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EPA Proposed Baseline Water Quality Standards for Tribes

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May 5, 2023

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CWA

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EPA

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Proposed Rule

EPA proposed baseline water quality standards for over 250 federally recognized Tribes for the first time. These standards would cover water bodies on Indian reservations that do not have Clean Water Act standards, affecting over half a million people living on those reservations. Read EPA’s fact sheet on the proposed standards. Comments were due Aug. 3, 2023.