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U.S. EPA Webinars on Three Draft Chapters of the WQS Handbook

Webinars to provide information on three draft chapters of the WQS Handbook on Designated Uses, Antidegradation, and WQS Variances. The EPA released these draft chapters on December 12, 2024 for a 90-day public comment period.

About this Event

On December 12, 2024, the EPA released three draft chapters of the WQS Handbook on Designated Uses, Antidegradation, and WQS Variances, for a 90-day public comment period. The WQS Handbook provides a plain language discussion of the relevant regulatory and statutory requirements and the EPA’s recommendations for how states, authorized Tribes and U.S. territories can develop and implement WQS consistent with both. The EPA has updated Chapter 2 on Designated Uses, Chapter 4 on Antidegradation, and developed a new chapter on WQS Variances to include the EPA’s most recent WQS programmatic policy and guidance to implement the regulation at 40 CFR Part 131.

The EPA is holding three informational webinars during the public comment period to provide an overview of the chapters and an opportunity for participants to ask clarifying questions after having read the chapters. Each webinar will cover the same material.

Register:

  • General Public Webinar: February 4, 2025, 12pm ET to 2pm ET
  • States and U.S. Territories Only Webinar: February 4, 2025, 2:30pm ET to 4:30pm ET
  • Tribes Only Webinar: February 6, 2025, 12pm ET to 2pm ET

Registration will close at 5pm ET on Friday, January 31st.

The webinars will not be an opportunity to provide comments. All comments must be submitted through the Docket. Visit the EPA’s WQS Handbook webpage to review the three draft chapters and for information on how to provide comments.


If you cannot speak, read, write, or understand the English language, please email ICF, contractor to the U.S. EPA, at EPAwebinars@icf.com by January 21, 2025 to request interpretation or translation services free of charge.

Captioning will be provided for this event. If you are a person with disabilities and need reasonable modifications and/or auxiliary aids and services, please email ICF, contractor to the U.S. EPA, at EPAwebinars@icf.com by January 21, 2025 to request services free of charge.

The EPA will use your registration information solely for this event. We will not share your information with any third party. If you prefer not to use this online tool for registration, please contact ICF, contractor to the U.S. EPA, at EPAwebinars@icf.com.


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