On January 10, 2024, the Western States Water Council sent a letter of support and recommendations for the Good Samaritan Remediation of Abandoned Hardrock Mines Act (S. 2781) to Senate Leadership, and to the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. WSWC January...
On October 13, 2023, the comment period closed for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule on Clean Water Act Section 404 Tribal and State Program Regulation (88 FR 55276). The proposed rule noted that it “would facilitate the process of obtaining...
On August 4, 2023, the public comment period ended for the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed rule on Federal Baseline Water Quality Standards (WQS) for Indian Reservations (88 FR 29496). The WSWC Submitted a comment letter based on Policy Position #490,...
On March 6, 2023, the comment period closed for the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed rulemaking, Water Quality Standards Regulatory Revisions to Protect Tribal Reserved Rights (87 FR 74361). Several states submitted comments to the docket, including Alaska,...
On August 8, 2022, the Council of State Governments-West (CSG-West) and the Western States Water Council (WSWC) submitted comments in the form of a letter to EPA Administrator Regan regarding EPA’s proposed rule to improve the Clean Water Act Section 401 state...
On July 28, WSWC sent two letters on abandoned mines to the Administration and to Congress. The first letter was addressed to Secretary Deb Haaland, Department of the Interior; Secretary Tom Vilsak, Department of Agriculture; and Administrator Michael Regan, EPA. It...