Technical assistance and information/education programs are also eligible. Projects may include structural BMPs such as detention basins and filter strips, non-structural BMPs such as construction erosion control ordinances and setback zones to protect community water supply wells. 9 In this paper, I am to take EPA's three most sweeping pollution control statutesthe Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA)and spell out how. The program includes providing funding to these groups to implement projects that utilize cost-effective best management practices (BMPs) on a watershed scale. Federal/State Relations in the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, and RCRA: Does the Pattern Make Sense by William F. The purpose of Illinois EPA’s 319 program is to work cooperatively with units of local government and other organizations toward the mutual goal of protecting the water quality in Illinois through the control of NPS pollution. The Illinois EPA is the designated state agency in Illinois to receive 319 federal funds from U.S. Under Clean Air Act Section 111(B)(1)(A) of the Clean Air Act sic and to. Under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, NPS pollution control is largely voluntary and promotes practices to protect watersheds (all of the land that drains into a body of water such as a river, lake, wetland, or groundwater). approach used to regulate CAFO water pollution under the Clean Water Act, and. Waste Management Act, rules and regulations in force pursuant to the acts. EPA awards grants to states to assist them in implementing NPS management programs. (4) To act as the state water pollution, air pollution, and solid waste. Section 319 helps states address NPS pollution through the development of assessment reports adoption of management programs to control NPS pollution and implementation of those management programs.

Through Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, a NPS pollution control project might be coming to a river or lake near you! So, what’s Section 319 all about?Ĭongress enacted Section 319 of the Clean Water Act in 1987, establishing a national program to control NPS pollution. The Illinois Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking an active role to be part of the solution, not the pollution.

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