2022-26240: Water Quality Standards Regulatory Revisions To Protect Tribal Reserved Rights
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing revisions to the Federal Clean Water Act (CWA) water quality standards (WQS) regulation to clarify and prescribe how WQS must protect aquatic and aquatic-dependent resources reserved to tribes through treaties, statutes, executive orders, or other sources of Federal law, where applicable.
The agency’s own summary, as published.
What this changes
Amends 1 part of the Code of Federal Regulations — the standing rules this notice rewrites.
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