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for "Water--Pollution--Laws and legislation"
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17505
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This article presents a history of legislative efforts to control stream pollution in North Carolina and current issues for its control and prevention.
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17512
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After recognition of the problem in 1893, numerous amendments, and studies, and a troubled beginning with the 1949 General Assembly, the Stream Pollution Bill finally passed in the House in 1951, reshaped to meet previous objections.
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33298
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As the House and Senate work to reauthorize the Clean Water Act, one of the amendments they will be considering is directed at maintaining water quality in estuaries. The Water Quality Renewal Act of 1985, contains an amendment put forth by North Carolina Representative Walter B. Jones to establish a program for maintaining estuarine water quality. The amendment gives special consideration to Albemarle Sound and Pamlico Bay in selecting estuaries of national significance.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 232, Dec/Jan 1986,
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33482
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The North Carolina legislature is expected to take action on legislation concerning use of phosphate detergent, low-level radioactive waste disposal, hazardous chemical waste treatment and hazardous waste orphan site cleanup, leaking underground storage tanks, landfill regulation, and pesticide contamination.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 243, Apr/May 1987,
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33581
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A study of water quality problems in the nation’s streams and rivers has revealed that the worst problems are caused by nonpoint source pollution. In response, the Environmental Protection Agency shifted responsibility for pollution control from federal to state programs. North Carolina has already made substantial progress in assessing water pollution problems, and is soliciting public comments on watershed priorities.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 248, Jan/Feb 1988,
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34143
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The Legislative Research Commission’s Committee on Watershed Protection has recommended to the 1989 General Assembly two bills aimed at providing reliable and safe water supplies. The bills outline standards for point and nonpoint pollution controls and propose the development of a state water supply plan.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 255, Jan/Feb 1989,
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34146
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The North Carolina Department of Natural Resources and Community Development may be scheduling public hearings on surface water reclassification requests in the first half of 1989. Some communities have requested a more protective classification of existing water supplies. Others have asked that surface waters now classified for recreation, trout, or other uses be reclassified so that they can be used for public water supplies.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 255, Jan/Feb 1989,
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34147
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To resolve disagreement about stringent limitations on toxic substances in North Carolina’s streams and rivers, the Environmental Management Commission appointed a committee to review the state’s proposed new in-stream water quality standards prior to taking the standards to public hearing. The dispute about state standards reflects widespread controversy about both analytical detection limits and public risk-benefit perception.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 255, Jan/Feb 1989,
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34168
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As required by Section 319 of the Water Quality Act of 1987, North Carolina has compiled and submitted two nonpoint source (NPS) assessment reports. The reports identify navigable waters of the state impacted by nonpoint source pollution, and lays out plans to control the pollution. The Division of Environmental Management applied to the Environmental Protection Agency for funds to implement water control programs.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 261, Jan/Feb 1990,
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34180
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The North Carolina Environmental Management Commission voted not to proceed to public hearings with a recommendation to weaken the state’s instream limit on dioxin. Dioxin is a by-product of chlorine bleaching which has caused cancer and reproductive abnormalities in laboratory animals. The vote came in response to a request by paper companies, which contend that new information indicates the cancer potency of dioxin is not as great as previously thought, and that they still cannot meet the effluent limitations the state standard imposes.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 265, Sept/Oct 1990,
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34181
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Recent revisions to rules governing the kinds and concentration of wastes industries may discharge to publicly owned treatment works are expected to have significant impacts on some industrial users in North Carolina, particularly in the larger metropolitan areas. New regulations will bring more industrial dischargers into pretreatment programs, and prohibit septage dumping into sewer lines.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 266, Nov/Dec 1990,
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34186
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In November, the Environmental Protection Agency promulgated final rules and regulations setting up the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater permitting program. The scope of the program was expanded to include unincorporated urban areas with 100,000 or more population which have separate storm sewer systems. This change means that Cumberland County joins Charlotte, Raleigh, Durham, Greensboro, and Winston-Salem on the list of North Carolina urban areas that must comply with stormwater control programs.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 267, Jan/Feb 1991,
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34216
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In February, the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission will consider a request to hold public hearings on proposed revisions of the state’s groundwater classifications and standards. Revisions to the rules would essentially ease clean-up requirements and abandon the state’s nondegradation policy.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 279, Jan/Feb 1993,
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34218
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On February 11, the North Carolina Environmental Management Commission approved holding public hearings on proposed changes to the rules that govern cleanup of contaminated groundwater. The proposed amendments represent a significant change from present practice since they would not always require the application of best available technology to restore groundwater to the level of the standard.
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 280, Mar/Apr 1993,
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34266
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Eighty-four more cities and urbanized counties in North Carolina and all construction sites larger than one acre will be required to get permits and manage storm water runoff under rules proposed by the United States Environmental Protection Agency in January. The Phase II Storm Water regulations will expand the national program to regulate storm water discharges as point sources under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES).
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Water Resources Research Institute News
(NoCar HD 1694 N8 N48x), Vol. Issue 310, Mar/Apr 1998,
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