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Article: EPA announces decision on listing of impaired water bodies.
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- June 14, 1989
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EPA ANNOUNCES DECISION ON LISTING OF IMPAIRED WATER BODIES
SAN FRANCISCO, June 13 /PRNewswire/ --The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today released for public review a listing of waterway pollution problems in California, Nevada, Hawaii, Guam, American Samoa and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. This concludes the first step of a new program designed to help clean up and protect waterways.
This national program required every state to survey its waterways and to develop lists of those that are not meeting water quality standards. For some of the waterways, the states then identified possible pollution sources and ...