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USEPA Affirms Water Transfers Not Require NPDES
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US Fed News Service, Including US State News
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June 9, 2008
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The American Water Works Association issued the following news release:
USEPA has adopted a long-awaited final rule declaring that routine transfers of water from one waterbody to another do not require Clean Water Act discharge permits.
The Water Transfer Rule (http://cfpub.epa.gov/npdes/home.cfm?program_id=41#water_transfer) codifies what started out as an agency interpretation that National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits are not required for transfers such as routing water through tunnels, channels, or natural stream courses for public water supplies, irrigation, power generation, flood control and environmental restoration.
AWWA backed the agency's interpretation, ...