EPA Expands Conditions for 401 Water Quality Certifications

Final 2023 CWA Section 401 Water Quality Certification ...

The final 2023 Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification Improvement Rule (2023 Rule) went into effect on November 27, 2023.

EPA Expands Conditions for 401 Water Quality Certifications ... The Clean Water Act (CWA) section 401 Water Quality Certification (401 WQC) is a ...

EPA Finalizes Section 401 Water Quality Certification Improvement ...

Prefiling meeting requests. · Request for certification package. · Reasonable period of time. · Expanding the scope of review for Section 401 water ...

Q&A for 2023 CWA Section 401 Water Quality Certification ...

It does not impose any legally binding requirements on the EPA, states, territories, Tribes, other Federal agencies, or the regulated community.

Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification ...

Pursuant to this Executive order, EPA reviewed the 2020 Rule. EPA identified substantial concerns with several of its provisions that were in ...

EPA's Final Clean Water Act 401 Rule, Reinstating 1971 Approach ...

The 2023 Rule returns much broader authority to Certification Agencies to review, condition, and reject water quality certifications for federal ...

EPA Rules on CWA Section 401 Water Quality Certifications by States

FERC)[2], the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA") has finalized new rules[3] that revise and replace its 2020 regulatory requirements ...

EPA's New 401 Certification Rule: Expanded Scope and ...

Continuing the recent practice of promulgating regulations and then promptly replacing them, EPA's “CWA Section 401 Water Quality Certification ...

Change is Afoot: EPA Revisiting Section 401 Program

CWA Section 401 vests states and Tribes with responsibility to certify that a discharge is consistent with water quality requirements before certain federal ...

EPA Issues New Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality ...

EPA's final rule expands state and tribal powers to grant or deny water quality certifications for large infrastructure projects like pipelines and dams over ...

USEPA issues new 401 Water Quality Certification Rule

This 2023 Rule revises and clarifies the prior 401 Water Quality Certification requirements passed in 2020. That Trump-era rule limited the ...

EPA Proposes to Expand State and Tribal Authority Over Section ...

Any conditions imposed on Section 401 water quality certifications become conditions of the federal permit or license. Conditions may ...

Pre-publication version of 2023 CWA Section 401 Water Quality ...

regulations, EPA addressed water quality certifications ... section 401 is ambiguous regarding the scope of certification and conditions, and EPA ...

EPA Proposes New Rules Governing Section 401 Water Quality ...

Expanding the scope of review for Section 401 water quality certifications. The Proposed Rule modifies 40 C.F.R. § 121.3 to require certifying ...

FERC Issues Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Conform to EPA's ...

... 401 water quality certification or waiver thereof. Section 401 of the CWA provides that a federal agency may not issue a federal license or ...

Overview of CWA Section 401 Certification | US EPA

Under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act (CWA), a federal agency may not issue a permit or license to conduct any activity that may result ...

Clean Water Act Section 401 Water Quality Certification ...

Pursuant to this Executive order, EPA reviewed the 2020 Rule. EPA identified substantial concerns with a number of its provisions that were at ...

EPA's New Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule Limits ...

EPA's regulations establish a process for tribes to apply for TAS for purposes of establishing water quality standards and providing Section 401 water quality ...

Opportunity to comment on Clean Water Act (CWA) Section 401 ...

The EPA will act on this certification request by either: (1) granting certification; (2) granting certification with conditions; (3) denying ...

Section 401 of the federal Clean Water Act provides states with the ...

agencies to expand their 401 ... jurisdiction, mitigation requirements, and other conditions of 401 certification. ... EPA webpage on Water Quality and 401 ...