TMDLS Sample Clauses
The TMDLs (Total Maximum Daily Loads) clause defines the regulatory limits on the amount of specific pollutants that can be discharged into a waterbody from all sources, including point and nonpoint sources. In practice, this clause requires parties to comply with established pollutant limits set by environmental authorities, which may involve monitoring discharges, implementing best management practices, or adjusting operations to ensure compliance. Its core function is to protect water quality by ensuring that cumulative pollutant loads do not exceed levels that would impair the designated uses of the waterbody, thereby supporting regulatory compliance and environmental stewardship.
TMDLS. The overall goal is to identify waters not meeting water quality standards and to develop and implement effective clean-up programs (called Total Maximum Daily Loads or TMDLs) which will result in the attainment of standards. A 1997 legal settlement under the federal Clean Water Act Section 303d requires that Ecology complete more than 1500 TMDLs within the next 15 years. (These are in addition to the 197 previously completed.) Impaired water quality, known to occur in 636 water bodies, is caused by a variety of pollutants. A TMDL is required to address each significant pollutant in each impaired waterbody in order to set maximum pollution loading, legally limit pollutant discharges, implement pollution reduction programs, remove the water body from the list, and satisfy the legal settlement. EPA and Ecology are working collaboratively to implement the TMDL Settlement Agreement. EPA and Ecology will develop a strategy to fund the settlement agreement at an appropriate level. EPA and Ecology will jointly work on new approaches, such as landscape TMDLs, to more efficiently complete TMDLs. EPA and Ecology will develop effective working relationships with other state and federal agencies as well as local governments and special purpose districts. EPA and Ecology agree to complete activities within regulatory timeframes whenever possible, and to keep each other informed of expected completion dates.
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