On February 1, 2013, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) partially approved and partially disapproved Nevada’s 2008-2010 303(d) list of waters requiring a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). EPA approved waters Nevada identified as requiring a TMDL, and disapproved the omission of 19 waters EPA determined to be impaired due to mercury in fish tissue. EPA is taking action to add the 19 identified impaired waters.
EPA is starting a public comment period during which interested parties are invited to submit written comments on EPA’s action to add the identified 19 waters. The partial approval / partial disapproval letter and a link to the Nevada’s 2008 – 2010 Integrated Report and 303(d) List of Impaired Waters are provided below.
All interested persons wishing to submit comments on EPA’s action to add waters to Nevada’s 2008-2010 list of impaired waters may do so in writing on or before March 11, 2013, 5pm, to Susan Keydel at the email address or US Mail address below:
Susan Keydel (keydel.susan@epa.gov)
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
75 Hawthorne St, WTR-2
San Francisco, CA 94105
Tel. (415) 972-3106
After considering the public comments received, U.S. EPA will make any necessary adjustments to its decision and transmit the final list to the state. EPA will prepare a document summarizing how public comments were considered in the final EPA decisions. The summary of comments and responses will be available at this website when the 2008-2010 303(d) list for Nevada is finalized (see link number 2 below).
Click here for an Adobe (pdf) file of the Public Notice (with hyper-links to the documents). Also, additional websites are shown below.
- EPA’s Region 9 Public Comment announcement (see lower center of web page): http://www.epa.gov/region9/newsevents/
- EPA’s Monitoring, Assessment and TMDL web page describing EPAs action, and providing links to EPAs letter and enclosure, and NV’s Integrated Report and 303(d) list: http://www.epa.gov/region9/water/tmdl/nevada.html
If you have any questions please contact:
John Heggeness
Surface Water Quality Standards and Monitoring
Bureau of Water Quality Planning
Nevada Division of Environmental Protection
901 S. Stewart Street, Suite 4001
Carson City, Nevada 89701
ph (775) 687-9449
fax (775) 687-9561
jheggene@ndep.nv.gov