The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently proposed a new rule that would institute federal baseline water quality standards for the waters on over 250 Tribal lands throughout the country.
Water quality standards are used to control pollution discharges through the Clean Water Act’s permitting systems, and to identify and restore polluted waters. Yet today, the United States is home to over 300 Tribes with reservations, but only 47 have EPA-approved water quality standards.
That is why we are urging EPA to extend the same Clean Water Act safeguards that exist in the rest of the United States to Tribal lands. But we only have a few more days left to raise our voices
