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| 00-19373 | National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System-Regulations Addressing Cooling Water Intake Structures for New Facilities | Proposed Rule | Today's proposed rule would implement section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) for new facilities that use water withdrawn from rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, oceans or other waters of the U.S. for cooling water purposes. The proposed rule would establish national requirements applicable to the location, design, construction, and capacity of cooling water intake structures at new facilities. The proposed national requirements would minimize the adverse environmental impact associated with the use of these structures. Today's proposed rule would establish location, design, construction, and capacity requirements that reflect the best technology available for minimizing adverse environmental impact from the cooling water intake structure based on the placement of the intake structure and the water body type. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposes to group surface water into four categories--freshwater rivers and streams, lakes and reservoirs, estuaries and tidal rivers, and oceans--and to establish requirements for cooling water intake structures located in each water body type. In general, the closer the intake structure is to areas that are most sensitive or biologically productive, the more stringent the requirements proposed to minimize adverse environmental impact. Under this proposal, EPA would set performance requirements and would not mandate the use of specific technologies. EPA expects that this proposed regulation would reduce impingement and entrainment at new facilities over the next 20 years. Today's proposed rule would establish requirements that would help preserve ecosystems in close proximity to cooling water intake structures at new facilities. EPA has considered the potential benefits of the proposal and the preamble discusses them in qualitative terms. Expected benefits include a decrease in expected mortality or injury to aquatic organisms that would otherwise be subject to entrainment into cooling water systems or impingement against screens or other devices at the entrance of cooling water intake structures. The proposed regulatory requirements also could reduce adverse impact on threatened and endangered species. | 2000-08-10 | 2000 | 8 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/08/10/00-19373/national-pollutant-discharge-elimination-system-regulations-addressing-cooling-water-intake | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2000-08-10/pdf/00-19373.pdf | Environmental Protection Agency | 145 | Today's proposed rule would implement section 316(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA) for new facilities that use water withdrawn from rivers, streams, lakes, reservoirs, estuaries, oceans or other waters of the U.S. for cooling water purposes. The... |