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The third
quarter updates to fiscal year 2018 Intended Use Plans (IUPs) for the
Clean Water SRF and the Drinking Water SRF are now available for public review
and comment at the following locations:
Clean Water SRF
Drinking Water SRF
Public
comments are welcome. Draft quarterly project lists are also available
for review.
A
public hearing is scheduled for Thursday, November 9,
2017 in the Wallace State Office Building, 502 E. 9th Street, Des Moines, IA. The meeting
will be held in the DNR’s 2nd floor West conference room at 10:00 a.m. Participants should
check in at the 4th floor DNR reception desk. Written comments will be accepted through Thursday, November 16, 2017. It is anticipated that the Iowa Environmental
Protection Commission will act on the IUPs at their December 19, 2017 meeting.
Questions
and written comments should be directed to Patti Cale-Finnegan, DNR SRF
Coordinator, patti.cale-finnegan@dnr.iowa.gov.
From EPA’s
Office of Water, 11/2/2017
“The Hypoxia Task Force is releasing its 2017 Report to Congress on
the actions the federal, state, and tribal members have taken toward the
goal of reducing nitrogen and phosphorus pollution in the
Mississippi/Atchafalaya River Basin and shrinking the size of the Gulf of
Mexico hypoxic zone.
The
Report to Congress:
- Discusses
the environmental, economic, and social impacts of Gulf of Mexico hypoxia and
harmful algal blooms;
- Provides
information about the size of the hypoxic zone since 1985 and sources of
nutrient loading in the MARB;
- Describes
the progress of state nutrient reduction strategy development and implementation;
- Discusses
federal agency programs that support state implementation of nutrient reduction
strategies;
- Evaluates
and highlights lessons learned by presenting broader HTF successes and
successful state projects; and
- Focuses on recent HTF efforts to track the
environmental results of state strategy implementation.
To
learn more about the Hypoxia Task Force, visit: https://www.epa.gov/ms-htf.”
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