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| 00-1211 | Water Quality Criteria: Notice of Draft Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen (Saltwater): Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras | Notice | Pursuant to section 304(a)(1) of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Environmental Protection Agency announces the availability of a draft document titled, Draft Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen (Saltwater): Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. The EPA is considering using the values presented in this document as its recommended national 304(a) criteria for dissolved oxygen in saltwater. These 304(a) criteria would provide recommended guidance values for States, Territories, and authorized Tribes to use in adopting water quality criteria to protect aquatic life from acute and chronic effects of low dissolved oxygen. Under the CWA, States, Territories, and Tribes are to adopt water quality criteria to protect designated uses. As the document is currently written, these water quality criteria would apply only to the Virginian Province (Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras), but with appropriate modifications, they may be applicable to other regions. While these criteria would constitute EPA's scientific recommendations regarding ambient concentrations of dissolved oxygen that protect saltwater aquatic life, these criteria are not regulations; thus they would not impose legally binding requirements on EPA, States, Territories, Tribes, or the public, and might not apply to a particular situation based upon the circumstances. State, Territories, and authorized Tribes retain the discretion to adopt, where appropriate, other scientifically defensible water quality standards that differ from these recommendations. EPA may change these 304(a) criteria in the future. These draft criteria were under development prior to the Agency's revision and implementation of its current processes for notice of data availability and criteria development (see Federal Register, December 10, 1998, 63 FR 68354 and in the EPA document titled, National Recommended Water Quality--Correction EPA 822-Z-99-001, April 1999). As indicated in the December 10, 1998 FR document, the Agency believes it is important to provide the public with an opportunity to submit scientific information on draft criteria, even though we are not required to invite nor respond to specific issues. Therefore, EPA will review and consider significant scientific information submitted by the public that might not have otherwise been identified during development of these criteria, or in the external peer review. The external peer review comments and EPA's responses are available in the Water Docket. After review of the submitted significant scientific information, EPA will publish a revised document, or publish a document indicating its decision not to revise the document. This draft document has been approved for publication by the Office of Science and Technology, Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute endorsement or recommendation for use. | 2000-01-19 | 2000 | 1 | https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2000/01/19/00-1211/water-quality-criteria-notice-of-draft-ambient-water-quality-criteria-for-dissolved-oxygen-saltwater | https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2000-01-19/pdf/00-1211.pdf | Environmental Protection Agency | 145 | Pursuant to section 304(a)(1) of the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Environmental Protection Agency announces the availability of a draft document titled, Draft Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen (Saltwater): Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. The... |