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Regional Cooperation for Water Quality Improvement in Southwestern Pennsylvania (2005)
Water Science and Technology Board (WSTB)

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Regional Cooperation for Water Quality Improvement in Southwestern Pennsylvania

support of that process should not be interpreted as a strategy for indefinite postponement of major investment decisions. As long as the region is making good- faith efforts, as each step of the process is completed the region can make cost-effective decisions based on evaluation of the outcomes of prior actions. The committee believes that the involvement of key stakeholder groups should be a significant feature of each of the activities undertaken by the groups identified in this chapter. In addition, information that exists today, as well as that developed under all elements of CWARP, should be made readily available to the public. Among this information are sources of water quality problems, their significance, appropriate solutions, costs, and social impacts.

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EPA (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency). 1994. Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Control Policy. FRL-4732-7. Federal Register 59(75). Available on-line at http://www.epa.gov/npdes/pubs/owm0111.pdf. Accessed March 29, 2004.

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General Assembly of Pennsylvania. 2002. House Bill No. 2302 Amending Title 27 (Environmental Resources) of the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes. Chapter 31 Water Resources Planning. Available on-line at http://www.legis.state.pa.us/wu01/li/bi/bt/2001/0/hb2302p4697.htm. Accessed May 26, 2004.

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