2040-AF94 201904 Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions 2040 Office of Water OW 2000 Environmental Protection Agency EPA Withdrawal of Certain Federal Water Quality Criteria Applicable to Washington

On November 15, 2016, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved 45 human health criteria submitted by the State of Washington and issued a final rule that revised 144 additional human health criteria applicable to Washington's waters. EPA's final rule took effect on December 28, 2016. In response to an industry petition, the EPA is considering proposing to reverse its disapproval of some or all human health criteria submitted by Washington and withdraw its previous rulemaking relating to those criteria.

]]> Substantive, Nonsignificant First Time Published in The Unified Agenda Proposed Rule Stage No No Deregulatory Not Yet Determined 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq., Clean Water Act No NPRM 12/00/2019 Final Rule 02/00/2021 No No State Tribal Undetermined No No No Erica Fleisig 2040 Office of Water OW 202 566-1057 fleisig.erica@epa.gov 4305T, 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington DC 20460 Matthew Szelag 2012 Regional Office Seattle ROSEATTLE 907 271-1208 szelag.matthew@epa.gov EPA Region 10, Seattle WA 98101