Bad River Band approved to run water requirements plan
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Category: WaterType: News
Source: EPA
Date: Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
No. 09-OPA120
(Chicago, Ill. - July 2, 2009) E.P.A. has granted authority to the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa Indians to run its own water quality requirements plan on its northern Wisconsin reservation. This authority is for the requirements programs only. The tribe will have to submit the actual water quality requirements developed to E.P.A. for another round of review and approval.
Since 1989, 45 tribes in the U.S. have been authorized to administer the water quality requirements program. These include 5 tribes in E.P.A. Region 5: the Sokaogon Chippewa Community (Mole Lake), the Lac du Flambeau Band of Chippewa and now the Bad River Band of Chippewa in Wisconsin; and the Fond du Lac Band of Chippewa and the Grand Portage Band of Chippewa in Minnesota.
The band's application and the decision documents will be posted on EPA's Web site:
http://www.epa.gov/region5/water/wqs5/wqstribes.htm
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