Gov. Baker announced legislation seeking federal delegation of water protection efforts
Channel: MassGovernor
Date: 2017-03-08

Continuing its commitment to protect the waters of the Commonwealth, the Baker-Polito Administration today filed An Act to Enable the Commonwealth’s Administration of the Massachusetts Pollutant Discharge Elimination System. The legislation will allow the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) to join forty-six other states in administering the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) for federal water quality protection.

More: http://www.mass.gov/governor/press-office/press-releases/fy2017/bill-seeks-federal-delegation-of-water-protection.html