ENVIR ST 368 : 30.docx
30 Oct 2014
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Clean water act: discharge, of pollutants, from point source, to waters of the united states. All of the discharges of pollutants regulated under cwa, should be regulated in the same way up to what the minimum requirements are of the cwa. Fed gov"t under commerce clause can regulate and does regulate the waters, in so-called delegated states (like wi) through the enactment of the state law which is kind of a mirror image of the cw laws. States allowed to regulate in a more stringent manor than the us regulations. Wi almost same degree as requirements under the federal law exceptions in which the states exercise their authority to regulate more stringently can do because the congress has not preempted the states from doing that under the. The states may regulate in a more stringent action (401 water quality. In wi, what is regulated is the discharge of pollutants from point sources waters of the.
