Virginia's Water Quality Control Program for Loggers

1977 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 2-3
Author(s):  
C. M. Pennock
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Control Program ◽  
Water Quality Control ◽  
Quality Control Program ◽  
Voluntary Compliance ◽  
Logging Industry ◽  
Federal Water Pollution Control ◽  
Probable Impact

Abstract In 1976 a series of meetings was held throughout Virginia for the purpose of informing loggers about the federal Water Pollution Control Act and the probable impact on the logging industry. Emphasis was placed on voluntary compliance with good management practices to avoid regulatory programs. Increased logging road stabilization is the first tangible result.

Applying the Clean Water Law to Southeast Forestry

1978 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 74-77
Author(s):  
August J. Dornbusch ◽  
Albert B. Herndon
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Water Quality ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Water Law ◽  
Clean Water ◽  
Voluntary Programs ◽  
Reporting Systems ◽  
Federal Water Pollution Control ◽  
Key Factor

Abstract Control of any water pollution from forest management is required by the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (PL 92-500). Voluntary programs are acceptable in the Southeast. Plans developed under Section 208 of the Act must include best land management practices, priorities, implementation schedules, evaluation programs and reporting systems. A key factor is the assessment of types and locations of any water quality problems. Failure of voluntary plans after trial for a number of years may require regulatory approaches to be taken.

“You Alone Have the Answer”: Lake Erie and Federal Water Pollution Control Policy, 1960–1972

1996 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 440-469
Author(s):  
Terence Kehoe
Keyword(s):  
Water Pollution ◽  
Pollution Control ◽  
Lake Erie ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Control Policy ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Sources Of Pollution ◽  
Primary Responsibility ◽  
Federal Water Pollution Control ◽  
The 1960S

Prior to the 1960s, state governments retained primary responsibility for the regulation of water pollution. State officials emphasized voluntarism and close, informal cooperation between regulators and representatives from the major industrial and municipal sources of pollution. During the 1960s and early 1970s, growing dissatisfaction with state pollution control performance in Congress and at the local level acted as the driving force behind the gradual federal preemption of state authority. In the Lake Erie Basin, local advocates of tougher and more effective water pollution regulation looked to the federal government for relief and made common cause with sympathetic members of Congress.

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