States still do not want to follow the law in writing Clean Water Act NPDES permits
The law is quite clear that National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System permits are supposed to have the more stringent limit of what can be done by every discharger of that class (the technology-based limit= TBEL) and what is necessary to protect the particular waters into which the pollution will flow (the water quality based effluent limit = WQBEL). 33 U.S.C. Section 1311(b)(1)(C). In order to eventually eliminate water pollution, all dischargers have to at least put i
