In this resolution, ECOS supports the SRFs; encourages identification of financing approaches that help communities make sustainable decisions for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure investment; supports leveraging opportunities across federal, state, local and private authorities to make more resources available to communities; supports efforts to prioritize efficient, affordable, and timely awards to distressed communities; supports…
Policy Documents
Resolution 07-8 On the Need to Ensure that Up-to-Date, Protective National Ambient Air Quality Standards and Implementation Rules are Timely Promulgated and Implemented
This resolution urges EPA to ensure that NAAQS reflect current scientific information; urges EPA to set all NAAQS at levels that provide an adequate margin of safety to public health; urges EPA to work with states to identify DIP process improvements; and encourages EPA to better align compliance dates for rules that reduce the same…
Resolution 04-3: Small Community Challenges
This resolution requests that the federal government work with state and local governments to address current and future small community drinking water and wastewater requirements and to assist small communities in managing their regulatory requirements; and that federal funding for small communities be directed to states to provide small communities the technical and compliance resources…
Resolution 08-3: State Delegation of Clean Water Act Section 404 Permit Program
In this resolution, ECOS states its support of delegation of Section 404 responsibilities to states; encourages development of clear guidance for states and tribes seeking to assume the 404 program; and encourages federal government support of state assumption of 404 programs including providing funding for states that assume the program.
Resolution 08-9: Phasing Out the Sale and Installation of Lead Wheel Weights
Through this resolution, ECOS requests that EPA initiate regulatory action to address lead hazards associated with lead wheel balancing weights; requests stakeholders take actions to phaseout the manufacture and use of lead wheel weights in the US; and recommends that federal agencies phase out their use of lead wheel weights.
Resolution 08-10: Strengthening the State-EPA Partnership Including a Continued Commitment to NEPPS
In this resolution, ECOS reaffirms support for the principles in the original 1995 NEPPS Agreement and the 2015 Renewal of Commitment to NEPPS; commits the states and urges EPA to engage on implementing improvements to the state-EPA partnership; and urges EPA to revitalize core components of NEPPS.
Resolution 11-1: Objection to U.S. EPA Imposition of Interim Guidance, Interim Rules, Draft Policy, and Reinterpretation Policy
Through this resolution, ECOS states its believe that each state reserves the right to use or refrain from using guidance as part of its environmental regulatory effort; that EPA should eliminate requiring compliance by states with guidance; urges EPA not to use guidance as a substitute for regulations; and that states object to EPA using…
Resolution 11-2: Respectful Use of Data
In this resolution, ECOS urges EPA to provide advance notice to states prior to the scheduled release of round datasets; urges EPA to test new reporting tools with states in a closed environments; urges EPA to establish a prenotification process that alerts states to unscheduled releases of non-routine, unverified datasets; and encourages that raw data…
Resolution 10-7: Retention of Clean Air Act Waiver of California Emissions Standards and State Adoption of California Standards
In this resolution, ECOS finds that states must be allowed to exercise their discretion to regulate pollutants within their borders and to develop standards as or more stringent than federal regulations and urges Congress to retain and not limit California’s authority to adopt or enforce emissions standards and any state’s ability to adopt California’s standards.…
Resolution 17-3: On the Value of Supplemental Environmental Projects
This resolution encourages the use of SEPs by state and EPA to respond to environmental harm and to invigorate communities.
