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... Committee on Clean Water Act Implementation Across the Mississippi River Basin was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and it offers strategic advice and priorities for addressing MRB and NGOM water quality management and improvements (see Box 1-1 for the committee's full statement of task)
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... These sections are: USDA's Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative; Numeric Water Quality Criteria for the northern Gulf of Mexico; A Basinwide Strategy for Nutrient Management and Water Quality; and, Stronger Leadership and Collaboration. USDA's Mississippi River Basin Healthy Watersheds Initiative In 2009, the U.S.
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... A Basinwide Strategy for Nutrient Management and Water Quality Although there have been some federal and state efforts to coordinate nutrient management and related water quality programs across the Mississippi River basin, interagency efforts to date have not produced a rigorous, action-oriented plan for reducing nutrient loadings. There is no comprehensive MRB-NGOM program that includes, for example, interim water quality goals to be achieved over a specified time horizon, nutrient load allocations across the basin's tributary watersheds, a plan for more systematic data collection and analysis, or a framework of accountability to ensure achievement of goals and deadlines.
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... The EPA, its partner federal agencies, the Congress, the Administration, and the Mississippi River basin states should provide a stronger, more coordinated commitment in order to develop long-term, adaptive, collaborative actions for effectively addressing water quality problems across the MRB and into the NGOM.


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