Regulacje i polityka gospodarcza · 17/12/1998

Great Lakes Dredged Material Testing and Evaluation Manual

This document announces the availability of the testing manual entitled ``Great Lakes Dredged Material Testing and Evaluation Manual'' (Great Lakes Manual). The Great Lakes Manual was prepared by an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)/Army Corps of Engineers (CE) workgroup comprised of staff with scientific and/or programmatic expertise related to Great Lakes dredged material discharge activities. This document supplements the manual entitled ``Evaluation of Dredged Material Proposed for Discharge in Waters of the U.S.-Testing Manual (Inland National Manual), EPA-823-B-98-004,'' which was finalized in February 1998. The Great Lakes Manual contains more specific guidance than the National Manual specifically for the Great Lakes system, including detailed bioassay test protocols. The Great Lakes Manual was noticed for comment in the Federal Register on December 19, 1994. Both the draft Inland Testing Manual and the Great Lakes Manual were issued pursuant to the provisions of section 404(b)(1) of the Clean Water Act and 40 CFR part 230.