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10 - Promise and Performance

State Choice and National Water Quality Goals

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2022

John C. Morris
Affiliation:
Auburn University
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This chapter provides a discussion of the conclusions and implications of this research. In many respects, the assumption of initial state interest and resources sufficiency has not been met, although many states have been able to overcome their initial deficiencies in the intervening years. While most observers conclude that the Water Quality Act has served to improve water quality in the nation, the lack of a valid, reliable, and agreed-upon measure of state water quality hampers the ability to reach specific conclusions about the overall effects of the Water Quality Act. The conclusions also highlight the tensions between the financial and environmental elements of the Clean Water State Revolving Fund program, as well as tensions between national environmental goals and state choice in program implementation.

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Clean Water Policy and State Choice
Promise and Performance in the Water Quality Act
, pp. 224 - 234
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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