Water quality trading (WQT) is an option for compliance with which regulation?

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Water quality trading (WQT) is an option for compliance with which regulation?

Water quality trading is a market-based method to meet water quality-based effluent limitations in NPDES permits. It lets a discharger satisfy its WQBEL by purchasing credits from other sources that have achieved additional pollutant reductions, ensuring the receiving water body continues to meet its water quality standards overall. While the permit itself governs the discharge and specifies the WQBEL, the trading mechanism is specifically used to comply with those water-quality-based limits. TMDLs set the overall allocations that can drive trading activity, but trading is not the regulation created by TMDLs, and SDWA governs drinking water, not this permit-based compliance.

Water quality trading is a market-based method to meet water quality-based effluent limitations in NPDES permits. It lets a discharger satisfy its WQBEL by purchasing credits from other sources that have achieved additional pollutant reductions, ensuring the receiving water body continues to meet its water quality standards overall. While the permit itself governs the discharge and specifies the WQBEL, the trading mechanism is specifically used to comply with those water-quality-based limits. TMDLs set the overall allocations that can drive trading activity, but trading is not the regulation created by TMDLs, and SDWA governs drinking water, not this permit-based compliance.

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