The Clean Water Act Tmdl Program: Law, Policy, and Implementation

Houck (law, Tulane U.) guides people responsible for a company's compliance with water quality regulations through the new landscape as the technological standards used by the US Environmental Protection Agency for the past quarter century are being replaced by measures of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) under pressure from citizens groups. He includes a history of water quality regulation since 1948. He does not provide an index.

Oliver A. Houck is a Professor of Law at Tulane University where he directs the Environmental Law Program. A graduate of Harvard College and Georgetown Law Center, prior to joining the Tulane faculty in 1981, he was an Assistant U.S. Attorney in Washington, D.C. and then General Counsel to the National Wildlife Federation, also in Washington. He has served on the Board of Directors of the Environmental Law Institute and the Defenders of Wildlife and on the Litigation Review Committee of the Environmental Defense Fund. He has also served on the Environmental Advisory Board of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and on two panels of the National Academy of Sciences.