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Introduction to the TMDL Program: Current Status and Future Plans
Don Brady, EPA Office of Water
Congressional Request for the Study—Senate
John Pemberton and Peter Washburn, Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works
Congressional Request for the Study—House
Susan Bodine, House Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment
March 2000 GAO Report on Status of Water Quality Data
Patricia McClure, General Accounting Office
Environmental Perspective on the TMDL Program and this Study
Nina Bell, Northwest Environmental Advocates
State Perspectives on the TMDL Program and this Study
Robbi Savage, Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators
Shawn McGrath, Western Governors' Association
EPA's Pressing Science Issues for the TMDL Program
Lee Mulkey and Tom Barnwell, EPA Office of Research and Development
TMDL Case Studies
Bruce Zander, EPA Region VIII
Gail Mitchell, Bob Ambrose, and Tim Wool, EPA Region IV
1 The NRC committee does not necessarily agree with all the comments or testimony given but all were taken into account.
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Water Environment Research Foundation Support of TMDL Research
Dean Carpenter, Water Environment Research Foundation
Paul Freedman, Limno-Tech, Inc.
Kent Thornton, FTN & Associates
Stakeholder Presentations
Fred Andes, Federal Water Quality Coalition
Doug Barton, National Council of the Paper Industry for Air and Stream Improvement
Richard Bozek, Edison Electric Institute
Faith Burns, National Cattleman's Association
John Cowan, National Milk Producers Federation
Cynthia Goldberg, Gulf Restoration Network
Jay Jensen, National Association of State Foresters
Norman LeBlanc, Association of Metropolitan Sewerage Agencies
Mike Murray, National Wildlife Federation
Rick Parrish, Southern Environmental Law Center
Rob Reash, American Electric Power and the Utility Water Act Group
Dave Salmonsen, American Farm Bureau Federation