Clean Water ActTotal Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs)

• “The objective of the TMDL Program is to restore and maintain the beneficial uses (drinking water, recreation, aquatic life, etc.) of impaired or threatened water bodies in Texas.”

• Administered by TNRCC with oversight by USEPA (Dallas)

• Only TMDL currently underway in Big Cypress basin is in Big Cypress below Lake Bob Sandlin and Lake O’ the Pines

(segments 403 and 402)

• TNRCC information on TMDLs in Texas is available at:

http://www.tnrcc.state.tx.us/water/quality/tmdl/index.html

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