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Water quality trading assessment handbook: can water quality trading advance your watershed's goals?
| Author: |
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency |
| Date: |
2004 |
| Periodical: |
Contract 68-W-02-048. Washington, D.C. 110 p |
| Link: |
http://www.epa.gov/owow/watershed/trading/handbook/docs/national-wqt-handbook-2004.pdf
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| Abstract: |
This Handbook will help you assess the environmental, economic, and technical factors that will influence the ability to create and sustain a water quality trading market. The purpose of this Handbook is to help assess if water quality trading is worth pursuing in your watershed. Developing a trading program can be an ambitious undertaking with few short cuts to the work that needs to be done. Water quality trading also has many connections to other programs and processes, such as TMDLs and NPDES permits, likely requiring time and resource commitments from people in those areas. Thus, before embarking on the effort to develop a watershed scale trading program it is helpful to assess whether threshold conditions for trading exist. |
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