Guidance Specifying Management Measures for Sources of Nonpoint Pollution in Coastal Waters

Chapter 1: Introduction

I. Background

A. Nonpoint Source Pollution
1. What Is Nonpoint Source Pollution?
2. National Efforts to Control Nonpoint Pollution

B. Coastal Zone Management
C. Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990

1. Background and Purpose of the Amendments
2. State Coastal Nonpoint Pollution Control Programs
3. Management Measures Guidance

D. Program Implementation Guidance

II. Development of the Management Measures Guidance

A. Process Used to Develop This Guidance
B. Scope and Contents of This Guidance
1. Categories of Nonpoint Sources Addressed
2. Relationship Between This Management Measures Guidance for Coastal Nonpoint Sources and NPDES Permit Requirements for Point Sources
3. Contents of This Guidance

III. Technical Approach Taken in Developing This Guidance

A. The Nonpoint Source Pollution Process
1. Source Control
2. Delivery Reduction

B. Management Measures as Systems
C. Economic Achievability of the Proposed Management Measures

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