Nutrient Work Group
Planning, Prevention, and Assistance Division
Telephone: (406) 444-6697 | Fax (406) 444-6836
Staff Contacts: Eric Urban (406) 444-5320, Mike Suplee (406) 444-0831
The Nutrient Work Group is an advisory work group, convened by the Department of Environmental Quality, representing publicly owned and privately owned point sources of pollution, nonpoint sources of pollution, and other interested parties that will advise the department on the base numeric nutrient standards, the development of temporary nutrient criteria, and the implementation of those standards and criteria together with associated economic impacts as required by §75-5-313, MCA.
Nutrient Work Group Meeting
Next Meeting
July 9, 2013 at 1:00 p.m.
Room 111, Metcalf Building
1520 E. Sixth Ave
Helena, MT
Next Meeting
June 24, 2013
1:30-4:30 p.m.
Room 239/240, Metcalf Building
1520 E. Sixth Ave, Helena, MT
Next Meeting
The next meeting date is to be determined.
- NEW - Draft Rule Package
- Comments on Draft Numeric Nutrient Standards Package
- Circular DEQ-12 (version 6.6)
- Nutrient Standards Rules (version 7.7)
- Post 2016 Flow Chart (version 6
- Substantial and Widespread Economic Analysis for Individual Nutrient Standards Variances AND Guidelines for Determining an Individual Variance Based on Water Quality Modeling (version 7.3)
- 2012 Report to the Environmental Quality Council on Progress toward Numeric Nutrient Standards for Montana's Surface Waters
- Carrying Out a Substantial and Widespread Economic Analysis for Individual Nutrient Standards Variances AND Guidelines for Determining if a Waste Water Treatment Facility Can Remain at a Previous General Variance Concentration
- 2010 Report to the Environmental Quality Council on Progress toward Numeric Nutrient Standards for Montana's Surface Waters
- Technical Documents Related to Nutrient Criteria
- EPA Current Status: State Adoption of Numeric Nutrient Standards
- EPA Water Quality Criteria for Nitrogen and Phosphorus Pollution
- EPA Memo on Substantial Economic Costs Demonstrations
- December 29, 2011 Letter to EPA concerning MT DEQ's plans to adopt numeric nutrient water quality standards
- January 3, 2012 Letter to MT DEQ from EPA concerning the initial review of MT's draft analysis and assessment to support temporary variances for public and private entities from MT's draft criteria for wadeable streams
- Demonstration of Substantial and Widespread Economic Impacts to Montana that would Result if Base Numeric Nutrient Standards had to be Met by Entities in the Private Sector in 2011/2012
- Demonstration of Substantial and Widespread Economic Impacts to Montana That Would Result if Base Numeric Nutrient Standards had to be Met in 2011/2012
