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Section 404 of the Clean Water Act

The Ecological and Hydrological Significance of Ephemeral and Intermittent Streams in the Arid and Semi-arid American Southwest

EPA's Office of Research and Development and the USDA Agricultural Research Service collaborated on the publication of this report. The report synthesizes current knowledge of the ecology and hydrology of ephemeral and intermittent streams in the Southwest.

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