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Materials for Public Listening Session - Stakeholder Input on Public Notice for CSOs in the Great Lakes

Materials for the Public Listening Session on September 14, 2016, in Chicago, Illinois.

EPA is holding the Public Listening Session to obtain information from the public to help inform development of a new regulation establishing requirements for public notification of combined sewer overflow discharges in the Great Lakes.

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Handout - Public Notification of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) in the Great Lakes (PDF)(2 pp, 98 K)
Introduction and Background Presentation - Public Notification of Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) (PDF)(19 pp, 944 K)