ADVISORY/EPA To Hold Stakeholder Meeting to Discuss Nutrient Criteria.News/Assignment Editors ADVISORY...for Wednesday (March 15) --(BUSINESS WIRE) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), independent agency of the U.S. government, with headquarters in Washington, D.C. It was established in 1970 to reduce and control air and water pollution, noise pollution, and radiation and to ensure the safe handling and will hold a stakeholder meeting to discuss the Nutrient Criteria Initiative in Region 4 (Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina North Carolina, state in the SE United States. It is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean (E), South Carolina and Georgia (S), Tennessee (W), and Virginia (N). Facts and Figures Area, 52,586 sq mi (136,198 sq km). Pop. , South Carolina South Carolina, state of the SE United States. It is bordered by North Carolina (N), the Atlantic Ocean (SE), and Georgia (SW). Facts and Figures Area, 31,055 sq mi (80,432 sq km). Pop. (2000) 4,012,012, a 15. and Tennessee). There will be an overview of the national nutrient criteria process, followed by presentations and talks by regional scientists and stakeholders. The meeting is open to all persons who have an interest in the development of nutrient criteria in the Southeast. State water monitoring reports indicate that nutrients are the leading cause of water quality impairments of lakes and coastal waters and the second ranking cause of impairments of rivers and streams. Nutrients are linked to the large hypoxic hypoxic a state of hypoxia. hypoxic cell sensitizers compounds that selectively sensitize hypoxic tumor cells to the effects of radiation. zone in the Gulf of Mexico Noun 1. Gulf of Mexico - an arm of the Atlantic to the south of the United States and to the east of Mexico Golfo de Mexico Atlantic, Atlantic Ocean - the 2nd largest ocean; separates North and South America on the west from Europe and Africa on the east and to outbreaks of the toxic microorganism microorganism /mi·cro·or·gan·ism/ (-or´gah-nizm) a microscopic organism; those of medical interest include bacteria, fungi, and protozoa. Pfiesteria in several mid-Atlantic states Mid-At·lan·tic States See Middle Atlantic States. Noun 1. Mid-Atlantic states - a region of the eastern United States comprising New York and New Jersey and Pennsylvania and Delaware and Maryland U.S.A. . Although EPA EPA eicosapentaenoic acid. EPA abbr. eicosapentaenoic acid EPA, n.pr See acid, eicosapentaenoic. EPA, n. has provided states with useful information about nutrient overenrichment, we have not published water quality criteria documents for nutrients and most states do not have numeric water quality criteria for nutrients. This work is on a very fast track -- criteria for some regions are to be developed by the year 2000 and should be adopted into state water quality standards by the end of 2003. EPA also recognizes there is a great deal of variation in nutrient levels and nutrient responses throughout the country. This natural variation is due to differences in geology, climate and waterbody type. For these reasons, EPA will not be able to develop a single national concentration for nutrients. Instead, the agency will develop an extensive database that will allow us to describe a range of values for nutrients that reflects the geographic region of the country, the waterbody type and the designated use that the criteria will support. For further information regarding the meeting, interested parties may contact either Jim Harrison at 404/562-9271 or Ed Decker at 404/562-9383. Information is also available on the Nutrient Criteria Web page at www.epa.gov/ost/standards/nutrients/invitation.html.
WHO: U.S. EPA, Region 4
WHAT: Stakeholder Meeting to discuss information regarding the
Nutrient Criteria Initiative in Region 4, the national
nutrient criteria process and presentations and talks by
regional scientists and stakeholders.
WHEN: March 15, 2000
Registration 8:30 a.m. -- 9:30 a.m.
Meeting begins at 9 a.m.
WHERE: U.S. EPA/Atlanta Federal Center -- Conference Rooms B&C
61 Forsyth St.
Atlanta, Ga. 30303
404/562-9900
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