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Feds Allow Wisconsin Tribe to Set Water Standards
Federal environmental officials have agreed to let a Wisconsin tribe set its own water quality standards.
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Posted Monday, July 6, 2009 --- 3:10 p.m.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Federal environmental officials have agreed to let a Wisconsin tribe set its own water quality standards.
The Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa will set quality standards for state discharge permits issued for on-reservation facilities such as sewage plants. The state must follow the tribe's standards when it issues permits to facilities upstream of the reservation, since any discharges would flow onto the reservation.
The standards will be subject to U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approval.
Two other Wisconsin tribes -- the Sokaogon Chippewa and the Lac Du Flambeau -- have their own standards.
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