SSO Rule on Hold.

Underground Construction, May, 2001

The Bush Administration is still sitting on the proposed EPA rule on sanitary sewer overflows (SSO) which had been announced in the waning days of the Clinton administration and then pulled off the table by the Bush administration as part of its review of late-issuing Clinton proposals. Sharon Thomas, a spokeswoman for the Water Environment Federation, says the proposed rule is "in limbo." She thinks the EPA will wait until a new assistant administrator for water and a director of the office of water are named before taking a second look at the original proposal the Clinton EPA was poised to issue.

The proposed rule never appeared in the Federal Register. So although the EPA had already announced the rule, it is as if the proposed rule never existed. The story...

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