Water quality certification files, <1969>-[ongoing].

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Water quality certification files, <1969>-[ongoing].

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The Division of Water Pollution Control develops and implements programs to prevent or clean-up the pollution of surface amd ground water in Massachusetts. The federal Water Pollution Control Act (PL 92-500, s 401, as amended) requires any applicant for a federal license or permit who is seeking to conduct any activity which may result in a discharge into the waters of a state to obtain a certification from the state's water pollution control agency that the proposed discharge will not violate applicable federal or state discharge limitations or water quality standards; files are created in accordance with MGLA c 21, s 42 (St 1966, c 685, s 1) to certify such projects.

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Massachusetts. Division of Water Pollution Control

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State responsibility for water pollution control has been exercised successively by the State Board of Health (1886-1914), the State Department of Health (1914-1919), and until 1975 by the Department of Public Health, specifically from 1945 by its Division of Sanitary Engineering; also since 1966 by the Division of Water Pollution Control, established in the Department of Natural Resources and transferred to 1974 to the Department of Environmental Quality Engineering (Department of Environmental...