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Report to Congress on Integrated Plans and Municipality Profiles

This report describes EPA’s Integrated Planning Framework which lays out a flexible process and includes overarching principles and six essential elements that integrated plans should address. It also showcases 13 municipalities’ water quality challenges, integrated planning priorities, infrastructure investments and preliminary results.

  • EPA's 2021 Report to Congress on Integrated Plans (pdf) (16.23 MB)

Municipality Profiles – Integrated Plans Implemented Through Permits, Orders, or Judicial Consent Decrees

In the Report to Congress on Integrated Plans to Comply with the Water Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2019, EPA profiles 13 municipalities that have completed integrated plans and implemented them through permits, orders, or judicial consent decrees.

  • Integrated Planning in Action: Akron, Ohio (pdf) (893.82 KB)
  • Integrated Planning in Action: Atlanta, Georgia (pdf) (2 MB)
  • Integrated Planning in Action: Boone, Iowa (pdf) (636.83 KB)
  • Integrated Planning in Action: Columbia, Missouri (pdf) (295.33 KB)
  • Integrated Planning in Action: Columbus, Ohio (pdf) (767.81 KB)
  • Integrated Planning in Action: Johnson County, Kansas (pdf) (631.96 KB)
  • Integrated Planning in Action: Lawrence, Kansas (pdf) (1020.31 KB)
  • Integrated Planning in Action: Lima, Ohio (pdf) (1023.87 KB)
  • Integrated Planning in Action: New Bedford, Massachusetts (pdf) (897.91 KB)
  • Integrated Planning in Action: Richmond, Virginia (pdf) (659.46 KB)
  • Integrated Planning in Action: Seattle, Washington (pdf) (498.05 KB)
  • Integrated Planning in Action: Springfield, Massachusetts (pdf) (1.06 MB)
  • Integrated Planning in Action: Springfield, Missouri (pdf) (438.76 KB)

National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES)

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Last updated on April 30, 2025
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