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Prepare now for first-time nationwide numeric discharge limits and monitoring requirements.  These new limits strictly enforce the amount of sediment allowed to run off any construction site disturbing 10 or more acres of land at any one time (whether contiguous or not).  This new rule, issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in December 2009, also specifies the exact types of erosion and sediment controls that contractors must use, at a bare minimum, to control stormwater runoff on all construction sites that disturb one or more acres of land.   To find out what this means for contractors - . All °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ô¤²â chapters and members are encouraged to participate in an °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ô¤²â webinar on March 2 from 1:30 to 3:00 pm ET to learn about these new federal requirements - called Construction and Development Effluent Limitations Guidelines (C&D ELG) - that are certain to change the way contractors manage stormwater on their projects! Background The takes effect in February 2010 and phases in over four years.   The new ELG requirements will be incorporated into all federal and state individual and general National Pollutant Discharges Elimination System (NPDES) stormwater construction permits upon their next reissuance.  Click to see when your state's construction general stormwater permit is scheduled to expire and be re-issued.  For more information on what the new C&D ELG rule requires, see a detailed article that ran in the January 8, 2010, issue of °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ô¤²â's Environmental Observer newsletter - . **Ìý PLEASE JOIN US:        Tuesday, March 2 - 1:30 to 3:00 pm ET TO REGISTER:             **Ìý For more information, contact Leah Pilconis, senior environmental advisor to °ÄÃÅÁùºÏ²Ê¿ª½±Ô¤²â, at pilconisl@agc.org.