The city of Columbia, S.C. has agreed to implement extensive improvements to its sanitary sewer system at an estimated cost of $750 million, to resolve alleged violations of the Clean Water Act including unauthorized overflows of untreated raw sewage, under a settlement with the EPA, Department of Justice and South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control. Columbia will also implement a $1 million supplemental environmental project to restore streams, reduce flooding, and improve water quality in several waterways.

The House Natural Resources Committee is holding an oversight hearing today on “Reauthorization of the Magnuson-Stevens Fishery Conservation and Management Act.” Witnesses include representatives from the National Marine Fisheries Service, Mid-Atlantic Fishery Management Council, West Coast Seafood Processors Association and Northeast Seafood Coalition.