The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
is a federal agency created in 1970 to protect human health and the environment. The New England branch (Region 1)
maintains a wide variety of programs created to uphold federal laws related to river and watershed management such as:
| • The Clean Water Act |
| • The Safe Drinking Water Act |
| • Combined Sewer Overflows |
| • Brownfields |
| • Superfund |
Environmental Protection Agency - Main Site
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Environmental Protection Agency - Northeast/Region 1