; (2) easing restrictions on wastewater plants to authorize them to release partially treated sewage during rainstorms; (3) refusing to develop regulations mandated by the Clean Water Act aimed at avoiding and minimizing spills of hazardous substances; (4) weakening rules about siting, operating, monitoring, and closing pits where coal ash and other coal combustion waste is dumped; (5) exempting polluters who harm waterways if their discharge first travels through groundwater from the Clean Water Act’s discharge permitting program; (6) restricting Environmental Protection Agency experts’ authority under the Clean Water Act to stop dumping projects that cause unacceptable harms to water bodies; (7) delaying and weakening toxic pollution discharge limits for powerplants; and (8) curtailing States’ and Tribal Nations’ rights under the Clean Water Act to review federally permitted projects and impose conditions or reject the project, as appropriate, to prevent harm to their waterways; and Whereas the United States remains far from achieving the objective of the Clean Water Act, putting at risk critical resources that provide enormous value to the country, and the Environmental Protection Agency’s proposed actions would substantially worsen those conditions: Now, therefore, be it