...established under section 1313 of this title and which effluent limitations will assure protection and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of shellfish, fish, and wildlife in or on the water into which the discharge is made, shall not be subject to any more stringent effluent...

...paragraph (1) (B) of this subsection the total maximum daily thermal load required to assure protection and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of shellfish, fish and wildlife. Such estimates shall take into account the normal water temperatures, flow rates, seasonal variations,...

...paragraph (1) (B) of this subsection the total maximum daily thermal load required to assure protection and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of shellfish, fish and wildlife. Such estimates shall take into account the normal water temperatures , flow rates , seasonal variations,...

...public hearing, can demonstrate to the satisfaction of the Administrator (or, if appropriate, the State) that any effluent limitation proposed for the control...component of any discharge from such source will require eflluent limitations more stringent than necessary to assure the projection and propagation of a balanced,...

...the generally applicable thermal limits are "more stringent than necessary to assure the protection and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of shellfish, fish, and wildlife" in the body of water into which the discharge is to be made. The Appeal Board has stated that "... EPA...

...connection with State water quality standards, provided that such limitations will "assure protection and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of shellfish, fish and wildlife" in or on the waters into which the heat is discharged. The protection afforded to modified, existing thermal...

...paragraph (1)(B) of this subsection the total maximum daily thermal load required to assure protection and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of shellfish, fish and wildlife. Such estimates shall take into account the normal water temperatures, flow rates, seasonal variations,...

...which controls on thermal discharges under Section 301 "are not stringent enough to assure protection and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of shellfish, fish and wildlife." The states are then to limit the total maximum daily load that can be imposed on the stream. (Section...

...316(a) of the FWPCA, that such standards are "more stringent than necessary to assure the [protection] and propagation of a balanced, indigenous population of shellfish, fish, and wildlife . . . (id. at 50). EPA has made that finding. For purposes of its NEPA evaluation, the NRC must accept...

...fulfull projected cooling requirements. However, to the extent that in specific situations "protection and propagation of a balanced indigenous population of shellfish, fish and wildlife" can be achieved, presumably cooling systems other than closed-cycle evaporative- cooling (determined...