Alabama Nonpoint Source Management Program

A Nonpoint Source Management Program is required under Section 319(b) of the Clean Water Act. States are required to develop a Nonpoint Source Management Program to implement management measures to address Alabama Nonpoint Source Assessment Report problems. Alabama’s Nonpoint Source Management Program was approved by EPA in 1989. Implementation of Nonpoint Source Management Program projects began in 1990 with Alabama’s first annual Section 319(h) grant award.

The updated FY1999 Alabama Nonpoint Source Management Program document enhances statewide efforts to bring all nonpoint source stakeholder expertise, management measures, and resources together, i.e., for all stakeholders to cooperatively "work off the same page." It continues to build on the outdated 1989 Alabama Nonpoint Source Management Program framework utilizing a flexible, targeted, iterative, broad-based approach to prevent and remediate nonpoint source impacted areas of the state.