Can states establish more stringent water quality criteria than that recommended by EPA?
Of course, states are always free to establish water quality criteria more protective of human health and aquatic ecosystems than those required or recommended by EPA. Hence, though EPA is pointing out the effects of using the SSMs in the ways described in the answer to the previous question – ways the Agency had not envisioned when it published the 1986 bacteria criteria document – states, territories, and authorized tribes retain the discretion to be more stringent and use an SSM in such a fashion.
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