Must the federal hydro system meet Clean Water Act standards for total
dissolved gas? A multi-agency scientific team charged with designing a
dissolved gas research plan stalled on this question.

A plan needs a goal, Dissolved Gas Team chair Mark Schneider of the
National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) said, and setting this goal is
a high-level policy question, not one the scientists can answer. Schneider
presented the team’s final report to the NMFS Regional Forum …