Dive summary:

• Under an agreement signed in federal court, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will scrap its effluent limitation guidelines (ELGs) for runoff from construction sites and will start a new rule-making process.
• The agreement covers a lawsuit brought by the Wisconsin Builders Association against a numeric standard for how turbid runoff could be and a suit that the National Association of Home Builders brought over EPA's general permit for construction.
• In addition to restarting rule-making for the standards, EPA said it will pay more than $169,000 in lawyers' costs for the groups that sued.

From the article:

ELGs are national technology-based standards that may include limits on discharge characteristics – called numeric effluent limitations – or prescriptive control measures and practices to prevent the discharge of pollutants. ...