Following NWEA’s successful lawsuit to force the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to act one way or the other on Washington’s proposed clean-up plans for Puget Sound’s Deschutes River basin, EPA disapproved most of the plan.  Having done so, EPA was then on the hook to issue a replacement clean-up plan, known as a “pollution diet” or “TMDL.”  EPA has now finally issued draft replacement plans for the Deschutes.  Not surprisingly, after spending yet more of taxpayer dollars on technical analysis, the EPA plans fall well short of being the least bit useful, as NWEA told EPA in comments on the replacement TMDLs.