The Clean Water Act requires all rivers, lakes, and coastal waters be safe for swimming, boating and fishing. Over 20,000 water bodies (40 %) failed to meet the goals of the Clean Water Act, and the EPA reports the condition of our coastal waters is only fair to poor. The Total Maximum Daily Load is a key provision of the Clean Water Act. It requires the states and EPA to identify polluted waterways, rank them by priority, and develop limits on the maximum daily load of pollutants a waterbody can bear without being impaired for drinking, fishing and swimming. The EPA and the state of Florida acted to clean up waterways when forced by citizen lawsuits. They announced new regulations in July 2000 to strengthen the program, but implementation was fought by polluters. According to the Clean Water Network a new Bush Administration proposal will weaken standards for classifying water bodies and allow now polluted waters to be considered clean on paper. They are also concerned that it will remove controls on polluted runoff, the largest source of water pollution and make cleaning up polluted waters a voluntary requirement, without deadlines. This effort follows one in Florida to weaken the same provisions statewide.