IN Group Online
Publisher of Indiana Legislative Insight and other weekly insider newsletters, this site is updated daily, and provides extensive details on state government and political developments.  Click here for Indiana
Daily Insight.

To find your legislative district and Hoosier legislators in the Indiana House of Representatives, Indiana Senate, and United States House of Representatives, click here. To obtain information about your legislators, click his or her name.

Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM)
For general information about IDEM, including key phone numbers, click here.

For extensive information on environmental legislation and rule making, visit the Office of Business and Legislative Relations (OBLR) page within IDEM’s Web site. Information includes IDEM-related legislation passed in 1997, 1998, 1999 and 2000; information on how to research the Indiana Code; Environmental Laws and Rules; and on Interim Legislative Study Committees.  To go to the OBLR page, click here.

To connect with the highly useful Office of Water Management page within IDEM, which includes many on-line application forms designed to streamline the application process (some require an Adobe PDF reader), click here.

If you are uncertain what an Adobe PDF reader is, click here.

For a comprehensive phone list of Office of Water Management personnel, click here.

Within the Office of Water Management, there is a separate page for the Drinking Water Branch,
which includes a link to new drinking water permit rules and on-line applications.  
To connect, click here.

Indiana Register
The Indiana Register is an official monthly publication of the state of Indiana, published by the Indiana Legislative Council.  It includes the full text of proposed rules, final rules and related documents such as executive orders and attorney general's opinions.  It includes proposed rules relating to drinking water and other environmental actions.  You should be aware, however, that all proposed rules from all agencies are included in this comprehensive monthly listing, not just drinking water rules and regulations. The monthly summary document typically runs 12-20 pages.  To connect with the index to Volume 25, which includes October 2001 through September 2002, click here.

Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission
To visit the Home Page of the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission (IURC) and for related links, including links to water and sewer related information, click here.

Indiana Office of Utility Consumer Counselor
The Office of Utility Consumer Counselor (OUCC) serves as advocate for consumers in utility proceedings and public hearings of the IURC.  To connect to the OUCC’s “welcome” page, click here.

Indiana Department of Natural Resources
The Indiana DNR is charged with certain water quality issues which are of interest to the drinking water industry.  To connect with the DNR Home Page, click here.

To connect with the DNR Division of Water page, click here.

(National) American Water Works Association Links
AWWA maintains an active presence in the nation's capitol in the form of the Governmental Affairs office, which maintains an extensive on-line presence regarding legislation, policies and actions at the national level.  We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the resources available on the Government Affairs home page;
click here.

In addition, there are several pages which are updated frequently which are useful:

To obtain an overview of what's new in Government Affairs, click here.

For information on recent legislative testimony, click here.

Recent regulatory developments are included in the “what's new” page.