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<br />. <br /> <br />v.) <br />l'-J <br />en <br />o <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />development and implementation of areawide waste treatment <br />management plans", (Clean Water Act, Sec. 208(a)),not, for the <br />purpose of supplanting the right of a State to determine its <br />own political organization, a right reserved by the Tenth <br />Amendment to the United States Constitution. See Gomillion <br />v. Lightfoot" 364 U.S. 339, 342 (1960). <br />In Colorado, agencies have only that authority <br />granted to them by the Legislature. Dixon v. Zick, 179 Colo. <br />278, 284, 500 P.2d 130 (1972); Board of COl.nty conunissioners <br />v. ~, 172 Colo. 121, 125, 470 P.2d 861 (1970). A Colorado <br />agency is barred from sub-delegating its authority to another <br />body, expressly or impliedly, absent expre,ss legislative <br />authorization. Colorado v. Silverman, Colo. , 555 <br />P.2d 1155, 1158 (1976). <br />The Colorado Water Quality Control Act provides <br />that the Water Quality Control conunission is the "State <br />water pollution control agency for this State for all purposes <br />of the federal ~"and is hereby authorized to take all action <br />necessary and appropriate to secure to this State, its <br />municipalities, or intermunicipal or interstate agencies <br />the benefits of said AC,t." C.R.s. 1973-25-8-202 (6) <br />(emphasis added). Consistent with this single State <br />agency approach, the Colorado Water Quality Act provides <br />that the Water Quality Division shall conduct a continual <br />planning process for purposes of section 208 of the federal <br />Act and that the Division shall submit its proposals to the <br />conunission for hearing and approval. C.R.s~ 1973, 25-8-703. <br />Nowhere in the Colorado Act is there any authority for 208 <br />plan approval to any other entity or a subentity of the State. <br />Any agreement with any agency of the federal govern- <br />ment "authorizing, or requiring compliance in this State with <br />any water quality standard or control regulation" is not <br /> <br />-12- <br />