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<br />Quality. The water pollution control staff of the Department <br /> <br />will develop a non-point source and pesticides management <br /> <br />N <br />Ul <br />Ul <br />N <br /> <br />program to protect the quality of both surface and ground <br /> <br />water. <br /> <br />California <br /> <br />NPDES Permits - The California Regional Water Quality <br /> <br />Control Board, Colorado River Basin Region, issues the NPDES <br /> <br />permits and waste discharge requirements for non-navigable <br />streams and land discharges within the Colorado River <br /> <br />drainage portion of the state. In issuing and reissuing <br /> <br />waste discharge requirements the Regional Water Quality <br /> <br />Control Board complies with all Forum policies and, in <br /> <br />addition, has included in the discharge permit requirements <br /> <br />for land discharges a prohibition of brine backwash from <br /> <br />water softeners into evapo-percolation ponds which overlie <br /> <br />ground waters which are in hydraulic continuity with the <br /> <br />Colorado River System. <br /> <br />Industrial discharges are to be <br /> <br />confined in impervious evaporation basins. <br /> <br />Water Quality Management Planning - The Water Quality <br /> <br /> <br />Control Plan for the combined East and West Colorado River <br /> <br />Basin, which has been adopted by the California Regional <br />Water Quality Control Board and the State Water Resources <br /> <br />Control Board, <br /> <br />was updated in 1985. <br /> <br />Follow ing public <br /> <br />hearings on the plan, the updated plan was adopted by the <br /> <br /> <br />Regional Water Quality Control Board and the State Water <br /> <br />Resources Control Board and subsequently approved by EPA in <br /> <br />-25- <br /> <br />1. <br />