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Western States Water Council Water Quality Committee Washington, DC March 28, 2006 . Motion to recommend to the full Council to reaffirm the position as redrafted. Seconded and approved. The second resolution is Position #251 - - to update the position. The Water Resources Committee recommended the policy be readopted with the revisions on page 2. There are no substantive changes, just context and updating the status of the FERC program. Motion to recommend readoption by Stephen Bernath. Tom Maddock seconded. Unanimously adopted. Tom Stiles suggested we wait for the proposed rule to come out on NPDES, then we could discuss. Keep our eye on that. If the rule is tardy coming out, the background is the Klee/Grumbles memo. Plan to hold conf call in June. Trying to maximize the benefit of the Water Quality Committee meetings. The primary reason for the limitation was on time, others on travel budgets. Increased use of conf calls for Water Quality Committee members between meetings should be utilized to expand the . participation in the discussions. Interest in periodic meetings between the ASIWPCA meetings and the WSWC meetings. In some instances, that is the same people, in others it is not. We may more efficiently carve up which issues to leave to ASIWPCA, and other times there may be more uniquely western issues, where clearly the WSWC has an advantage. This creates challenges as well. Tom Stiles said there is a need for adequate lead time, particularly for scheduling conf calls. Paul Frohardt recommended having a subgroup to develop a specific recommendation and then bring it to the full Water Quality Committee, and then if the Committee can. come to consensus, then take it to the Full Council at the July meeting. Shaun McGrath: The Executive Committee agreed to allow for concurrent meetings at the regular Council meetings. How can we make the Water Quality Committee relevant to states? As Paul went through the work plan, folks did become familiar with the items the Committee is dealing with. Some logistics need to be worked out. Tom Stiles: There was a perception that ASIWPCA has an eastern niche, whereas the WSWC group is specifically Western. 16 .