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. Western States Water Council Water Quality Committee Boise, Idaho ' April 21, 2005 proposed revisions. The last version submitted by the subcommittee was dated March 15, and was included in the briefing book. Subsequent to the March 15 draft, the New Mexico water quality office and Norm Semanko from Idaho Water Users Association suggested further revisions. On direction of the Executive Committee, the Subcommittee held a conference call on April 18 prior to the Boise meeting in order to try and work out additional changes. As a result of the call, New Mexico and Idaho both dropped some of their concerns and some concerns were addressed through additional proposed revisions. Stephen Bernath motioned that the Committee recommend to the full Council adoption of the revisions as drafted in the April 18 conference call. Tom Stiles seconded the motion. Mark Pither offered a friendly amendment to change the word "obtained" to "attained" in A.8. The friendly amendment was accepted by the makers of the motion. The motion was unanimously adopted. Other WGA policies: . TMDLs Resolution - Paul Prohardt said the subcommittee concluded the WGA resolution was no longer needed as a stand alone. Instead, the subcommittee had incorporated key paragraphs from the policy into the Arid West Water Quality policy, and suggested allowing the TMDL policy to sunset. Hydropower Resolution - Paul Prohardt and Shaun McGrath said the subcommittee recommended keeping this policy active. Stephen Bernath spoke in favor of that position. SDW A-Shaun McGrath said the WGA staff council had discussed this policy and agreed to keep it active. The Committee agreed with this conclusion. WSWC policy on Clean Water Act - Paul Prohardt said he wants the Committee to discuss a process for updating the policy, and discuss the policy itself, e.g. what issues should be included in the policy. The first question is whether the Council should continue to have a policy on CW A? And if so, what level of detail? Should it be a parallel document to WGA, or go into more specific detail? Toni Hardesty asked what the outlook for reauthorization is. Paul Prohardt said he did not think major reauthorization was very likely. However, the Committee may want to have broader list of issues included in case something comes up. . Mark Pither - ASWIPCA has list of 10 issues that they are focusing on. (The list was handed out). 3