Laserfiche WebLink
<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Western States Water Council <br />Water Quality Committee <br /> <br />Washington, DC <br />March 13,2007 <br /> <br />State Roundtable Continued <br /> <br />Kansas <br /> <br />The indirect issue regarding ethanol is $4 corn. Farmers are tearing up CRP land to put in corn <br />that is highly water consumptive. Kansas has 12 plants on line and 20 coming. Size 100 million gallons <br />per year. Water is the limiting factor in ethanol production. Kansas has had to take compliance actions. <br />The process water contains salts and BODs. Central States and Water folks held a meeting in Midwest <br />re: ethanol. The Water folks need to educate the air folks about the problems. Nebraska is putting <br />together training agenda. Pat will send Shaun the CENSARA work, which is a good model for <br />coordination. Roger suggested that we need to do more cross-media work (e.g. air/water). <br /> <br />Kansas is starting to get applications for reuse to put back into lakes. The problem is that it is <br />lakes with high eutrophication. Washington is in process of updating their reclaimed water rule. In <br />Arizona, they have a rule that says "cannot be used for human use." In Kansas, you can't irrigate with <br />it. In Arizona and Idaho, you can irrigate if it meets a certain grade. <br /> <br />Anti-Deg - hitting more dischargers up, why they should allow more discharges. Kansas is <br />playing up anti-deg as a new use to be protected. It is taking dischargers by surprise. <br /> <br />Kansas engaged in Colorado's water quality process re: selenium in the Arkansas River. Are <br />any states considering revising selenium standards? Colorado, Utah and Arizona considered, but <br />received a letter from Fish & Wildlife. Walt said the decision is a political one - do you go to 100 % <br />protection or 95 percentile. <br /> <br />Colorado <br /> <br />Water quality Standard for temperature was revised recently. EPA will approve. Washington <br />said that Region 10 won't approve until ESA consultation takes place. Federal fish agencies are really <br />pushing Washington on standards. Colorado always adopts standards now with the 90-day review period <br />for EPA given the Alaska rule. (Roger called itthe 7(d) rule from GeoffGrubbs). Washington's director <br />took the position to implement immediately upon adoption, as did Arizona. <br /> <br />There is an MOU between EPA and the Services on ESA. Would like to have feedback from <br />EP A on where they are on this. It does not seem like that coordination is taking place. The problem is <br />getting the Services engaged on the front end, because they say they do not have the resources. <br /> <br />Idaho <br /> <br />UST rules passed this year (still no NPDES). Working on trading. <br /> <br />Recent decision from the Idaho State Supreme Court was that the state could override prior <br />appropriation doctrine to provide water to junior groundwater users. The Governor will have a big water <br />summit to figure out how it will all work. <br /> <br />7 <br />