Colorado Water Conservation Handbook

• Year: 2004
• Title: CWCB Board Member Handbook
• CWCB Section: Administration
• Author: CWCB
• Description: Handbook containing phone numbers, addresses, statutes, rules, policies, straegic plans and Board member work plans.
• Publications - Doc Type: Other

Water Quality Control

PART 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS
25-8-101. Short title.
25-8-102. Legislative declaration.
25-8-103. Definitions.
25-8-104. Interpretation and construction of
water quality provisions.
25-8-105. Regional wastewater management
plans - amendments.
25-8-106. Study - organizational placement of
water quality control programs. (Repealed)
PART 2 WATER QUALITY CONTROL
COMMISSION
25-8-201.
created.
25-8-202.
25-8-203.
25-8-204.
25-8-205.
25-8-205.5.
25-8-206.
25-8-207.
standards.
25-8-208. Emergency rule-making.
25-8-209. Water quality designations.
PART 3 ADMINISTRATION
25-8-301. Administration of water quality
control programs.
25-8-302. Duties of the division.
25-8-303. Monitoring.
25-8-304. Monitoring, recording, and reporting.
25-8-305. Annual report.
25-8-306. Authority to enter and inspect
premises and records.
25-8-307. Emergencies.
25-8-308. Additional authority and duties of the
division - fee and penalties.
25-8-309. Study of classification and standard

Water quality control commission

Duties of the commission.
Classification of state waters.
Water quality standards.
Control regulations.
Pollution from agricultural chemicals.
Prior acts validated.
Review of classifications and

Issues.
P ART 4 PROCEDURES
25-8-401. Authority and procedures for
hearings.
25-8-402. Procedures to be followed in
classifying state waters and setting standards and
control regulations.
25-8-403. Administrative reconsideration.
25-8-404. Judicial review.
25-8-405. Samples, secret processes.
25-8-406. Administrative stays - renewal
permits.
P ART 5 PERMIT SYSTEM
25-8-501. Permits required for discharge of
pollutants - administration.
25-8-501.1. Permit required for point source water
pollution control - definitions - housed commercial
swine feeding operations - legislative declaration.
25-8-502. Application - definitions - fees - water
quality control fund - public participation.

25-8-503. Permits - when required and when
prohibited - variances.
25-8-504. Agricultural wastes.
25-8-505. Permit conditions concerning publicly
owned wastewater treatment works.
25-8-506. Nuclear and radioactive wastes.
25-8-507. Program repeal.
25-8-508. Industrial pretreatment program -
creation - fees.
25-8-509. Permit conditions concerning use and
disposal ofbiosolids.
PART 6 VIOLATIONS, REMEDIES, AND
PENALTIES
25-8-601. Division to be notified of suspected
violations and accidental discharges - penalty.
25-8-602. Notice of alleged violations.
25-8-603. Hearing procedures for alleged
violations.
25-8-604. Suspension, modification, and
revocation of permit. .
25-8-605. Cease and desist orders.
25-8-606. Clean-up orders.
25-8-607. Restraining orders and injunctions.
25-8-608. Civil penalties.
25-8-609. Criminal pollution - penalties.
25-8-610. Falsification and tampering.
25-8-611. Proceedings by other parties.
25-8-612. Remedies cumulative.
PART 7 DOMESTIC WASTEWATER TREATMENT
WORKS
25-8-701.
25-8-702.

Definitions.
Approval for commencement of

construction.
25-8-703. State contracts for construction of
domestic wastewater treatment works - repeal.

PART 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS

25 -8-101. Short title. This article shall be known and
may be cited as the "Colorado Water Quality Control
Act".

25-8-102. Legislative declaration. (1) In order to foster
the health, welfare, and safety of the inhabitants of the
state of Colorado and to facilitate the enjoyment and use
of the scenic and natural resources of the state, it is
declared to be the policy of this state to prevent injury to
beneficial uses made of state waters, to maximize the
beneficial uses of water, and to develop waters to which
Colorado and its citizens are entitled and, within this
context, to achieve the maximum practical degree of
water quality in the waters of the state consistent with
the welfare of the state. It is further declared that
pollution of state waters may constitute a menace to
public health and welfare, may create public nuisances,
may be harmful to wildlife and aquatic life, and may
impair beneficial uses of state waters and that the
problem of water pollution in this state is closely related
to the problem of water pollution in adjoining states.

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