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<br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />. <br /> <br />Third, with respect to the issue of whether the Water <br />Quality Control Division and Water Quality Control Commission <br />should be transferred from the Department of Health to the <br />Department of Natural Resources, the Board would observe that <br />the department in which those agencies are housed will not <br />affect the basic nature of the regulatory decisions which they <br />are charged with making. This is because the programs for <br />which the division and the commission are responsible are <br />largely creatures of federal law, not of the organizational <br />.chart for state government. In the Board's judgment, the real <br />issue is not where the division and the commission should be <br />housed, but rather whether the state, given the constraints of <br />federal law. wishes to continue to administer these federally <br />mandated water quality control programs or prefers to return <br />that function to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as <br />other states have done. <br /> <br />Groundwater <br /> <br />Non-tributary groundwater <br /> <br />Tributary groundwater <br /> <br />Underground storage and recharge <br /> <br />This listing of issues is so broad as to give no guidance <br />as to what the speakers at the July 14 public forum intended. <br />Furthermore. the Board would note that the state's pOlicies <br />with respect to non-tributary groundwater outside of designated <br />basins were thoroughly reviewed and debated only three years <br />ago when section 37-90-137. CRS. and associated statutes were <br />extensively amended. Therefore. the Board does not see the <br />need for further study at this time. <br /> <br />Recoqnition of Values Impacted by Water Diversions <br /> <br />*How to maintain the natural environment and water quality in <br />conjunction with the development of the state's water <br />resources <br /> <br />Quality versus quantity <br /> <br />Water quality in relation to the environment <br /> <br />*Adequacy of the state's instream flow program <br /> <br />Impact of interbasin transfers <br /> <br />*Need to provide by statute for compensating the basin of <br />origin for transfers of water from such basins <br /> <br />Create a balance between preserving agriCUltural land use and <br />the desire to provide water for metropolitan uses <br /> <br />-5- <br />