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• Board Meeting Date: 6/3/1970
• Description: Agenda or Table of Contents, Minutes, Memos
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Meeting

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and also ih a water quality study of 17 differ-
ent fish hatcheries. They cooperated with the
Radiological Health Division of the Federal
Water Quaiity Administration in a study of
radiological activity at various uranium mills
and their effects on water supplies in such
situations as Rocky Flats and others.

The Division provided men to assist in
monitoring before and after the detonation at
Project Rulison.

I want to give you a few more general com-
ments. The last session of the General Assembly
provided some new legislation. One of these
bills, Senate Bill 35, provides for the first
time for penalties for persons who violate '
a cease and desist order issued by the com-
mission. It is interesting to note that shortly
after the passage of this act a community which
had been issued a cease and desist order and
which had not taken the time to re~uest a hear-
ing before the commission within the 20-day
period ~rovided, upon enactment of the legisla-
tion promptly came in and asked belatedly for
a hearing, which was granted. We think it has
somewhat sharpened people's awarerl~ss of the
importance of trying to clean up their water
pollution problems.

Senate Bill 49 gave the commission authori-
ty to designate certain areas of the state
which ~re found to be unsuitable for. the use
of septic tank systems. The staff at present
is in the process of gathering such information
from district engineers and local health units
of the various counties and/or cities.

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Senate Bill 45 provided penalties for
pollution of water by radioactive toxic and
other wastes and by camper wastes and makes it
possible now to assess penalties for these types
of pollutions. It specifically provides that
it is unlawful to discharge camper wastes within
100 feet of any water even if these wastes have