WSPC03362

• File Number: 8272.500.10
• Description: Colorado River Basin-Water Quality-Salinity-Organizations and Entities-CO Dept of Public Health-WQCC
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 4/21/1982
• Author: Gerald E Dahl
• Title: Colorado River Salinity-Water Quality Control Commission-1981 Standards-Northwest Colorado Council of Governments Request for Party Status
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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I3EfOHE THE WATER QUI\LI'I'Y CONTROL COMMISSION
STATE OF COLORADO
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REQUEST FOR PARTY STATUS . A' OIJ~l,rry
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COLORADO IU VER SALINITY STANDARDS "-U,UL LC"..,. '"I

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PUBLIC RULEMAKING HEARING; ARTICLE 3, SECTION 3.9.5

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COMES NOW the Northwest Colorado Council of Governments
(NWCCOG), by its undersigned attorney, and hereby requests
party status for the above-referenced public rulemaking hearing
and all associated proceedings. In accordance with the
procedural rules for all proceedings before the Water Quality
Control Commission and the Water Quality Control Division, at
Section 2.1.7, NWCCOG furnishes the following information
concerning its party status request: \

1. General Nature of Applicant. NWCCOG is an association
of local governments organized pursuant to Article
XIV, Section 18 of the Colorado Constitution and
Sections 29-1-201, et seq., C.R.S., 1973, as amended,
and is composed of the Colorado Counties of Eagle,
Grand, Jackson, Pitkin, Routt and Summit, and the 25
incorporated municipalities within those counties.

2. [{easons [or Seeking Admittance as a Party. NWCCOG was
a party to the proceedings before the Commission which
resulted in the aaoption of the basic statewide
standards as well as the classifications and standards
for Region XII. NWCCOG is the designated Section 208
areawide waste treatment management and planning
agency for Region XII. Pursuant to this authority,
NWCCOG prepared and presented to the State of Colorado
its areawide water quality management plan for Region
XII in 1979, and a revised and updated version of the
plan in December of 1982. As an areawide planning
agency [or non-point sources of pollution and as a
representative of a region containing the heaawaters
o[ the Colorado River from which 30 percent of the
total runoff ot the ColoradO river system is produced,
NWCCOG has a vital concern with salinity in its
region, 1~e role of 208 water quality planning with
respect to salinity is required by the Clean Water Act
ut Section 208 (b) (2) (I), which requires designated 208
planning agencies to include in the planning process:

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