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<br />,.... <br />en <br />co <br />>+:- <br /> <br />Grazing Nonpoint Source Control Strategy <br />Re~ion VIII <br /> <br />I. <br /> <br />PURPOSE <br /> <br />This Grazing Nonpoint Source Control Strategy provides guidance for the <br />prevent'ion and control of nonpoi nt source water quality degradation resul ting <br />from livestock grazing of rangeland. It describes procedures for identifying <br />problem areas and those remedial measures which generally maintain water, <br />quality or reduce water pollution. It envisions appropriate water quality <br />improvement programs carried out voluntarily at the local level by private <br />land owners and land management agencies responsible for grazing management on <br />federal and state grazing lands. <br /> <br />The Clean Water Act (P.L. 95-217, 1977), Section 208(b)(2)(F), requires <br />that various nonpoint sources of water pollution, including runoff from lands <br />used for li~stock production, be identified and, to the extent feasible, be <br />controlled. Section 101(d) of the Clean Water Act designates the <br />Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as the administering federal agency for <br />the Act. In this capacity EPA gave direction and funding support to the <br />States in the development of area-wide or state-wide nonpoint source water <br />quality management plans required by Section 208 of the Act. These plans have <br />been completed and approved for all states in EPA Region VIII (Colorado, Utah, <br />Wyoming, Montana, North Dakota, and South Dakota) except for one area-wide <br />plan in Colorado which is under litigation. <br /> <br />SeCtion 208 also provides for a continuing planning process by the States <br />which dqcuments existing problems arising from point and nonpoint sources of <br />water pollution. Management procedures to eliminate problems and proper <br />review to insure that remedial actions are carried out are an intergral part <br />of the process. <br /> <br />Section 305(b) directs the states to report biennially to EPA on current <br />water quality conditions, including a description of the nature and extent of <br />nonpoint sources of water pollution and recommendations for control of each <br />category of such sources. <br /> <br />Grazing was not a primary concern or a primary target in water quality <br />management pl ans prepared to date. Therefore, water qual ity problems arising <br />on grazing lands need to be addressed in the continuing planning process and <br />the biennial updates as information becomes available and problem areas are <br />identified. <br /> <br />, <br /> <br />~, <br /> <br />'~'" . ~~. jk~,.1 <br />