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~ . . . except by the device of imposition of stringent requirements. Another important problem that remains to be solved is that of allocating the available waste-loading capacity between the pre- sent and future wasters. This latter problem has recently been high-lighted by an application for waste discharge requirements by a proposed cellophane plant that would discharge large quan- tities of highly mineralized wastes into the upper Sacramento River. This plant would utilize much of the present dilution capacity of the river, While this industry might be located on the upper Sacramento River at the present time without "pollut- ing" the stream, it appears that there will be relatively little remaining capacity for additional industrial plants to discharge mineral wastes to this stream, It is also possible that. quality requirements for future beneficial uses will require the exclu- sion of or a much higher degree of treatment of the wastes from this plant. The waters of the Sacramento River are an integral nart of any comprehensive develonment of the water resources of the State, They are now used for irrig~tion of a large portion ~ of the Sacramento Valley and Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and ~ supply municipal water for Sacramento and Vallejo as well as other communities. They are also exported from the Delta to the San Joaquin Valley and to the East Bay Area under the Central Valley Project for irrigdtion, municipal and industrial purposes. Under the State authorized Feather River Project, waters will be used in the Feather River service area and will be exported from the Delta to the San Francisco Bay area,c the southern San Joaquin Valley, and as far south as San Diego County in southern Cali- fornia. Additional developments now under study as part of The -6-