WSP01909

• File Number: 8273.500
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control - Federal Agencies - EPA
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/12/1979
• Title: State - EPA Agreement -- Colorado Region VIII FY 79
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

..... agencies, local government and interested or affected publ ics. In other words,
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~ the document should be meaningful to a group much larger than those directly
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negotiating Its content. The State is anxious to comply with the recently

proposed EPA regulations (40 CFR Part 25) mandating increased public involvement

in program development and delivery, and views this agreement as an aid to-

wards reaching that objective.

The State/EPA Agreement is not intended to meet the legal requirement for

305(b) water quality assessment. The assessment In Chapter

of the Agreemcnt

Is merely a summary of water quality problems to be used as a prologue for the

resource decisions made in the agreement. Another document has been prepared

to meet the legal requirements of 305(b). The Continuing Planning Process (CPP)

is Included in the appendix of the agreement. The Commission held a publ ic hear-

ing on the document in December and is preparing to adopt a regulation address-

ing the effects of the CPP on plans to be adopted.

The main part of this cooperative agreement consists of a summary assess-

ment of water qual ity problems in the State, a scction enumerating gaps and

overlaps In duties and responsibilities for carrying out the management of

water qual ity programs. Following this is a chapter entitled "Water Qual ity

Management Strategy" which essentially is the work plan for the Division, dis-

cussed In terms of FY 79 and also as a 5-year strategy. The traditional 106

document has been el iminated from the appendix since the resource requests and

funding allocations are specified in the body of the agreement. It is intended

that the thread going from water qual ity assessment, through gaps and overlaps

to strategy and funding requirements will bear some connection to the goals

and objectives established by the Commission and the Division, and will indicate

to the interested pub I ie as well as to EPA the intention of improving the de-

1 ivery of water qual ity programs in the State of Colorado.

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