WSP03323

• File Number: 8112.600
• Description: Arkansas White Red Basins Interagency Committee - AWRBIAC
• Basin: Arkansas
• Water Division: 2
• Date: 1/1/1992
• Author: AWRBIAC
• Title: AWRBIAC Annual Report 1990 - 1991
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Annual Report

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AUG 30 1991

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Soil and <'Water
Conservation Commission

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c:-, J, Randy Young, P,E.
..c. Executive Director
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101 E, CAPITOL
SUITE 350
LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS 72201

PHONE [phone]
FAX [phone]

FIVE MINUTE ACTIVITY REPORT

1.

The Arkansas General Assembly passed the "Arkansas Ground
Water Protection and Management Act" during the 1991
Legislative Session. Under the Act, the Arkansas Soil
and Water Conservation Commission has the responsibility
for deve 1 op i ng a comprehens i ve ground water protect ion
program which includes, as a minimum: Assessment and
monitoring of the avai labi 1 ity of ground water and its
quality; classification of ground wate~; establishment of
ground water criteria and/or standards; management of
ground water, including issuance of water rights to
protect ground water qual ity; and establ ishment of an
education/information program.

The act author i zes the Commi ss i on to formally desi gnate
the critical ground water areas, including the
establishment of boundaries. Once the critical areas
have been developed, the Commission will then target the
available resources to the critical areas for the purpose
of implementing the water conservation practice cost-
share program and the information/education program to
insure, to the extent possible, the success of this
voluntary incentive based approach.

2. Since being designated by Governor Cl inton as the lead
agency on non-point pollution, the Arkansas Soil and
Water Conservation Commission has initiated a program
utiliZing Section 319 funding through EPA. A teaming of
this program with USDA programs (SCS and ASCS) will allow
monitoring and an information/education effort to
document effectiveness of Best Management Practices
des'i gned to reduce nutr i ent runoff. Pl ans are to expand
technical assistance in future years.

3. FOllowing the May 1990 floods, the Soil Conservation
Service identified approximately $2 mi 11 ion in "non-
exigency" Emergency Watershed Protection projects.
Ei ghty (eO) percent of th i s sum was funded by SCS; ten
(10) percent was funded by the State; one-half from the
Arkansas Soil and Water Conservation Commission, and one-'
half from Arkansas Office of Emergency Services disaster
, funds. The rema i n i ng 10" was funded by 1 oca 1 sources

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