WSP04684

• File Number: 8272.500
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control Forum
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 10/1/1975
• Title: Appendix C - Water Quality Management Plan - Colorado River Basin - Water Quality Standards for Salinity Including Numeric Criteria and Plan of Implementation for Salinity Control
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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CHAPTER II
HISTORICAL ACTIONS RELATIVE TO SALINITY STANDARDS

Water Qualitv Act of 1965

With Congress' passage of the Water Quality Act of 1965, the
states were required to establish water quality standards for inter-
state streams within their boundaries by June )0, 1967. The purposes
of these standards were to protect and enhance the quality and
productivity of the nation's interstate waters to serve a variety
of beneficial uses, such as public water supply, recreation and
propagation of aquatic life, and industrial and irrigation uses.
Along with the water quality standards, the states were required to
furnish a plan for putting the standards into effect and for enforcing
them.

Standards, but without numeric criteria, were submitted by the
states in accordance with this time schedule. Upon acceptance by
the Secretary of the Interior, the standards became joint state-federal
standards.

Early Sessions of the Conference in the Matter of
the Pollution.of the Interstate Waters of the
Colorado River and Its Tributaries

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Sustained attention to water quality problems in the Colorado
River Basin dates back to 1960 when the Conference in the Matter of
the Pollution of the Interstate Waters of the Colorado River and Its

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Tributaries was formed under the provisions of the Federal Water
Pollution Control Act, as amended, PL 660, 84th Congress. Six
sessions of the Conference were held from 1960 through 1967. The

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