WSP06933

• File Number: 8272.500
• Description: Colorado River Basin Salinity Control - Colo Dept of Public Health - WQCC and WQCD
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 11/1/1989
• Author: WQCD
• Title: Colorado Nonpoint Assessment Report - November 1989
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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The Assessment report provides an analysis of nonpoint source water quality

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problems. The management program provides a process for the correction of

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these problems. For the State of Colorado these two items will be produced

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separately, but will be combined to provide the basis for nonpoint source

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decision making in Colorado. The remainder of this report will be devoted to

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the nonpoint source assessment. The management program will be produced

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seperately, based on the findings of this assessment report.

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Requirements of State Assessment Report
Section 319 (a) of the Clean Water Act is very specific in describing .the

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contents of the state assessment report:

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(a) State Assessment Reports

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Contents - The Governor of each state shall, after

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notice and opportunity for public comment, prepare and

submit to the administrator for approval, a report which

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identifies those navigable waters within the State which,

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without additional action to control nonpoint sources of

. pollution, cannot reasonably be expected to attain' or

maintain applicable water quality standards or the goals

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and requirements of this Act;

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