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<br />N <br />~ <br />~ <br />N <br /> <br />Nevada - Authority for issuing NPDES permits was <br />delegated to the state. The State Division of Environ- <br />mental Protection has reissued most of the permits <br />previously issued by EPA. <br />Basic Management Industries are trying to eliminate <br />industrial waste water by evaporation in lined ponds and <br />delivery of the waste to those ponds by pipe. Permits <br />have been issued to two of the companies, which allow <br />discharge of relatively good quality cooling water and <br /> <br />to one company which allows discharge of surface storm <br />runoff. <br /> <br />A permit was also issued to tte Nevada Power Company <br />which is currently discharging brackish cooling water from <br />both the Clark and the Sunrise Generating Stations. Plans <br />to meet zero discharge by 1982 are being evaluated, which <br />involve evaporation of the brackish water with no return <br />to Las Vegas Wash. <br />NPDES permits have been issued to Clark County and <br />the City of Las Vegas. A program is being developed to <br />coordinate, investigate, and encourage the implementation <br />of management practices resulting in reduction of waste- <br />water salinity from those entities. <br />The first phase of the program, currently underway, <br />will develop a public education program on salinity con- <br />trol and optimum use of water softeners. <br /> <br />-24- <br />