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53 000806 The Resources Council is authorized to enter into negotiations and agreements with the Federal government with regard to inclusion of conservation storage features for water supply in any authorized Federal project. No such agreement has yet been consummated but future cooperation in such projects seems desirable and logical, particularly in southern Iowa where adequate supplies of groundwater often are not available and surface supplies are not dependable, 5, Authority Changes The Sixty-first General Assembly of Iowa (1965) enacted several laws affecting water and related land resources, The more important of these laws are individually discussed below: a. Iowa Water Pollution Control Act The 1965 Iowa legislature created the Iowa Water Pollution Control Commission with the power and duty to pre- vent, control and abate the pollution of the wate rs of the State. The Commission thus succeeds to duties formerly assigned to the State Department of Health with regard to stream and lake pollution and has been delegated broader powers including the authority to establish and enforce wate I' quality standards. The Commission establishes policy, reviews plans for waste treatment facilities, and enters appropriate orders with regard to specific instances of alleged pollution. The Health Depart- ment provides technical and administrative services to the Commission, The Commission has adopted water quality criteria for the State, which criteria have been concurred in by the Natural Resources Council and are being submitted to the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration for review, b. Certification of operators of public water supply and waste water treatment plants Under the provisions of an Act of the Sixty-first General Assembly (Iowa Acts, 6l G. A., Ch, 162; Ch, 136A, Iowa Code 1966), the Commissioner of Public Health is required to classify all water treatment plants, water distribution systems, and wastewater treatment plants affecting