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L Hired States Department of the Interior 3C Rcai; OF RAC! ~.t_lT?O\ __or wioncc F-zionm vrr:_c ._, ~OU[!1 `[itt `[":f:. :COT. a.!1 ~: T0.EF~i TO ~iJC -202 ~.^,rin LND-6.00, ENV-7.:0 Iii' J MEMORANDUM To: Area Managers, ?lbuquerque, Provo Attention: 100, 200, 400, 700 Area Manager (CDeAngelis)(MRassmussen)(DMUtz)(SMCCall) Western Colorado Area Office - Northern Division Manaqez (PSchumacher)(KOUellette)(RLeach)(EJensen) Western solo ra do Area Office - Southern Division ' Chief, -cl Paso Field Division, E1 Paso TX Attention: -100, 200, 400, 700 From: Charles A. Calhoun Regional Director Subject: Upper Colorado Region Standards and Guidance for Review and Approval/Disapproval of Appl:cat>_ons to Discharge Urban Storm Water Drainage into Existing Reclamation Delivery and Drainage Facilities This memorandum and its attachment provide standards, responsibilities, procedures., background, and guidance for the review and approval or disapproval of applications to discharge urban storm water drainage into existing Reclamation facilities which were authorized, designed, and constructed only for agricultural water delivery and drainage. STANDARDS: 1. Because of serious water quality concerns, discharges of urban storm water into delivery system facilities shall not be authorized. . 2. Authorization to discharge urban storm water drainage into ' Reclamation drainage facilities will be granted only to established local governmental ent:t:es, not to individuals or developers. 3. Costs associated with reviewing and processing applications, including the appropriate level of compliance with the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), will be borne either by the applicant or the principal beneficiary of the development served by the discharge, not by Reclamation or its managing partners. 4. As a minimum, all applications will be reviewed by specialists in land management, environmental affairs, water quality, hazardous materials, and engineering/operations and maintenance. 5. Applicatlons for discharge into facilities located on Reclamation easements will not be approved until the applicant has obtained his/her own right-of-way from the owner(s) of the underlying land. '. 6. Reclamation will not approve applications which violate the Clean Water Act. Environmental impacts will be assessed as directed by NEPA.