PERMFILE122456

• Permit No: C1981016
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 12/11/2001
• Doc Name: STATEMENT OF BENEFICIAL USE OF GROUND WATER & CWQC Act
• Section_Exhibit Name: APPENDIX X Section X.9
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

Water Quality Control Act - 2
Title 25, Article 8
• PART 1
GENERAL PAC7VISTQ~S
25-8-101. SH3tT TITLE. This article shall be la~own and may be cited as
the "Colorado Water Quality Control Act".
25-8-102. LF7GISLATIVE DDQARATION. (1) It is declared that pollution of
state waters constitutes a menace to public health and welfare, creates public
nuisances, is harmful to wildlife and aquatic life, and impairs domestic, agricul-
tural, industrial, recreational, and other beneficial uses of state waters and
the problem of water pollution in this state is closely related to the problem of
water pollution in adjoining states.
(2) It is further declared to be the public policy of this state to con-
serve state waters and to protect, maintain, and improve the quality thereof for
public water supplies, for protection and propagation of wildlife and aquatic
life, and far domestic, agricultural, industrial, recr~tional, and other t~ene-
ficial uses; to provide that no pollutant be released into any state water with-
out first receiving the treatment or other corrective action necessary to ~rotect
the legitimate and beneficial uses of such waters; to provide for the prevention,
abatement, and control of new or existing water pollution; and to cooperate with
other states and the federal government in carrying out these objectives. ~
(3) It is further declared that protection of the quality of state waters
and the prevention, abatement, and control of water pollution are matters of
• statewide concern and affected with a public interest, and the provisions of this
article are enacted in the exercise of the police powers of this state for', the
purpose of protecting the health, peace, safety, and general welfare of the people
of this state.
(4) This article and the agencies authorized under this article shall be
the final authority in the administration of water pollution prevention, abate-
ment and control. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no department or
agency of the state, and no municipal corporation, county, or other political sub-
division, having jurisdiction over water pollution prevention, abatement, and
control, shall issue any authorization for the discharge of pollutants into state
waters unless authorized to do so in accordance with this article.
2r8-103. DF~'INITI025. As used in this article, unless the context other-
wise requires:
(1) "Crnmission" means the water quality control ccamission created by
section 25-8-201.
(2) "Control regulation" means any regulation promulgated pursuantito
section 25-8-205.
(3) 'Division" means the division of administration of the state depart-
ment of health.
• (4) "Effluent limitation" means any restriction or prohibition established
under state or federal law on quantities, rates, and concentrations of chemical,
physical, biological, and other constituents which are discharged from point
sources into state waters, including but not limited to standards of performance
for new sources, toxic effluent standards, and schedules of conq~liance.
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