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For Immediate Release Friday, May 19, 2006
Colorado Water Control Commission to Hold
Hearings in Cortez
DENVER - The Colorado Water Quality Control Commission has
scheduled a public rulemaking hearing at 10 a.m. on Monday,
June 12, in Cortez to consider changes to the water quality
classifications, standards and designations for multiple
segments of the Dolores, Lower Dolores, Gunnison and the San
Juan River Basins.
The meeting, which is open to all interested persons, will
be held at the Holiday Inn Express at 2121 E. Main St. in
Cortez.
The changes to be considered by the commission are to the
regulations that identify the uses of rivers, streams, lakes
and reservoirs to be protected in the several river basins as
well as the numerical standards for potential pollutants in
these water bodies. The pollutant levels are intended to
protect the water bodies for their various uses.
The revisions to the regulations have been proposed by the
Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment’s Water
Quality Control Division, serving as staff to the commission;
the San Juan Citizen Alliance; Tri-State Generation and
Transmission; National Park Service and Mountain Coal Company.
Copies of the proposals are available on the
commission’s Web site or from the Water Quality Control
Commission office at (303) 692-3469.
Interested persons are encouraged to submit written
comments to the commission at or prior to the hearing, or to
provide oral comments at the hearing.
Any written comments should be submitted to Paul Frohardt,
administrator, Colorado Water Quality Commission, 4300 Cherry
Creek Drive South, Denver, 80246. Comments received by
Wednesday, May 31, will be distributed to commission members
for review prior to the hearing. Frohardt also can be reached
at (303) 692-3468.
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