Oklahoma § 82-896.10 - Agencies authorized to assist in maintaining and

§ 82-896.10. Agencies authorized to assist in maintaining and

improving water quality - Coordinated watershed restoration and

protection strategy

A. The Department of Environmental Quality, the Corporation

Commission, the Oklahoma Department of Agriculture, Food, and

Forestry, the Oklahoma Water Resources Board, the Department of

Wildlife Conservation and the Oklahoma Conservation Commission are

hereby given the authority to assist the Grand River Dam Authority

in maintaining and improving water quality and in preventing and

eliminating the pollution of waters within scenic rivers.

B. 1. The Secretary of Energy and Environment shall coordinate

with the appropriate state environmental agencies to create a

coordinated watershed restoration and protection strategy for each

impaired scenic river in this state.

2. The coordinated watershed restoration and protection

strategy shall identify all permitted or registered water pollution

sources and shall include but not be limited to:

a.

an overall pollutant-specific load reduction as

identified in a developed total maximum daily load

(TMDL), or as otherwise calculated in the absence of a

TMDL, to bring each impaired scenic river back into

compliance with water quality standards,

b.

pollutant-specific load reduction goals for each state

environmental agency to accomplish through its water

quality protection programs,

c.

detailed compliance schedules indicating how much of

the load reduction goal will be accomplished each year

by each state environmental agency,

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d.

industry-specific descriptions of how load reduction

goals for each state environmental agency will be

accomplished,

e.

an outline of innovative, cooperative intrastate and

interstate strategies that will be pursued in order to

expedite pollutant reductions, in particular where

scenic river watersheds cross state lines. Such

strategies may include nutrient trading and

conservation reserve enhancement program (CREP)

initiatives, and

f.

a list of all permitted or registered water pollution

sources subject to the jurisdiction of each state

agency within each impaired scenic river watershed,

including the following information :

(1) types of operations or organizations regulated,

(2) list of the registrations or permits issued,

(3) details on governmental assistance given, and

(4) details of enforcement actions undertaken.

C. 1. For those impaired scenic river watersheds where a TMDL

for phosphorus has been developed, the Department of Environmental

Quality shall initially allocate a wasteload for phosphorus for

discharges from wastewater treatment facilities which enter the

scenic river which is achievable by the best available waste control

process.

2. The Secretary of Energy and the Environment shall evaluate

methods to reduce the contribution of phosphorus to impaired scenic

rivers from non-point sources identified by a TMDL.

D. 1. The Grand River Dam Authority shall require all

commercially operated flotation device operations and campgrounds

using scenic rivers for recreational activities to implement a

program to control the amount of pollution entering a scenic river

that is impaired by recreational activities.

2. The Grand River Dam Authority shall include in the

coordinated watershed restoration and protection strategy an

identification of the pollution from recreational activities and

those actions taken and planned to reduce the amount of pollution.

E. If the Legislature or the Governor finds that any of the

state environmental agencies have failed to appropriately protect

water quality standards in an impaired scenic river watershed, the

Governor and the Legislature shall take any and all necessary and

appropriate action to help the agency to meet its responsibilities.

Added by Laws 1970, c. 68, § 7, emerg. eff. March 17, 1970. Amended

by Laws 1993, c. 145, § 335, eff. July 1, 1993; Laws 1997, c. 241, §

10, eff. July 1, 1997; Laws 2002, c. 148, § 1, emerg. eff. April 29,

2002; Laws 2016, c. 297, § 13, eff. July 1, 2016. Renumbered from §

1457 of this title by Laws 2016, c. 297, § 30, eff. July 1, 2016.

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