REGULATORY

REGULATORY REQUIREMENT Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act and the implementing federal regulations at 40 C.F.R. §130.7 require the state to identify those waters within its jurisdiction for which effluent limitations are not sufficient to implement one or more applicable water quality standards and for which TMDLs are not yet completed. The state is to establish a priority ranking for such waters, taking into account the severity of the pollution and the designated uses to be made of such waters.