[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 32, Volume 4]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 32CFR650.58]

[Page 310]
 
                       TITLE 32--NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
              CHAPTER V--DEPARTMENT OF THE ARMY (CONTINUED)
 
PART 650--ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND ENHANCEMENT (AR 200-1)--Table of Contents
 
                  Subpart C--Water Resources Management
 
Sec. 650.58  Water quality standards.

    (a) Under the provisions of Pub. L. 92-500 it is the responsibility 
of the States to establish water quality standards and formulate an 
overall plan for achieving and enforcing these water quality standards. 
These criteria are based on the quality of water necessary to achieve 
and maintain use classifications of water such as recreation, fish and 
wildlife propagation, public water supply, and industrial and 
agricultural uses. States are also required to establish effluent 
discharge limitations necessary to achieve and maintain the desired use 
classification. For Army installations, implementation and enforcement 
of the applicable federally or State developed effluent limitations, and 
water quality standards are accomplished by the regional headquarters of 
the Environmental Protection Agency through the National Pollutant 
Discharge Elimination System.
    (b) The following effluent limitations are minimum standards which 
have been established pursuant to Pub. L. 92-500. More stringent 
effluent limitations may be established by the Administrator, EPA, to 
attain or maintain the water quality standards established by the State. 
Permissible effluent limitations, whether based on Federal or State 
water quality standards or on water quality criteria will be specified 
by the EPA Regional Administrator in the NPDES permit issued for each 
point of discharge.