Okla. Admin. Code § 460:12-1-5

Current through Vol. 42, No. 8, January 2, 2025

Section 460:12-1-5 - Required elements of the Water Quality Standards Implementation Plan

(a) The WQSIP must reflect the following:

(1) Program compliance with antidegradation requirements; and

(2) Protection of beneficial uses by providing a general description of the processes, procedures and methodologies utilized to ensure that programs within the agency's jurisdictional areas of environmental responsibility:

(A) Comply with anti-degradation standards;

(B) Lead to maintenance of water quality where beneficial uses are supported;

(C) Remove threats to water quality where beneficial uses are in danger of not being supported; and

(D) Restoration of water quality where beneficial uses are not being supported.

(b) The WQSIP must follow the Use Support Assessment Protocols (USAP) which are the procedures to be utilized in the application of OAC 785:46-15 to make impairment determinations.

(c) The WQSIP must describe the programs affecting water quality with a description of pertinent programs within each jurisdictional area detailing the effect on surface and/or groundwater quality.

(d) The WQSIP must contain technical information, databases, and procedures to be utilized by the Department in compliance with WQSIP.

(e) The WQSIP must provide a description of how the plan is and/or will be integrated into the water quality management activities of the Department by including rules, program area policies and guidance, and/or standardized methods of conducting business.

(f) The WQSIP must describes how the Department is or will be complying with mandated statewide requirements affecting water quality developed by other state environmental agencies, including (but not limited to), total maximum daily load (TMDL) development, point source wastewater discharge permitting, and nonpoint source (NPS) pollution prevention programs.

(g) The WQSIP must indicate public participation by summarizing written comments and testimony received relative to all public meetings held for the purpose of providing public participation related to the WQSIP.

(h) The WQSIP must provide a description of methods and means to evaluate the effectiveness of activities conducted pursuant to WQSIP to achieve water quality standards.

(i) To the extent the required elements or items listed above will not result in a rule as defined by the Administrative Procedures Act, that information will be listed in the WQSIP.

Okla. Admin. Code § 460:12-1-5

Adopted by Oklahoma Register, Volume 38, Issue 24, September 1, 2021, eff. 9/11/2021