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lution Control Commission, its agents, servants, and employees, shall cooperate with the Secretary of Interior and the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration in implementing the Arkansas Water Quality Standards and the non-degradation policy incorporated therein. In connection with such implementation, the Secretary of the Interior and the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration will be kept advised and will be provided with such information as they will need to discharge their responsibilities under the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That the Director of the Commission is hereby authorized and directed to take such action as may be necessary or appropriate to effectuate the foregoing.

Resolved the 25th day of October, 1968.

Resolved, That the statement adopted by the Arkansas Pollution Control Commission on October 25, 1968 concerning implementation of the Arkansas Water Quality Standards and the Federal Water Pollution Control non-degradation policy is hereby amended by adding a new paragraph immediately prior to the concluding paragraph thereof reading as follows:

Be It Further Resolved, That it is recognized that certain of the waters of the State possess an existing quality which is better than established standards. The quality of these waters will be maintained unless and until it has been affirmatively demonstrated to the Commission that any reduction in quality is justifiable as a result of necessary economic or social development.

Resolved the 28th day of March, 1969.

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Controlled by Arkansas State Boord of Health

MINERAL

QUALITY

MPLEMENTATION PLAN

The "action" plan of the standards is the plan of implementation and enforcement. For example, Arkansas regulations provide that the discharge of wastes into interstate waters or portions thereof, which reduces the quality of such waters below the water quality criteria established by regulation (whether the matter causing or contributing to such reductions is discharged directly into such waters or reaches such waters after discharge into tributaries of such waters) is subject to the abatement and enforcement provisions of the Arkansas Water and Air Pollution Control Act. The implementation plan sets forth the requirements for treatment and/or control of all conventional municipal and industrial waste discharges that affect Arkansas waters. It also specifies the time within which treatment of wastes is to be accomplished, and contains programs for dealing with other water pollution control problems. In general, the Arkansas standards call for a level of waste treatment or control that must be consistent with the stateof-the-art and best practicable industry standards, the minimum requirement being secondary treatment or equivalent, giving due regard to quality and flow of the receiving waters, the present, future and potential uses of such waters, economic feasibility, and other relevant factors. The installation of secondary treatment facilities or their equivalent for all municipal and industrial wastes is scheduled to be completed by the end of 1972. Detailed information on the treatment requirements for any particular waste water may be obtained from the Arkansas Pollution Control Commission.

This Commission is composed of eight members; five of these represent various state agencies directly concerned with pollution: the State Board of Health, Game and Fish Commission, Oil and Gas Commission, Soil and Water Conservation Commission, and State Forestry Commission. The other three members are appointed by the Governor with the approval of the State Senate, and represent industry, municipalities, and agricultural and livestock interests in the State.

Arkansas statutes provide for the control of water pollution on the basis of a permit system. Under this system an industry or municipality must submit complete plans and specifications for

waste treatment facilities to the Commission for approval and issuance of a permit before construction may commence. Industries are required to submit a process flow sheet showing each step in the industrial process, and a materials balance showing types and quantities of materials that go into and leave each step in the industrial process, including flow rates of water for present and proposed future operations. Industrial treatment facilities, as well as municipal, are checked as soon after construction as possible to assure compliance with the permit issued and to determine if efficiency of waste treatment is adequate.

The basis for most Commission enforcement and corrective activity is the basin survey. This is a part of a routine and continuous observation to check the efficiency of waste treatment plants and their effects on the receiving streams. The waste survey consists of twenty-four hour composite sampling of each municipal and industrial waste stream for five days with appropriate chemical analysis of each sample. Flows are measured continuously for ten days in order to obtain averages and extremes. Where treatment facilities exist, sampling is accomplished at each stage of treatment in order to obtain efficiencies and locate possible problems. Streams that receive these wastes are sampled on four different days above each point of discharge and at several points below, covering a sufficient distance to determine the nature and the extent of any damage to the watercourse. In addition to chemical analysis of the stream, a complete biological analysis is performed including classification and counts of plankton, bottom organisms, bacteria, and fish life. Upon completion of the field work, all engineering, chemical, and biological data is tabulated and a detailed report including procedures, results, and recommendations is submitted for Commission action.

The State has been divided into four districts based on concentrations of potential pollution sources. Field inspectors are responsible for periodic spot surveys of all significant wastewater discharges in their district plus monitoring of interstate and other streams for compliance with the standards.

The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission has at least two wildlife officers in each of the State's seventy-five counties who are on the alert for pollution, especially if it results in fish kills. The Fisheries Division also monitors the temperature of trout streams.

When abatement action becomes necessary, the sequence usually follows this pattern:

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For specific cases in response to complaints, or for irregularities found during routine inspection, or because of predicted overloads based on treatment plant files, the following sequence is normal:

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In the event of pollution immediately endangering the health and welfare of the public, the cease and desist order is issued immediately followed directly by litigation, if necessary.

The Arkansas portion of the Arkansas River navigation project will present potential pollution problems that involve barge accidents and oily and other discharges from vessels. Such problems will be handled in a manner similar to fish kills, depending on notification and reporting by wildlife officers of the Arkansas Game and Fish Commission, field inspectors of the Arkansas Pollution Control Commission, lock and dam personnel, marina operators and other private citizens. Sanitary discharges from navigation vessels are presently controlled statewide by the Arkansas State Board of Health under Rules and Regulations Pertaining to Marine Toilets and Disposal of Sewage from Boats. Of major importance is water quality degradation caused by natural brine emissions and by disposal of oil field brines in the watersheds of the Arkansas, Ouachita, and Red Rivers. In the Arkansas and Red Rivers, excessive mineral content results primarily from natural brine emissions upstream from the Arkansas boundary and eliminates use of these waters for drinking purposes.

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