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Show The primary purpose of this volume is to make legal information that has an impact on the development of water and related resources of the Colorado River Basin States readily available to interested Upper Basin parties. Water Quality Act of 1965 As predicted in the Sixteenth Annual Report of the Upper Colorado River Commission, Public Law 660, the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, was amended in the first session of the 89th Congress. The Bill, S.4, became the "Water Quality Act of 1965." Major changes were made by the legislation. Only brief mention can be made here of the new changes in the law. The Public Health Service will no longer guide the program. A new Federal Water Pollution Control Administration was created to administer it. Provisions were made in the law for the establishment of water quality standards for interstate waters. The above, of course, are only the highlights of this legislation. Our legal staff will keep itself and the Commission fully informed concerning new developments in this field. Federal Water Project Recreation Act Public Law 89-72, the "Federal Water Project Recreation Act," was enacted primarily to establish procedures for the treatment of the costs of recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement in planning federal, multi-purpose water resource projects. It also provides for a sharing of these costs by local, State, and Federal entities. This new law is of particular importance to the Upper Colorado River Basin, because, for projects to be authorized in the future, it probably supersedes the terms of Section 8 of the Colorado River Storage Project Act under which recreation and fish and wildlife costs are nonreimbursable. Also, Section 8 of the "Federal Water Project Recreation Act" provides that after July 1, 1966, the Secretary of the Interior is forbidden to prepare any feasibility report with respect to a water resource project unless such report has been specifically authorized by an Act of the Congress. The chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs of the U. S. House of Representatives summarized this highly technical law during floor debates by saying: 37 |