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Show physical and biological integrity of Utah's waters. Objectives designed to achieve this mission are: • Classify waters according to beneficial use and set water quality standards, including numeric and narrative criteria, to protect those uses; • Achieve full compliance with treatment and water quality standards by ensuring the adequacy of planning, design, construction, and operation of municipal and industrial wastewater standards through appropriate technical assistance, regulation and enforcement; • Develop and update pertinent regulations, policies, and strategies; • Generate a comprehensive water quality data base; • Conduct water quality management planning and continue to implement an effective statewide non- point source control program; • Implement the ground water quality protection strategy. Division of Air Quality The Division of Air Quality ( DAQ) facilitates Air Quality Board members as proactive participants in addressing air pollution issues and in shaping environmental policy. The following objectives support DAQ's mission: • Involve others in the process; develop state implementation plans ( SIP), issue permits, compliance and other public process activities. • Partner with other in- state government agencies to develop and implement programs for the protection of air quality statewide and achieve and maintain acceptable air quality along the Wasatch Front. Maintain delegation of federal air quality programs by developing appropriate plans, programs, policies, procedures and rules. Influence state, regional and national policy through active involvement with the legislature and policy making organizations. Increase public awareness to educate the general public and businesses on emissions reduction. State Ownership and Trust Responsibilities Under English common law, the Crown held title to all lands underlying navigable waterways, subject to the Public Trust Doctrine. Following the American Revolution, title to such lands in the United States vested in the 13 original colonies. Under the Equal Footing Doctrine, fee title to those lands also vested in each state subsequently admitted to the Union, upon admission. Utah's public trust lands, known as " sovereign" lands, lie below the ordinary high water mark of navigable bodies. The boundaries of sovereign lands are established by the location of the ordinary high water mark of a water body. For the ocean and most rivers and lakes, the ordinary high water mark is relatively constant, and can be identified reliably from year to year. Because rivers and streams establish many important boundaries and can move over time, the common law doctrine of reliction and accretion holds that slow, gradual movement of a river or stream course over time will result in relocation of the property boundary to follow the movement. Sudden changes in course, as 10 |