Code of Colorado Regulations
1000 - Department of Public Health and Environment
1002 - Water Quality Control Commission (1002 Series)
5 CCR 1002-31 - REGULATION NO. 31 - THE BASIC STANDARDS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR SURFACE WATER
Section 5 CCR 1002-31.41 - FINDINGS IN SUPPORT OF ADOPTION OF EMERGENCY REVISIONS TO REGULATION NO. 31, THE BASIC STANDARDS AND METHODOLOGIES FOR SURFACE WATER [5 CCR 1002-31]

The Commission adopted revisions to Regulation No. 31, The Basic Standards and Methodologies for Surface Water, on August 15, 2000.

The published version of Regulation No. 31 contains a number of typographical errors. The Water Quality Control Division uses the water quality standards in this regulation to calculate Colorado Discharge Permit System permit effluent limits. Where the Division must use the standards containing typographical errors, the permit limitations would be calculated incorrectly. Depending on the individual circumstances, this could lead to discharge of pollutants that might adversely impact public health. In other circumstances, a discharger might be forced to expend additional funds to meet an effluent limitation based on a published standard that contains typographical errors.

If the Commission does not adopt revisions to Regulation 31 on an emergency basis, discharge permits may be issued incorrectly; that would result in an unnecessary adverse impact on the public. The Commission finds that immediate adoption of these revisions to Regulation 31 is imperatively necessary to preserve public health and welfare and that compliance with the requirements of section 24-4-103, C.R.S., would be contrary to the public interest.