TD370.E585
M553
&EPA
United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of Water
Regulations and Standards
Washington, D.C. 20460
July 1980
              Water
Mercury
                                  OOOR80005
              Water Quality Standards
              Criteria Digest
              A Compilation
              of State/Federal Criteria

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               NATIONAL SUMMARY




                       OF




         STATE WATER QUALITY STANDARDS








                    MERCURY








                    JULY, 1980











                  PREPARED FOR




UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY




         CRITERIA AND STANDARDS DIVISION




                401 M STREET, S. W.




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Introduction

This digest  was compiled to provide general information to the public as well as
to Federal,  State, and local officials.  It  contains excerpts from  the individual
State-Federal water quality standards establishing pollutant specific criteria for
navigable surface waters.  The  water quality standards program is implemented
by the U.S.   Environmental Protection Agency where responsibility for providing
water quality recommendations, approving State-adopted standards for navigable
waters, evaluating adherence to the standards, and overseeing enforcement of
standards compliance, has been mandated by Congress,

The  standards  program,  a  nationwide  strategy  for  surface   water  quality
management, contains two major elements:  the use {recreation, drinking  water,
fish  and  wildlife propagation,  industrial, or  agricultural)  to  be  made  of  the
navigable water; and criteria to  protect these uses.

Water  quality  criteria  (numerical  or  narrative specifications  for  physical,
chemical, temperature, and biological constituents are stated  in  the July 1976
U.S. Environmental Protection  Agency  publication Quality Criteria for  Water
(QCW), order #  055-001-01049-4,  price $3.50, available from  the Government
Printing Office, Washington, D.C.  The 1976 QCW, commonly referred to as the
"Red Book," is the most current  compilation of scientific information used  by the
Agency as a basis  for  assessing water quality.  This  publication is subject to
periodic   updating  and  revisions  in light  of  new   scientific  and  technical
information.

Mercury is an element which is not biologically essential  or beneficial.  It has
been  detected  in  unpolluted  rivers.   However,  toxic levels   are  generally
attributed to mining and agricultural activities, and  to a larger extent waste
discharges from wood processing facilities.  Mercury can exist in  several forms
ranging from elemental to  dissolved inorganic  and  organic species.   Special
significance  is given to elemental mercury since it can be metabolically  and
biochemically converted into highly toxic organomercurie complexes.  Several
of the  mercury  species also  have a high bioconcentrating factor in the aquatic
environment and  considerations must  be given to the food chain  transport
resulting in human consumption of contaminated fish.

The 1976 Quality Criteria for Water recommends the following:

     20 ug/l(total)    for domestic water supply (health);
     0.05 ug/1 (total) for freshwater aquatic life and wildlife;
     0.10 ug/1 (total) for marine aquatic life.

Since  water  quality  standards are  revised  from time  to  time, following
procedures set forth in the Clean Water Act, individual  entries in this digest  may
be superseded.   This digest will be updated periodically. Because this publication
is intended for use only as  a general information reference, the reader needs to
refer to  the current approved  water quality standards to obtain  the  latest
information  for  special purposes and applications.  These can be obtained from
the State  water  pollution control agencies or the EPA Regional Offices.

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                         REFERENCES
     California Water Quality Standards by River Basins, c.a. 1975

     For more detailed information on selected basins, sub-basins
     and stretches  of streams and coastal areas refer to California
     State Water Quality Standards.
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     Delaware Water Quality Standards, March 25, 1979
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     Idaho Water Quality Standards, c.a. September, 1979

     Missouri Water Quality Standards, c.a. February, 1978
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     American Samoa Water Quality Standards,
     Revised July, 1973

     Territory of Guam Water Quality Standards, Sept. 1975
s*\
     Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands  Water Quality
     Standards, October 21, 1973
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     Virgin Islands Water Quality Standards, Aug. 1973
ENVIRONMENT REPORTER, The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.
Washington, D. C. 20037

1    Pages 701:0501-0509, February 16, 1979

2    Pages 706:1004-1008, July 20, 1979

3    Pages 711-0542-0544, August 5, 1977

4    Pages 716:0603, March 26, 1976

5    Pages 726-:1005, 1011-1013, March 7, 1980

     Basic Water Quality Standards adopted May 22, 1979,
     have not yet been submitted to EPA for formal approval.

6    Pages 731:1002-1009, September 8, 1978

7    Pages 746:1008-1014, October 19, 1979

8    Pages 751:0504-0505, January 25, 1980

9    Pages 765:0512-0515, January 30, 1976

10   Page  761:0503-0504, 1973

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11   Page 766:0504-0509, October 5, 1979


12   Pages 771:0502-0504, September 29, 1978


13   Pages 776:0504-0506, April 10, 1979


14   Pages 781:0501-0502, May 18, 1979


15   Pages 786:0501-0502, August 29, 1975


16   Page 791:0583, May 26, 1978


17   Pages 796:0103-0108, February 16, 1979


18   Pages 801:1001-1002, Sept. 29, 1978

1 q
     Page 806:1003, March 30, 1979


20   Page 811:1043, 1974


21   Pages 816:0602-0607, 0642-0648, 1974

99
     Pages 821:0502-0505, June 30, 1978


23   Pages 831:0501-0510, February 21, 1975

94.
^   Page 836:0502, June 30, 1978


25   Pages 841:0507-0537, December 7, 1979


26   Pages 846:0501-0508, November 17, 1978

97
     Pages 851:1001-1023, December 15, 1978


28   Pages 856:1001-1002, July 18, 1978

90
     Pages 861:1002-1007, August 11, 1979

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     Pages 866:1004-1009, December 28, 1979


31   Pages 871:0501-0506, November 25, 1977

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     Pages 876-1001-1043, May 26, 1978

09
13    Pages 881:1001-1007, September 21, 1979

Q.4
*    Pages 886:0513-0524, August 29, 1975

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     Pages 891:1001-1129, November 16, 1979

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36   Pages 901:0501-0505, November 3, 1978
97
     Pages 906:0501:0506, October 13, 1978
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     Pages 911:0501-0507, June 22, 1979
on
     Pages 916:0541-0544, April 14, 1978

4fl
     Pages 921:1001-1003, August 13, 1976

41   Pages 926:0541-0563, January 26, 1979
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     Pages 931:0501-0508, May 26, 1978

4°,
     Pages 936:1001-1003, June 27, 1975

44   Pages 941:1001-1005, May 26, 1978
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     Pages 946:0501-0520, July 14, 1978

4fi
     Pages 951:1002-1003, April 28, 1978

47   Pages 956:1001-1007, January 11, 1980

48   Page 741:1002, November 23, 1979

49
     Pages 896:0301-0310, March 31, 1978

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                                        MERCURY
State
Alabama
        1.
Criteria in mg/1

Not Specified

Toxic  Substances  narrative:   only such
amounts, whether alone or in combination
with other substances as will not render
the  waters  unsafe or  unsuitable as  a
source  of  water  supply  for drinking or
food-processing purposes,  or injurious to
fish, wildlife and aquatic life.

Toxic  Substances  narrative:   only such
amounts, whether alone or in combination
with other substances or  wastes,  as  will
not:   render  the water unsafe  or  unsuit-
able  for  swimming  and   water-contact
sports;  be  injurious to fish,  wildlife  and
aquatic life  or, where applicable, shrimp
and crabs; impair the waters for any other
usage established for this classification.

Toxic  substances narrative:   Only such
amounts, whether alone or in combination
with other  substances,  as  will  not:   be
injurious to fish and aquatic life, including
shrimp and crabs; exceed one-tenth of the
96-hour median tolerance limit for fish,
aquatic life  or shellfish, including shrimp
and crabs.

Toxic  Substances narrative:   Only such
amounts, whether alone or in combination
with other  substances,  as  will  not:   be
injurious to fish and aquatic life including
shrimp  and  crabs  in  estuarine  or  salt
waters or the propagation thereof; not to
exceed  one-tenth of the 96-hour  median
tolerance limit for  fish and  aquatic  life
including  shrimp  and crabs  in  salt  and
estuarine   waters  except   that   other
limiting concentrations may be used when
factually justified and  approved  by  the
Commission.

Only such amounts as will not render the
waters  unsuitable for  agricultural irriga-
tion, livestock watering, industrial cool-
ing,  industrial process  water supply pur-
poses, and fish survival, nor interfere with
downstream uses.
Designated Stream Use

AU

Public water supply
                                                                 Swimming and  other  whole
                                                                 body water-contact sports
                                                                 Shellfish harvesting
                                                                 Fish and wildlife
                                                                 Agricultural  and industrial
                                                                 water supply

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State
Alabama (con't)
Criteria in mg/1

Only such  amounts as will not render the
waters unsuitable  for  industrial cooling
and industrial process  water supply pur-
poses,  nor interfere  with   downstream
water uses.

Only such  amounts as will not render the
waters unsuitable for agricultural irriga-
tion, livestock watering, industrial cool-
ing, and  industrial process  water supply
purposes,  where  applicable  nor  interfere
with downstream water use.
Designated Streajii Use

Industrial operations
                                                                 Navigation
Alaska"'
Not specified

Toxic  substances  narrative:   shall  not
exceed Alaska Drinking Water Standards
or EPA Quality Criteria for Water.
                    Toxic substances narrative:   same as I.
                    (A) (i) where contact with a product  des-
                    tined for subsequent human  consumption
                    is present.   Same  as  I. (C)  or FWPCA
                    Water Quality  Criteria as applicable  to
                    substances  for  stockwaters.   Concentra-
                    tions  for   irrigation  waters  shall  not
                    exceed FWPCA Water Quality Criteria or
                    WQC 1972.
                    Toxic substances  narrative:   shall not
                    individually or in combination exceed 0.01
                    times the lowest  measured  96-hour LC
                    for life stages of species identified by tne
                    department as being the most  sensivtive,
                    biologically important  to the situation or
                    exceed  criteria  cited  in  EPA Quality
                    Criteria  for  \Vater  or  Alaska Drinking
                    Water Standards whichever  concentration
                    is less.                             '

                    Toxic substances  narrative:   substances
                    shall not be present which pose  hazards to
                    worker contact.
All

I.  Fresh water
   (A)  water supply
        (i) drinking, culinary
and food processing

        (ii) agriculture, includ-
ing irrigation  and  stock
watering
                                                     (iii) aquaculture
                                                     (iv)  industrial, includ-
                                              ing any water supplies used
                                              in association with a manu-
                                              facturing  or  production
                                              enterprise other than  food
                                              processing),    including
                                              mining,   placer   mining,
                                              energy production or deve-
                                              lopment
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State

Alaska  (con't)
Criteria Values in mg/1

Toxic substances narrative: same as I. (A)
(i.)
Designated Stream Use

   (B) water recreation
        (i) contact recrea-
        tion.
                   Toxic  substances narrative: substances
                   shall not be present  which pose hazards to
                   incidental human contact.

                   Toxic  substances  narrative:  shall not in-
                   dividually or  in combination exceed  0.01
                   times  the lowest  measured 96 hour LC
                   for life stages of species identified by tne
                   department as being the most sensitive,
                   biologically important to the  location, or
                   exceed criteria cited in EPA Quality  Cri-
                   teria for Water or Alaska Drinking Water
                   Standards whichever concentration is less.

                   Toxic  substances narrative: same as I. (A)
                   (iii).
                   Toxic substances narrative:  shall not ex-
                   ceed EPA Quality Criteria  for  Water  as
                   applicable to the substance.

                   Toxic substances narrative:
                   same as I. (A) (iv).
                   Toxic  substances  narrative:   same as II.
                   (A) (ii).
                   Toxic substances narrative:  same as I. (B)
                   (ii).
                   Toxic substances narrative:
                   same as I. (C).
                                                     (ii) secondary
                                                     recreation
                                                 (C)  growth  and propa-
                                             gation  of fish,  shellfish,
                                             other  aquatic  life, and
                                             wildlife   including  water-
                                             fowl and furbearers
                                             n.Marine water
                                                 (A) water supply
                                                  (i) aquaculture

                                                  (ii) seafood processing
                                                 (iii) industrial, including
                                             any  water  supplies  used
                                             in   association    with   a
                                             manufacturing or production
                                             enterprise   (other   than
                                             food  processing)  including
                                             mining,   placer    mining,
                                             energy   production     or
                                             development

                                                 (B) water recreation

                                                     (i) contact
                                                     recreation

                                                     (ii) secondary
                                                        recreation

                                                 (C)  growth  and propa-
                                             gation  of  fish,  shellfish,
                                             aquatic  life,  and wildlife
                                             including seabirds,  water-
                                             fowl and furbearers
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State

Alaska (con't)



Arizona
Arkansas
        4
          A
California
Criteria Values in mg/1

Toxic substances narrative:same as I. (C)
but  excluding  the phrase   "or   Alaska.
Drinking Water Standards."

.005
Toxic  substances  narrative:  Toxic  sub-
stances shall be kept below levels which
are deleterious to  human, animal, plant or
aquatic life, or in amounts  sufficient  to
interfere  with the beneficial use  of  the
water.  As a minimum evaluation for  the
presence  of toxic  substances,  a water
shall  be evaluated by  use of a  96-hour
bioassay,  guided by the  document Stan-
dard Methods for the Examination of Wa-
ter and Wastewater.  The survival of the
test organisms shall not be less than that
in controls  which  utilize appropriate  ex-
perimental water.

Not specified

Toxic substances narrative:  Toxic mate-
rials attributable to municipal, industrial,
agricultural, or other  waste discharges,
shall not be present in receiving waters in
such quanitities as to  be toxic to human,
animal, plant  or aquatic  life or  to inter-
fere with the normal propagation of aqua-
tic life.  For  any toxicants,  concentra-
tions in the receiving waters after mixing
shall not exceed 0.01 of the 96-hour TLm>
unless they can  be shown  to  be  non-
persistant   and noncumulative,   and  to
exhibit no  synergistic interactions  with
other waste or stream components.  In no
case shall concentrations exceed 0.05 of
the 96-hour TL
                                 m
0.005
                   0.00014 - 6-month Median

                   0.00056 - Daily Maximum

                   0.0014 - Instantaneous Maximum
Designated Stream Use

   (D) harvesting for  con-
sumption  of raw  mollusks
or other raw aquatic life

Domestic,   industrial,  re-
creation,  aesthetic,  fish,
aquatic life  and wildlife

All
AU

AU
Domestic Water Supply

Ocean Waters only
                                         -A-

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State

California
  (con't)
Colorado"
Criteria in mg/1

All waters shall  be maintained  free of
toxic  substances  in  concentrations  that
are toxic to, or that produce detrimental
physiological responses  in  human, plant,
animal, or aquatic life.  Compliance with
this objective will be determined by use
of  indicator  organisms,   analyses  of
species  diversity,   population   density,
growth anomalies,  bioassays  of  appro-
priate  duration   or  other  appropriate
methods  as  specified   by  the  Regional
Board.

The  survival of  aquatic life  in  surface
waters subjected  to  a waste discharge, or
other controllable water quality  factors,
shall  not be  less  than that for the same
water body  in areas unaffected  by the
waste discharge,  or when  necessary for
other  control  water  that is consistent
with  the requirements  for  "experimental
water" as described in "Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water and Waste-
water", latest  edition.   As a  minimum,
compliance with  this objective as stated
in the previous sentence shall be evalu-
ated with a 96-hour bioassay.

In addition,  effluent limits  based  upon
acute bioassays of effluents will  be pre-
scribed  where  appropriate,   additional
numerical  receiving water  objectives for
specific  toxicants  will be  established as
sufficient  data  become  available,   and
source control  of  toxic substances will be
encouraged.

0.00005

0.002

Toxic  substances  narrative:   Substances
attributable to human-induced discharges
not otherwise  controlled  by permits,
BMP's, or plans of operation approved by
the Division, shall not be introduced into
the waters of the  State...in amounts, con-
centrations, or combinations  which are...
toxic  to humans, animals, plants, or aqua-
tic life.
Designated Stream Use

All
Aquatic life

Domestic Water Suppy

All
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State
Connecticut
Delaware
         B
Criteria in mg/1

Not specified

Toxic substances narrative:  Note 4.  The
waters shall be free from chemical cons-
tituents in concentrations or combinations
which would be harmful to human, animal
or aquatic life for the most sensitive and
governing water  use  class.  Criteria  for
chemical  constitutes  contained  in the
Quality Criteria for Water (EPA) shall be
considered and used as guidance.  In areas
where fisheries are the governing conside-
rations and approved limits have not been
established, bioassays  are necessary to
establish limits on toxic  substances, the
recommendations for bioassay procedures
contained  in  "Standard Methods for the
Examination  of  Water and  Wastewater"
and the application factors contained, in
Quality Criteria for Water (EPA) shall be
considered.   For public  drinking  water
supplies, the raw water sources  must be
of such  a quality that  EPA limits as
defined by the  Safe  Drinking Water Act
(PL 93-523), or state limits if more strin-
gent,  for finished water can  be met after
conventional treatment.

Toxic substances narrative:  None in con-
centrations or combinations  which would
be harmful to human, animal or  aquatic
life or which  would make the waters  un-
safe or unsuitable for fish or shellfish or
their propagation or impair the waters for
any other uses. (See Note 4. above).

Not specified

Toxic substances narrative:  None in con-
centrations harmful  (synergistically  or
otherwise) to   humans, fish,  wildlife and
aquatic life   as  presecribed  by EPA's
Quality Criteria for Water, 1976.
Designated Stream Use

AU

All
                                                                Coastal and marine
                                                                water uses
All

All
Florida
0.0002
All except shellfish harvest-
ing and marine  recreations
and propagation of fish  and
wildlife

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State

Florida (con't)
       o
Georgia
Criteria in mg/1

0.0001
Minimum  criteria  for  all  waters at  all
times at all places:  shall be free from
domestic, industrial, agricultural, or other
man-induced non-thermal  components of
discharges  which, alone or in combination
with  other  components  of  discharges
(whether  thermal  or  non-thermal)  are
acutely toxic;  or are present in concen-
trations  which  are carcinogenic, muta-
genic,  or teratogenic to human  beings or
to significant  locally  occurring, wildlife
or aquatic  species; or pose a serious dan-
ger to the public health,  safety, or wel-
fare.

General  criteria   for  toxic  substances
(applied  to  all  surface   waters  except
within zones of  mixing):  substances in
concentrations which injure, are chroni-
cally toxic to,  or produce  adverse physio-
logical or behavioral response in humans,
animals, or plants - none shall be present.

Not specified

Toxic substances narrative:   No material
or substance in such concentration that,
after   treatment,   would  exceed   the
requirements of the Environmental  Pro-
tection Division and the latest edition of
the Federal Drinking Water Standards.

Toxic wastes narrative:  None in concen-
trations that would harm  man,  fish  and
game or other beneficial aquatic  life.
                   Toxic   substance   narrative:      None
                   in concentrations that would prevent fish
                   survival.
Designated Stream Use

Shellfish harvesting and  ma-
rine recreation  and propaga-
tion of fish and wildlife

AU
                                                                 AU
AU

Drinking water supplies
Recreation; fishing, propa-
gation of fish, shellfish,
game and other aquatic
life

Agricultural:  industrial;
navigation

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State

Georgia  (con't)
Hawaii
Idaho
     10
Criteria in mg/1

Toxic  substances  narrative:   Free from
toxic substances discharged from  munici-
palities, industries  or other  sources  in
amounts, concentrations or combinations
which are  harmful to  humans, animals or
aquatic life.

Not specified

Toxic  substances  narrative:   All  waters
shall be free of substances attributable to
domestic, industrial, or other  controllable
sources as follows:   toxic  substances  at
levels or  combinations  sufficient to  be
toxic or harmful  to  human, animal, plant
or aquatic  life or in amounts sufficient to
interfere with any beneficial  use  of  the
water.  As a  minimum, evaluation by use
of a  96-hour  bioassay described  in  the
most  recent edition of Standard Methods
for the Examination of Water  and  Waste-
water shall be conducted. Survival of test
organisms  shall not  be less than that in
controls which utilize  appropriate experi-
mental water.

Not specified

0.002

The following general  water quality stan-
dards will  apply  to  waters of the State,
both surface and  underground, in addition
to the water  quality standards set forth
for specifically classified waters.  Manual
Sections 1-2200.04 —1-2200.06 will, how-
ever, apply only to surface waters.  As a
result of   man-caused point  or  nonpoint
source  discharge,  waters  of the  State
must  not contain:  (1-30-80)

.01  Hazardous   Materials.    Hazardous
materials (see Manual Section 1-2003.17)
in concentrations found  to be of public
health significance or  to adversely affect
designated or  protected beneficial uses.
(1-30-80)
Designated Stream Use

AU
AU

AU
AU
                                                                Domestic Water Supplies
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State
Criteria in mg/1
Designated Stream Use
Idaho (con't)
Illinois11
Indiana
.02  Deleterious  Materials;  Deleterious
materials (see Manual Section 1-2003.06)
in concentrations that impair designated
or protected beneficial uses without being
hazardous.
(1-30-80)

0.0005

Waters shall meet the following standard
at any point at which water is withdrawn:
water shall be of such quality  that with
treatment consisting of coagulation, sedi-
mantation, filtration,  storage and  chlori-
nation, or other equivalent treatment pro-
cesses, the treated water shall meet in all
respects 0.0002 (Treated)

Toxic  substances narrative:   Freedom
from matter in concentrations or  combi-
nations toxic  to  human, animal, plant or
aquatic life of other than national origin.
Any substance toxic to aquatic life shall
not exceed  0.1 of the 96-hour TLm  for
native fish or essential fish food organisms.

Not Specified

0.00005 - Lake Michigan and Contiguous
Harbor Areas
                   0.0005 - Grand Calumet River and Indiana
                   Harbor and Ship Canal
                   Toxic substances narrative: free from sub
                   stances attributable to municipal, indus-
                   trial,  agricultural,  and  other land  use
                   practices or other discharges which are in
                   amounts sufficient to be toxic to humans,
                   animals, aquatic  life  or  plants.   As  a
                   guideline, toxic substances should be li-
                   mited  to the 96-hour median lethal  con-
                   centration (LC50) for biota significant to
                   the indigenous aquatic community.
AU

Public and  food processing
water supply
                                                                AU
AU

Whole    Body
Aquatic   life,
water   supply,
water supply
                                                                                  Contact,
                                                                                 Domestic
                                                                                 industrial
                                             Partial    Body    Contact,
                                             Limited    Aquatic    life,
                                             industrial water supply.

                                             AU

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State

Indiana (con't)
Iowa
    13
Kansas
       14
Criteria in mg/1

Toxic substances narrative:  shall not ex-
ceed  0.1  of the  96-hour median lethal
concentration  for  important  indigenous
aquatic species.  More stringent applica-
tion factors shall be  used when justified.
Concentrations  of organic contaminants
which  can be demonstrated  to be  persis-
tent,  to  have  a tendency to  bioconeen-
trate in the aquatic biota, and are likely
to  be  toxic on the  basis  of available
scientific  evidence,  shall be  limited  as
determined by the Board.

Toxic substances narrative:  shall not  be
present after conventional treatment in
such levels  as  to prevent  meeting  the
Drinking Water  Standards adopted by the
Indiana State Board of Health or  by the
Indiana    Environmental    Management
Board.

0.05
                   0.002
Designated Stream Use

Aquatic life; fish
                                                                Potable supply
Wildlife, fish, aquatic and
semiaquatic life, secondary
contact

Potable Water Supply

AU
                   Toxic substances narrative: All waters, at
                   all times, at all places shall be free from
                   substances attributable to wastewater discharges or agricultural practices in
                   concentrations or combinations which are
                   toxic or  harmful  to  human,  animal, or
                   plant life.
Toxic  substances  narrative:    all  sub-
stances toxic or detrimental  to aquatic
life shall be  limited to non-toxic or non-
detrimental  concentrations  in  surface
waters.

Toxic substances narrative: all substances
toxic  to humans shall  be limited to non-
toxic concentrations.

Not specified

General  criteria:    the  individual  and
cumulative effect of waste discharges to
waters shall be guided  by both the  pri-
mary  and  secondary drinking  water regu-
lations (40 CFR 141) and EPA criteria for
                                                                 Wildlife,  fish, aquatic and
                                                                 semiaquatic life and secon-
                                                                 dary contact
Potable water supply



AU

AU
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State
Criteria in mg/1
                                             Designated Stream Use
Kansas (con't)
Kentucky
          15
water  quality.    Pollutional  substances
contributed by man-made sources shaU be
controlled so  that  all  waters  are free
from public health hazards  or nuisance
conditions at all times.

Toxic substances narrative:  Toxic sub-      AU
stances  or  toxic synergistic  effects  of
substances from  man-made sources shall
be  limited  to  concentrations  in the re-
ceiving water that will not be harmful to
animal, plant or aquatic life.
0.00005

0.002

Surface waters shall not be aesthetically
or otherwise degraded by substances that
injure,  be toxic  to  or produce  adverse
physiological  or  behavioral responses in
humans, fish, shellfish, and aquatic life.

The  allowable instream concentration of
toxic  substances,  including  pesticides,
shall  not  exceed  0.01  of the  96-hour
median lethal concentration (LCr0) or 0.1
of the  96-hour LC _0  for  noncumulative
and nonpersistent  toxic  materials using a
representative    indigenous     aquatic
organism.
                                              Warmwater Aquatic habitat

                                              Domestic water supply

                                              AU
                                                                 Warmwater aquatic
                                                                 habitat
Louisiana
         16
Not specified                                 AU

Toxic  substances  narrative:  free  from      AU
such concentrations of  substances attri-
butable  to  waste  water or  other  dis-
charges sufficient to injure or are toxic or
produce  adverse  physiological  response in
humans,  animals, fish, shellfish, wildlife,
or plants.

Shall  not  be present in quantities that
alone or in combination  will be toxic to
animal or plant life.  In all cases the level
shaU not exceed the TLm 96/10.  Bioassay
techniques will be used in evaluating toxi-
city utilizing methods and species  of test
organisms suitable to the purpose at hand.
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State

Louisiana
  (con't)
Maine
      17
Maryland
         18
Massachusetts
             19
Criteria in mg/1

Toxic  substances  shall  not  exceed  the
levels established  by the USPHS drinking
water standards latest edition.

Not specified

Toxic substances narrative: no waste sub-
stances containing chemical constituents
which would be harmful  to humans, ani-
mal or aquatic life.

Not specified

Toxic substances narrative:  at all  times
free from toxic substances attributable to
sewage, industrial waste, or other  waste
in concentrations  or combinations  which
are harmful to human,  animal,  plant or
aquatic life.

Not specified

Toxic  substances  narrative:   free  from
pollutants in concentrations or combina-
tions that are toxic  to humans or aquatic
life.

For each class, the most sensitive benefi-
cial uses are identified and minimum  cri-
teria  for  water  quality in  the  water
column are established.   The minimum
criteria in Reg. 3.4 have been developed
by applying the criteria contained in the
EPA  publication  Quality  Criteria  for
Water (EPA-440/9-76-023) to account for
local conditions including, but  not limited
to:

(a)  The characteristics of the biological
community
                   (b)    Temperature,  weather
                   characteristics, and
                               and  flow
                   (c)  Synergistic  and antagonistic effects
                   of combinations of pollutants.

                   The Division will use the EPA publication
                   entitled  Quality  Criteria   for   Water,
                   EPA-440/9-76-023 as guidance in establi-
                   shing  case-by-case  discharge limits for
Designated Stream Use

Public water supply



All

AU
All

AU
AU

AU
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State
Criteria in mg/1
Designated Stream Use
Massachusettes
  (con't)
Michigan
         20
Minnesota
         21
pollutants  not  specifically listed in these
standards but included under the heading
"Other  Constituents"  in Regulation  3.4,
for   identifying   bioassay    application
factors and for interpretations of narra-
tive criteria.   Where the  minimum  cri-
teria specifically  listed by  a Division in
this part  differ from  those contained in
the federal criteria, the provisions of the
specifically listed criteria in these stan-
dards shall apply.

Not Specified.

Toxic substances narrative: (1) toxicity of
undefined toxic substances not included in
(2)  and (3)  below  shall be determined by
development of 96-hour TLm's  or  other
appropriate effect end points obtained by
continuous-flow or in situ  bioassays using
suitable test organisms. Shall not exceed
safe  concentrations  as determined by
applying an application factor,  based on
knowledge of behavior of toxic substances
and  organisms  to  be  protected, to  the
TLm  or  other  appropriate  effect  end
point.

(2)  defined toxic  substances shall be
limited by  application  of recommenda-
tions  contained in the chapter on  Fresh-
water Organisms, Report of the NTAC to
Secretary of the Interior,  WQC, 1968, or
by application  of any toxic effluent stan-
dard, limitation or  prohibition promul-
gated by EPA  pursuant  to section 307(a)
of PL92-500,  whichever is more restric-
tive.

(3) shall  not exceed the permissible inor-
ganic chemicals  criteria for raw  public
water  supply in Report of the NTAC to
Secretary of the Interior, WQC, 1968.

Not Specified

96-hour TLm for indigenous fish and  fish
food organisms should  not be  exceeded at
any point in the mixing zone.
AU

All
                                                                 AU
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State

Minnesota
  (cont't)
          22
Mississippi
Missouri
       .D
Montana
         23
Criteria Values in mg/1

Toxic substances narrative:   none at le-
vels  acutely toxic  to humans or  other
animals or plant life.

Toxic substances narrative: none at levels
harmful either directly or indirectly.

0.002

Toxic  substances  narrative:   free  from
substances  attributable to municipal, in-
dustrial,  agricultural or other discharges
in concentrations  or combinations which
are  toxic  to humans,  animal or  other
aquatic life.

Toxic substances narrative:   the  concen-
tration of  toxic pollutants shall  not  ex-
ceed  0.1 of the 96-hour  TLm based  on
available data.

0.00005

0.002

All waters, at all times shall be free from
substances   or   conditions  that  have  a
harmful  effect on  human,  animal,  or
aquatic life.

Not completely specified

1 ug/1 (total) Average Daily concentration;
1  ug/1 (total)  Maximum  Instantaneous
Concentration
Designated Stream Use

All
Agriculture and wildlife
(Class B)

Public Water Supply

AU
                                                                Shellfish Harvesting
                                                                Recreation, fish and
                                                                wildlife.
Aquatic life

Drinking Water Supply
All

Metal  limits for  the  Clark
Fork River (mainstem) from
the  confluence   of   Warm
Springs Creek to the conflu-
ence    with    Cottonwood
Creek
                   1   ug/1   (total)Average  Daily  Concen-
                   tration;  1 ug/1 (total)Maximum  instant-
                   aneous Concentration
                                             Metal  limits for Clark Fork
                                             River  (mainstem) from the
                                             confluence  of  Cottonwood
                                             Creek to  the  Idaho  State
                                             line
                   Toxic  substances narrative:   free  from
                   substances attributable  to  municipal, in-
                   dustrial,  agricultural  practices  or other
                                             AU
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State
Criteria Values in mg/1
Designated Stream Use
Montana
  (cont't)
Nebraska
         24
Nevada
       25
discharges that will create concentrations
or combinations  of materials which are
toxic to human,  animal,  plant or aquatic
life.

Toxic substances narrative:  no increases
above  naturally  occuring concentrations
are allowed.

Toxic  substances narrative:   concentra-
tions of  toxic substances after treatment
for  domestic use are not to exceed re-
commended limits in latest EPA drinking
water standards;  maximum allowable con-
centrations are  to be less than  acute or
chronic  problem  levels  as  revealed  by
bioassay or other methods.

Concentrations of  toxic or other delete-
rious substances,  pesticides and  organic
and  inorganic  materials  including  heavy
metals, are not to exceed levels known or
demonstrated to be of public health signi-
ficance;  also maximum allowable concen-
trations  are  to  be  less  than acute  or
chronic  problem   levels  as  revealed  by
bioassay or other methods.

Toxic  substances  narrative:  Concentra-
tions of  toxic or deleterious substances,
pesticides  and   organic   and  inorganic
materials including  heavy metals,  are to
be less  than those demonstrated  to  be
deleterious to livestock or plants or their
subsequent consumption by humans or to
adversely affect other indicated uses.

Not specified

Toxic substances  narrative: none alone or
in combination with other substances  or
wastes  in concentrations rendering the
receiving water unsafe or unsuitable for
the assigned beneficial uses.

0.00005
                                                                 Water supply (Class
                                                                 A-Closed)
                                                                 Water supply (classes
                                                                 A-Open-D.., B-D^
                                                                 B-D2, B-Dj)
                                                                 Fish, aquatic life, wildlife,
                                                                 agriculture,  industrial, recrea-
                                                                 tion in and on the water
                                                                 (classes C-D.^, C-D2)
                                                                 Agricultural and industrial
                                                                 (other than food processing)
All

AU
All (all waters indicated
in Article 4.1.3.1,
Nevada Water Pollution
Control Regs.)

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State

Nevada
  (con't)
Criteria in rog/1

0.00005
                   Toxic  substances  narrative:   free  from
                   toxic substances attributable to domestic
                   or  industrial  waste or other controllable
                   sources  at  levels  or  combinations suffi-
                   cient to be toxic to human, animal,  plant
                   or  aquatic  life.   The presence of  toxic
                   materials in a water shall be evaluated by
                   use of  a 96-hour  bioassay.   Survival, of
                   test organisms shall not be less than that
                   in control  tests which utilize appropriate
                   control water.  Failure to determine pre-
                   sence of toxic materials by these methods
                   shall not preclude determination of exces-
                   sive levels of toxic materials on the basis
                   of  other criteria or methods.  No wastes
                   from municipal or industrial or other con-
                   trollable  sources   containing  arsenic,
                   barium,   boron,   cadmium,   chromium,
                   cyanide, fluoride, lead selenium, silver,
                   copper   and  zinc that   are  reasonably
                   amenable to treatment or control will be
                   discharged untreated or uncontrolled into
                   the waters of Nevada.   In  addition, the
                   limits for concentrations  of the chemical
                   constituents  will  provide water  quality
                   consistant   with  the   mandatory  require-
                   ments of the 1962 Public Health  Service
                   Drinking Water Standards.

                   None (zero)
                   Toxic substances  narrative:   only such
                   amounts as will not render  receiving wa-
                   ters injurious to fish or wildlife.
Designated Stream Use

All (all waters indicated
in Article 4.1.3.2, Nevada
Water Pollution Control Regs.)

AU
                                              Drinking   water    supply
                                              (with  treatment  by  disin-
                                              fection  only)  suitable  for
                                              aquatic  life habitat, wild-
                                              life  propagation,  agricul-
                                              tural, recreation,  boating,
                                              esthetics

                                              Drinking   water    supply
                                              (with  treatment  by  disin-
                                              fection and filtration only),
                                              agricultural,   aquatic  life
                                              and  wildlife  propagation,
                                              recreation,  industrial  and
                                              esthetics
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State
Criteria in mg/1
Designated Stream Use
Nevada
  (con't)
Toxic  substances narrative:   only  such
amounts as will not render receiving wa-
ters injurious to fish and wildlife.
                   Toxic  substances narrative:   only  such
                   amounts as will not impair receiving wa-
                   ters for uses of this class.
              .26
New Hampshire     Not specified
New Jersey
           27
Toxic substances narrative:  shall be free
from chemicals inimical to fish life or the
maintenance of fish life

Toxic  substances narrative:   no  poten-
tially  toxic  substances unless  naturally
occurring.

Toxic  substances narrative:   no  poten-
tially  toxic  substances in  toxic concen-
trations or combinations.

Bioassay   procedures  and  application
factors used in establishing limits on toxic
substances shall,  as a minimum, be no less
rigorous  than the recommendations  for
bioassays   and application  factors  con-
tained in the National Technical Advisory
Committee's report to the Secretary of
the   Interior  on   WATER   QUALITY
CRITERIA, April 1,  1968  or latest revi-
sion thereof.

0.005

Toxic substances narrative:  shall not ex-
ceed  l/20th  of  the TL50 value  at  96
hours.  Combinations of toxic substances
will be based on the same principle.

Toxic substances narrative:  a concentra-
tion of a  persistent pesticide  shall  not
exceed 1/100 of  the TL50 at 96 hours as
determined by appropriate bioassay.
Drinking   water   supply
(following complete treat-
ment),  agricultural,  aqua-
tic   life,  wildlife  propa-
gation,   recreation,   and
industrial

Boating   and   esthetics,
aquatic  life,  agricultural
and  industrial (except for
food processing purposes)

AU

Fish  life or  the  mainte-
nance of fish life
                                                                 Water supply
                                                                 All except water supply
AU

AU
                                                                 AU

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State
Criteria Values in mg/1
Designated Stream Use
New Jersey
  (con't)
Toxic substances narrative: no man-made
wastewater discharges.
Nejv Mexico
           28
                   Toxic  substances narrative:  none,  either
                   alone  or in combination with other sub-
                   stances, in concentrations  as  to  affect
                   humans or be detrimental  to the natural
                   aquatic biota  or to other designated uses.
                   None  which would cause drinking  water
                   standards  to  be  exceeded  after   appro-
                   priate treatment.
                   Toxic  substances  narrative:  none  either
                   alone  or in combination with other sub-
                   stances; in concentrations  as  to  affect
                   humans or be detrimental to the natural
                   aquatic biota or to other designated  uses.
Not specified

Toxic substances narrative:  shall not be
present  in  concentrations   which   will
change the ecology of receiving waters to
an extent  detrimental to man  or  other
organisms  of direct or indirect  commer-
cial, recreational or esthetic value.  Toxi-
cities of  substances in receiving waters
will  be determined by appropriate  bio-
assay  techniques,  or  other  acceptable
means, for the  particular form of aquatic
life  which is  to  be preserved  with the
concentrations  of toxic materials not to
exceed  5  percent  of  the 96-hour  LD50
provided that:    toxic  substances which,
through uptake in the aquatic food chain
and/or storage  in plant and animal tissues,
can be magnified to levels whieh are toxic
to man or other organisms, shall not be
present in concentrations which result in
thk. b:~4ogieal magnification.
Maintenance   of   natural
state quality  (Class  FW-1
waters designated to be set
aside for posterity  to re-
present the natural aquatic
environment and  its  asso-
ciated biota)

Public water  supply (after
treatment); propagation of
natural biota; primary con-
tact  recreation; industrial
and agricultural water sup-
ply;   shellfish  harvesting;
secondary  contact recrea-
tion;  migration of anadro-
mous fish; maintenance of
wildlife; other reasonable
uses

Propagation of natural bio-
ta;  primary and secondary
contact  recreation; indus-
trial and agricultural water
supply;   shellfish  harvest-
ing;  migration  of  anadro-
mous fish; maintenance of
wildlife; other reasonable
uses

AU

Recreation; desirable
aquatic life

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State

New Mexico
  (con't)
New York
         29
North Carolina
              30
North Dakota
             31
Criteria in mg/1

Toxic substances narrative:  shall be pro-
tected  from   hazardous  substances  in
concentrations that exceed drinking water
standards established by the New Mexico
Regulations governing water supplies.

Not specified

Toxic  substances  narrative:    none  in
amounts that  will be injurious  to fish life
or shellfish,  or  that would  impair any
designated uses of the water.

0.00005

0.0001

Toxic substance narrative:  shall not ex-
ceed  0.01 of  the 96-hour  LC50  unless
half-life of substance is less than 96 hours
or is not  biocumulative,  in  which  case
shall  not  exceed  0.05  of  the  96-hour
LC50.

Toxic  substances  narrative:   only  such
amounts, whether  alone or in combination
with other substances or  wastes as will
not render the water unsafe or unsuitable
for use.

Toxic substances narrative:  none (zero)
0.002

Toxic  substances  narrative:   free from
substances  attributable   to  municipal,
industrial,  or other  discharges  or agri-
cultural  practices  in  concentrations  or
combinations which are toxic  or  harmful
to human, animal, plant or resident aqua-
tic life.

Mixing zones narrative: the 96-hour TLm
for indigenous  and/or  resident  fish  and
fish food organisms shall  not be exceeded
at any point in the mixing zone.
Designated Stream Use

Domestic water supplies
All

All
AU

All (tidal salt water)

AU
                                                                AU (But A-l)
Water  supply for  drinking,
culinary  or  food processing
purposes A-l

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State
Ohio
    32
Criteria Values in mg/1

0.0005 mg/g (wet  weight)  in  any whole
sample of a representative aquatic organ-
ism or 0.00005 mg/1  monthly average or
0.0002 mg/1 at any  time.
                   0.002
                   0.01
                   General narrative:  free from substances
                   resulting from human activities in con-
                   centrations  toxic  or  harmful to  human,
                   animal or aquatic  life and/or  are rapidly
                   lethal in the mixing zone.

                   Antidegradation policy:  present ambient
                   water quality will  be maintained for all
                   toxic substances.
Designated Stream Use

Warmwater habitat; excep-
tional  warm water  habitat;
coldwater  habitat;  seasonal
warmwater  habitat; limited
warmwater  habitat.     All
Lake  Erie  uses, all lower
Cuyahoga River uses. Notes
A and B.

Public water supply;
Note A

Agricultural water supply;
Note A

All
                                             All
Oklahoma
         33
Toxic substances narrative: 0.1 times 96-
hour  TLm or  LC50 for  representative
aquatic  species.    Persistent  toxicants
shall not exceed 0.01 times 96-hour TLm
or LC50. TLm  or  LC50  shall be  deter-
mined by static or dynamic bioassays.  At
least  90 per cent of the  volume of the
mixing zone shall not exceed at any time
the  24- to  96-hour TLm  or  LC50 for
representative aquatic species.

Note  A: see exceptions under Ohio Admi-
nistrative  Code   Regulations   3745-1-
08(C)(1) for certain stream segments.

Note  B:    see   exceptions  under  Ohio
Administrative Code Regulations 3745-1-
ll-(C) for certain areas

0.002
                   Toxic substances narrative:   waters will
                   not be toxic to humans, fish and wildlife,
                   and other terrestrial and aquatic life, nor
                                                                Warmwater habitat;.excep-
                                                                tional warmwater  habitat;
                                                                coldwater habitat; seasonal
                                                                warmwater habitat;  limit-
                                                                ed warmwater habitat. All
                                                                Lake Erie uses
Public and private
water supplies

All
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State
Criteria Values in mg/1
Designated Stream Use
Oklahoma
   (con't)
Oregon
       34
            35
Pennsylvania
detrimental  to  any beneficial  use  inclu-
ding continued  ingestion by livestock or
use for irrigation.  Toxic substances shall
not be  present  in quantities which allow
significant  bioaccumulation and/or  bio-
magnification in the food chain.

Toxic  substances narrative:   toxic  sub-
stances not removable by ordinary  water
treatment techniques shall not exceed the
limits  in Section  4.1  of the  Oklahoma
Water Quality Standards.

Toxic  substances narrative:   concentra-
tions  of  nonpersistent  toxic  substances
shall not  exceed 0.1 of  the 96-hour LC50
for the most sensitive indigenous species.
Concentrations  of  persistent   toxicants
shall  not  exceed  0.05  of  the  96-hour
LC50,  for the  most  sensitive indigenous
species.   Bioassay  data for Pimephales
prom m el as   (Fathead   minnow)  arid/or
Lepomis  macrochirus  (Bluegill)  shall be
used in determining compliance.

Mixing zones narrative:  shall not exceed
the 96-hour  TLm for  the most  sensitive
indigenous species.

Not Specified

General  water  quality  standards  appli-
cable to all  waters except where super-
seded by  special water  quality standards
applicable  to   specifically   designated
waters.   No  wastes  shall be  discharged
and no activities shall  be conducted  which
either alone  or in combination with other
wastes or activities will cause toxic con-
ditions  that  are  deleterious to fish or
other aquatic life or  affect the  potablity
of drinking water.

Not specified

Toxic substances narrative:  shall not be
inimical  or  injurious  to the  designated
water use.
                                                                 Public and private water
                                                                 supplies
                                                                 Aquatic life
All



AU

AU
AU

AU
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State
Rhode Island
            36
Criteria Values in mg/1

None in concentrations or combinations
which would be harmful to human, animal
or aquatic life or which would  make the
waters unsafe  or  unsuitable  for  fish or
shellfish or their propagation, impair the
palatability of same, or impair the waters
for any other uses.

None in concentrations on combinations
which would be harmful to human, animal
or aquatic life or which would  make the
waters unsafe  or  unsuitable  for  fish of
shellfish or their  propagation,  or impair
the water for any other usage assigned to
this Class.

None in concentrations or combinations
which would be harmful to human, animal
or aquatic life or which would  make the
waters unsafe  or  unsuitable  for  fish or
shellfish or their  propagation,  or impair
the water for any other usage assigned to
this Class.

Waters   shall  be  free  from  chemical
constitutents in concentrations  or combi-
nations which would be  harmful  to human,
animal, or aquatic life for the appropriate
most sensitive  and governing water class
use or unfavorably alter the biota.

In areas  where  fisheries are the  governing
considerations  and approved  limits have
not been established, bioassays shall be
performed as required by the appropriate
agencies.   The  latest  edition  of the
federal publication Water Quality Criteria
will  be considered  the  interpretation and
application of  bioassay  result.  Bioassays
shall be performed according to  the latest.
edition   of  Standard   Methods   for the
Examination  of  Water  and  Wastewater
(APHA).

For  public  drinking  water supplies, the
limit prescribed  by  the  United  States
Environmental  Protection  Agency will be
used where not superseded by more  strin-
gent state requirements.
Designated Stream Use

Class SA/SA
                                                                           m
                                                                Class SB
                                                                Class SC
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State
              37
South Carolina
South Dakota
             38
Tennessee
         39
Criteria in mg/1

Not specified

Toxic substances narrative: none (zero).
Toxic  substances  narrative:    none  in
amounts exceeding limitations established
and adopted by the Department  of Health
and Environmental Control.

Toxic substances narrative: none alone or
in combination  with  other substances  or
wastes  in sufficient  amounts to be inju-
rious  to edible fish  or shellfish  or the
culture  or propagation thereof.

Toxic substances narrative:  shall be free
from  toxic  substances  attributable  to
sewage, industrial  waste,  or  other waste
in concentratioas or  combinations which
are harmful  to human, animal, plant  or
aquatic life.

0.002

Concentrations  of  chemicals  toxic  to
humans, animals,  plants,  or  the  most
sensitive stage  or  form  of aquatic  life,
greater than 0.1 times  the mediaa toler-
ance limit for short residual compounds or
0.01 times the median tolerance limit for
an accumulative substance or substances
exhibiting a residual life exceeding thirty
days  in the   receiving waters.   Median
tolerance limits shall  be determined  in
accordance   with  section   34:04:02:06.
Concentrations   specified   for   toxic
materials  shall  be   based   on  daily
averages, but  the concentrations shall not
exceed  one  hundred  and  twenty-five per
cent of the value specified in this section
at  any  time  or at  any  point in the
receiving water.

The   instream  concentrations  of  toxic
pollutants shall not exceed 1/10  of the 96-
hour LC50 based upon available data using
one or  more.of the most sensitive organ-
isms significant to  aquatic community  of
Designated Stream Use

AU

Domestic  and  food pro-
cessing;  trout fishing; out-
standing  recreational   or
ecological resources

Direct    water    cc itact
(swimming);      domestic
supply; propagation of fish;
industrial; agricultural

Shellfish harvesting; direct
water contact (swimming);
crabbing; commercial fish-
ing; propagation of marine
fauna and flora

AU
Domestic Water Supply

AU
Aquatic life
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State
Criteria in mg/1
Designated Stream Use
Tennessee
  (con't)
Texas
     40
Utah
     41
the waters under consideration.  Cumula-
tive substance may be further limited  on
a case-by-case basis.

Toxic substances narrative: No toxic sub-
stances added that will produce  toxic con-
ditions that materially affect man or ani-
mals;  impair the  safety of  a  conven-
tionally treated water supply; affect the
water  for  industrial processing,  fish  or
aquatic life, man or animal, livestock and
wildlife, navigation, irrigation.

Not specified

Toxic substances narrative:   the surface
waters of the State shall be maintained so
that they will not  be toxic  to  man, fish
and wildlife, and any  other terrestrial and
aquatic life.

Toxic substances narrative:   toxic mate-
rials  not  removable by  ordinary water
treatment  techniques shall  not exceed
USPHS Drinking Water Standards or those
established  by  EPA pursuant to the  Safe
Drinking Water Act.  For a general guide,
with  respect to fish toxicity, receiving
waters  outside  mixing  zones should  not
have a concentration of nonpersistent to-
xic materials exceeding 0.1 of the 96-hour
TLm, where the bioassay is made using
fish indigenous  to  the  receiving waters.
For persistent  toxicants, concentrations
should not  exceed  0.05  of  the  96-hour
TLm.

0.002

0.00005

Toxic  substances  narrative:  it  shall  be
unlawful to discharge or  place  any waste
or  other substance in  concentrations  or
combinations which  produce undesirable
physiological responses in desirable  resi-
dent fish, or other desirable aquatic life,
as determined by bioassay or other tests.
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All

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                                                                 Public drinking water
                                                                 supplies
Domestic water supplies

Aquatic life

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State
Vermont
        42
       43
Virginia
Criteria Values in mg/1

Prohibited

Wastes discharged to waters of the State
shall  contain no  chemical or  radiological
constituents  which would be  inconsistent
with  the  water  uses  associated with  the
assigned water class.

Discharge of  radioactive  material   to
waters  of the State shall not exceed  the
lowest practicable limits after utilization
of the  latest technological development
and equipment for  control  of radioactive
emissions. In no  event shall the discharge
of  such  materials  exceed  the  limits
established  by  the  Agency  of  Human
Services.

There shall  be   no  discharge of  wastes
containing any   of  the  prohibited sub-
stances set  forth below  in  detectable
amounts either to waters of the State or
to  a  municipal  wastewater   collection
and/or treatment facility except in those
cases where  a process  water  contains an
incoming  level of a prohibited  substance
due to  natural or other causes.  In such
cases the  concentration  of  the prohibited
substance  or substances  in  the  actual
wastes discharged shall not be increased.

0.002

0.0001

0.00005
                   Toxic  substances  narrative:   free  from
                   toxic substances attributable to sewage,
                   industrial waste, or other waste  in con-
                   centrations,  amounts,  or  combinations
                   which  are  inimical or harmful to  human,
                   animal, plant, or aquatic life.
Designated Stream Use

All
Public water supply

Open Ocean and Estuarine

Free    flowing   streams
(coastal    and   Piedmont
Zones), Mountainous Zones,
Put and Take Trout waters,
and Natural Trout Waters
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State
Washington
          44
            45
West Virginia
         A a
Wisconsin
Criteria in mg/1

Not Specified

Toxic substances narrative: toxic material
concentrations shall be below those which
adversely affect public health, and  the
natural aquatic environment.

Toxic substances narrative:  toxic mate-
rial concentrations shall  be below  those
which  adversely affect public health, or
which  may cause acute  or chronic toxic
conditions to the aquatic biota.

Deleterious concentrations  of  toxic,  or
other nonradioactive materials, shall  be
determined  by the  department in consi-
deration  of  the  "Quality  Criteria  for
Water," published  by EPA 1976,   and as
revised,  as  the authoritative  source  for
criteria  and/or  other  relevant  infor-
mation, if justified.

Not specified

Toxic substances narrative: not to exceed
0.1 of the 96-hour TLm.

No sewage,  industrial  wastes or  other
wastes present in any of the waters of the
State shall have concentrations of mate-
rials poisonous to human, animal, or aqua-
tic life.

Not specified

Toxic substances narrative:  substances in
concentrations or combinations which are
toxic or  harmful to humans shall  not be
present in  amounts found  to be of public
health significance, nor which are acutely
harmful to animal, plant or aquatic life.

Toxic  substances  narrative:   the  intake
water  supply  will  by appropriate  treat-
ment and adequate safeguards meet the
PHS Drinking  Water Standards, 1962.
Designated Stream Use

AU

All uses for extraordinary
(class A A) and lake  class
waters
                                                                All uses for excellent
                                                                (class A), good
                                                                (class B), and fair
                                                                (class C) waters
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AU
AU

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State
Wyoming
        47
American Samoa
Criteria in mg/1

Not specified

Toxic substances narrative:  none in con-
centrations or combinations  attributable
to or influenced by the activities of man
which would damage or impair the normal
growth, function or  reproduction of hu-
man, animal, plant  or aquatic life.  Maxi-
mum  allowable concentrations  shall be
based on latest edition of Quality Criteria
for Water  by  EPA  and/or more generally
accepted scientific information.

Free  from substances  or  combinations
thereof attributable to sewage, industrial
wastes, or  other  wastes which may be
toxic to humans,  other animals, plants,
and aquatic life.

Substances  of  unknown   toxicity;   All
effluents   containing  foreign  materials
shall  be   considered  harmful   and   not
permissible  until   acceptable   bioassay
tests  have  shown  otherwise.   It is  the
obligation  of  the  person  producing  the
effluent to demonstrate that it is harm-
less, at the request of the Environmental
Quality Commission.

Compliance with Section VLB. of  these
Standards will be   determined by use of
indicator  organisms,  analysis  of  species
diversity,    population  density,  growth
anomalies, bioassays of appropriate  dura-
tion or  other appropriate  methods as
specified  by  the  Environmental  Quality
Commission.

The survival  of aquatic  life  in  surface
waters shall not be less than that for the
same water body in areas unaffected by
sewage, industrial  wastes or other activi-
ties of man, or, when necessary, for other
control  water  that  is consistent with the
requirements for "experimental  water" as
described  in  Standard Methods for  the
Examination of Water  and  Wastewater
(latest  editiorJ57   As  a  minimum,  com-
pliance  with the objectives  as  stated in
the previous sentence shall be  evaluated
with a 96-hour bioassay.
Designated Stream Use

AU

All
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State
         Criteria Values in mg/1
                                             Designated Stream Use
American Samoa
  (cont't)
District of
  Columbia
48
Guam
In addition,  effluent  limits  based  upon
acute bioassays of effluents will be  pres-
cribed  where  appropriate;   additional
numerical receiving water objectives  for
specific toxicants will be established as
sufficient  data become  available;  and
source control of toxic substances will be
encouraged.

0.00005

0.002

Toxic substances narrative:   The waters
shall  at  all  times  be  free  from:  toxic
substances attributable to sewage, indus-
trial waste, or  other  waste in concentra-
tions  or combinations  which interfere di-
rectly or  indirectly with water  uses, or
which are harmful to human,  animal,
plant, or aquatic life.

0.0005 mg/gram weight of aquatic organ-
isms, or 0.00005 mg/1;  or 0.01 x  96-hour
LC50 whichever is less.

0.002

In order to provide maximum protection
for the propagation of fish and wildlife,
concentrations of toxic substances shall
not exceed levels  calculated by  multi-
plying the application factors by the  96-
hour  LC50  values  determined  using  the
receiving  water in  question and the most
sensitive  species   of  aquatic  organism
affected.

When the concentration based on the  96-
hour  LC50  data exceeds the  maximum
numerical  limits,  the numerical limits
shall  constitute the criteria.

The   application  factors  and  maximum
numerical  limits are derived  from  the
NAS-NAE 1972 Report of the Committee
on Water Quality Criteria.
Aquatic Life

Domestic Water Supply

AU
                                                     AU
                                                                Drinking Water supply

                                                                All surface waters of the
                                                                Territory except 2c
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State              Criteria in mg/1
           49
Puerto Rico        0.001

                   0.001

                   Toxic substances narrative: shall not con-
                   tain substances in concentrations or com-
                   binations which  are  toxic or  which pro-
                   duce undesirable physiological  responses
                   in human, fish or  other  animal life,  and
                   plants.  When two or more toxic  materials
                   are present at the same time,  the chronic
                   effect of such combinations shall be taken
                   into account and the applicable standard
                   shall be determined by bioassay or other
                   approved method.

Trust Territory of  Free from   substances  or  combinations
  the Pacific       thereof attributable to sewage, industrial
  Islands           wastes, or other  wastes toxic  to humans,
                   animals, plants and aquatic life.
Virgin Islands
            H
All surface waters shall be free of sub-
stances attributable to  municipal, indus-
trial, or  other discharges or  wastes in
concentrations or  combinations which are
toxic  or   which  produce  undesirable
physiological responses in human, fish and
other animal life, and plants.
                                             Designated Stream Use

                                             All (surface waters)

                                             All (coastal waters)

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