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 downstream. These activities will take place without new mandates- 

 from the federal government, and over the next decade water quality 

 officials in South Dakota are confident that impaired watersheds 

 will be assessed and treatment well underway without new federal 

 directives to do so. 



The Bad River Project and others like it will be based on the 

 important principles of targeting resources to priority impaired 

 watersheds, working partnerships between private landowners and 

 government agencies, voluntary participation, site-specific 

 planning and respect for private property rights. These principles 

 are the key to success in putting agricultural nonpoint source 

 programs in place, and are strongly endorsed by the Clean Water 

 Working Group. 



The primary limiting factor for more accelerated progress in 

 the Bad River and other projects like it across the country is 

 resources, and not good faith. We believe that Clean Water Act 

 amendments should improve nonpoint source programs which will 

 enable the "good actors", like the landowners in the Bad River 

 watershed, to make the management changes necessary to address 

 nonpoint problems identified with agriculture. Making adequate 

 resources available to states to develop and implement their 319 

 programs is essential to achieving the goal of improving watershed 

 planning . and involvement of landowners - the "stakeholders" - in 

 the watershed planning process. Increased 319 funds should be 

 directed toward improving technical assistance and education 

 programs in the states. Cost-share assistance should also be made 



