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• Establishing within each tribe an initial, base-level water quality 

 program to address nor\point source pollution and other water 

 resource problems; 



• Coordinating each tribe's progrcim with intertribal and 

 intergovernmental efforts to address water pollution on a watershed/ 

 ecosystem basis; 



• Developing water quality testing facilities for tribal use; 



• Creating a statewide water quality information and data management 

 system for the tribes; 



• Building on existing agreements with federal, state and local 

 governments to develop new model watershed programs that will 

 hasten clean-up and prevention of water pollution and restoration of 

 streamside and in-stream habitats; 



• lntei\sifying tribal efforts to ensure ei\f orcement by other governments 

 of existing laws, regulations and agreements to protect water quality, 

 water quantity, water use and riparian, in-stream cuid marine habitats, 

 especially those used by salmonids; 



• Increasing tribal involvement in permitting processes for activities that 

 may harm water quality and quantity; 



• Increasing awareness of the public and public officials of the need to 

 conserve biological diversity cind of the role of the tribes in that 

 activity; and 



• Implementing tribal watershed demonstration projects involving 

 intergoverrunental efforts in water quality protection. 



Tribal Water Quality Concerns: 



Federally recognized tribes in Washington state cor\front serious water pollution 

 problems but lack the means to overcome them. The tribes face many types of water 

 pollution because tribal and reservation lands and waters and treaty management 

 areas border and interlock with Washington state's major logging, agricultural, 

 industrial and population centers. The following figure indicates the locations, 

 dimensions and populations of tribal reservations in the State of Wcishington. The 

 main sources of pollution degrading tribal waters are: 



Logging and other silvicultural practices; 



AgricultuTcil practices; 



Shipping accidents creating major oils spills; 



Urbcmization, general growth and development; 



Failing septic systems; 



