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ARTICLE 2 



WATERS OF THE STATE 



Part One 



Water Plan 



2.101 - Development, Adoption and Contents 



The Department shall develop and adopt and, from time to time, review, revise and 

 amend a plan for development, conservation, utilization and management of the waters of 

 the State, and may adopt such plan or any revision thereof in such part or parts as it may 

 deem appropriate. The water plan shall include, but need not be limited to, determinations 

 of immediate and long-range needs and objectives, classifications of water uses which are 

 to be protected and preserved, and projects and facilities, governmental or private, which 

 the Department determines ore necessary or useful for the optimum development, conserva- 

 tion, utilization and management of the waters of the State. 



2.102 - Relationship to Other Plons 



The water plan shall be complementary to the plan for the tidal region provided for by 

 Section 3.1 01 of this act, and the Department, in developing, reviewing, revising and amend- 

 ing the water plan shall give consideration to relevant portions of Federal, State, regional 

 and local plans. 



Part Two 

 Water Quality Control 



2.201 - Water Quality Stondards 



(a) In implementing the water plan the Department, by regulation, shall adopt, and may 

 from time to time change, the following: water quality standards for the waters of the State; 

 standards of water quality for particular waters of the State; criteria of water quality for each 

 classification of water use established by the comprehensive water plan; standards and meth- 

 ods of preserving, regulating, controlling and improving water quality; definitions of pollu- 

 tion and identification of pollutants. 



(b) Standards of water quality and criteria of water quality may relate, but need not be 

 limited to bacterial, viral, chemical, radioactive, organic, thermal, gaseous, liquid, solid or 

 soil additions to the waters of the State from any source, or to enrichment of the waters of 

 the State from any source. 



(c) No person or governmental agency shall discharge any effluents into the waters of 

 the State which interfere with maintenance of the standards and criteria of water quality 

 adopted by the Department. The Department may, by regulation, require that any person or 

 governmental agency discharging effluent into the waters of the State shall monitor the quality 



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