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October 12, 2001
prepared by
Kansas Department of Health and Environment
Division of Environment
Bureau of Environmental Field Services
1000 SW Jackson, Suite 430
Topeka, Kansas 66612
Preface
The Kansas Department of Health and Environment is responsible for designating
uses of surface waters as a part of establishing surface water quality standards.
Designated uses are listed in the Kansas Surface Water Register and adopted
by reference in regulation (K.A.R. 28-16-28d). A use attainability analysis
(UAA) is a procedure to evaluate water bodies and assign designated uses. The
federal regulations (40 CFR 131.10) allow a State to designate a use without
conducting a UAA, but a UAA must be conducted to remove a designated use. The
1999 Kansas Surface Water Register listed 1,292 stream segments for which the
Department had not conducted a UAA and had not assigned a recreational use.
Some recreational uses defined in prior surface water quality standards (dating
to the 1970's) were included in the 1999 Register without a UAA.
In compliance with Substitute Senate Bill 204 enacted by the 2001 Legislature,
the Department is to make public a listing of currently classified stream segments
for which:
• designated use attainability analyses for recreational use has been completed;
• recreational use has been determined not attainable;
• designated use attainability analyses for recreational use has not been
completed.
No UAAs have been completed for secondary contact recreation as defined in Substitute Senate Bill 204. For the purposes of this listing, the term "been completed" means that the use has been adopted in state regulation and approved by U.S. EPA.
Explanation of notations used in the listing:
• Primary Contact Recreation (PCR)—X indicates the primary contact
recreation use has been adopted in state regulation and approved by U.S. EPA;
• PCR Not Attainable—0 indicates the primary contact recreation use
is not attainable and that status has been adopted in state regulation and approved
by U.S. EPA;
• UAA Completed—X indicates a review of the segment is documented
which supports the recreational use status indicated;
• UAA Not Completed—X indicates no documented review of the segment,
—2001 indicates the field work was completed in 2001, but findings have
not been adopted in regulation.
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Cimmarron Basin
Kansas/Lower Republican Basin
Lower Arkansas Basin
Marais des Cygnes Gasin
Missouri Basin
Neosho Basin
Smoky Hill/Saline Basin
Solomon Basin
Upper Arkansas Basin
Upper Republican Basin
Verdigris Basin
Walnut Basin