§ 13144 Water Policy Agency Consultation

• •When making or changing rules about water cleanliness, the state must talk to other groups.
• •They have to listen to ideas from federal, state, and local agencies.
• •They must think carefully about what these agencies suggest.

The state wants to make new rules about how clean rivers should be.

Before deciding, they must ask groups like the EPA, city governments, and local water experts for their ideas and really consider them.