Idaho State Statutes - Idaho Attorney Directory

The legislature finds that the waters of
Idaho lakes are threatened with deterioration that may endanger the natural
beauty, wildlife values, recreational use and economic potential of the public
lake resources; that the state holds all such public lakes in trust for the
use of all its citizens; that to preserve and protect the public lakes and to
increase and enhance the use and enjoyment of the lakes is in the best
interest of all the citizens of the state; that natural lakes form an
important basis of the state's economy and that the increasing demand upon the
lake waters of this state require coordinated state and local action to
maintain and improve the water quality of the lakes.
To this end the legislature declares that it is necessary to embark upon a
program of lake water quality protection so that future generations of
Idahoans may use and enjoy their natural heritage of clean lakes. This act
creates a pilot clean lakes program, to be initiated in the five (5) northern
counties of the state of Idaho. The pilot program, hereinafter referred to as
the clean lakes program, shall require a working partnership of federal, state
and local agencies. The clean lakes program will conform to and compliment the
program authorized by 33 U.S.C. 1324 of the federal water pollution control
act.

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