466.2 - LEGISLATIVE GOAL.

        466.2  LEGISLATIVE GOAL.         The goal of this chapter is to develop a comprehensive water      quality program that will result in water quality improvements while      reducing proposed regulatory impacts.  The program shall use      information, education, monitoring, technical assistance, data      gathering and evaluation, incentives, and more efficient issuance of      permits.  The program is expected to have a menu of initiatives and      approaches to appeal to a broad audience of participants and shall be      coordinated so that individual initiatives work toward the objective      of improved water quality.  The departments of agriculture and land      stewardship and natural resources shall work cooperatively with      federal agencies to obtain waivers and changes in rules and      procedures at national and state levels to improve the federal      programs' environmental and economic performance for Iowans.  State      agencies shall collaborate with other state agencies to attain the      overall goal of improved water quality.  The state department of      transportation and the department of natural resources shall      collaborate to provide for the preservation of topsoil, erosion      control, water impoundment during highway construction and      reconstruction, and restoration and management of roadside      right-of-way for prairie restoration, wildlife habitat, and erosion      control.  
         Section History: Recent Form
         2000 Acts, ch 1068, §2