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["Interests: Why are surface water quality standards important to you?","Category Interests","Final Categories"]
["Agriculture utilizes water-need high quality water for ag products: Concerns about impacts-turbidity, temp, pesticides, narrative vs numeric, point vs nonpoint, BMPs","Agriculture","Importance of water quality for agriculture."]
["Agriculture utilizes water-need high quality water for ag products: Don’t want to drive someone out of business, but have tools they can utilize like BMPs","Agriculture","Climate Change may require standard changes."]
["Agriculture utilizes water-need high quality water for ag products: Are the standards appropriate? ","Agriculture","Better coordination among government entities."]
["Agriculture utilizes water-need high quality water for ag products: Don’t want standards to infringe water rights ","Agriculture","Discharge permits: Understand whether requirements will change and if so how."]
["Agriculture utilizes water-need high quality water for ag products: Want certainty and flexibility","Agriculture","Importance of water quality for Wyoming's economy."]
["For private landowners bringing them water quality issues- they need better info for how to address water quality issues-more BMPs: Need specific BMP resolutions-they don’t know if the practices changed the water quality issues. ","Agriculture","Environmental importance of water quality for the protection of fish, human health, drinking water, recreation, wildlife, and livestock."]
["Waters that are used for livestock watering can be found to be impaired (e.g., not meeting surface water quality standards)","Agriculture","Numerical/Narrative Standards need to be understandable and simplified."]
["Protect fish and wildlife resources: Important for standards to be updated with climate change. ","Climate Change","Importance of water quality to public consumption"]
["Historically, WDEQ does quality and SEO is responsible for quantity","Coordination","The importance of water quality to Recreation"]
["There may be opportunities for coordination and to better understand how SEO permits may impact WDEQ’s uses of surface waters","Coordination","Importance to understand and support the regulatory framework around water quality."]
["Aligning WDEQ’s uses of surface waters with the SEO uses would benefit both agencies","Coordination","Importance that water quality standards are understandable and simplified."]
["Water classifications have implications for discharge permits (e.g., Crow Creek)","Discharge Permits","The importance of water quality to Wildlife populations and habitat."]
["Small municipalities: Some have non-discharging lagoons or infrequently discharging lagoons ","Discharge Permits"]
["Interested in industry discharges. Wants to understand how rules would affect their ability to maintain compliance. Wants to protect resources but try to do so in a way so they can keep operating.","Discharge Permits"]
["Represents general contractors. They are looking to protect the water resources and promote the economic facets of the construction industry. Contractors contribute to the economic resources of the state. Economic advancement is important.","Economic"]
["Oil and gas producers want to ensure that facilities can continue to operate","Economic"]
["Interested in protection for fish, human health, drinking water, recreation, wildlife, livestock. Has seen damages with discharges and is concerned about native vegetation and trees. Water is life, and we need high-quality water.","Environmental"]
["Protect fish and wildlife resources:  Issues with selenium standards, crow creek contaminated with PFAS","Environmental"]
[" Harmful cyanobacterial blooms occur on several large waterbodies from time to time","Environmental"]
["Conservation interests: Protect water quality and the environment","Environmental"]
["Conservation interests:  Clean water in Wyoming","Environmental"]
["Conservation interests: Strongest water quality standards that are possible under the Clean Water Act and Environmental Quality Act","Environmental"]
["If there are numerical standards they have to have an analytical method to match them: Compounds they are finding now were probably there in the past-is it important or are we just discovering it now?","Numerical/Narrative Standards"]
["Evaluate cost-benefit, risk factors, and health effects for numerical standards: Ex. PFAs in ppt, what are the health effects associated with lower limits?","Numerical/Narrative Standards"]
["Evaluate cost-benefit, risk factors, and health effects for numerical standards: Make sure numeric standards aren’t lower than natural background. ","Numerical/Narrative Standards"]
["Differing systems from ephemeral streams to perennial or top of mountain to plains, will have differing issues but they have the same standards.","Numerical/Narrative Standards"]
["Important for visitors in the parks, recreation standards, human health standards:Prefers numeric standards","Numerical/Narrative Standards"]
["Public water utility that protects water for drinking water sources. They also treat wastewater and return it to streams. It is important to protect uses for treatment and recognize the role of community health and environment, they want to protect water for where they live.","Public consumption"]
["Important for visitors in the parks, recreation standards, human health standards:Interested in emerging contaminates: HABs, PFAs, microplastics. ","Public consumption"]
["State Parks, manage recreation for entities throughout the state. Important to be good stewards and partners and provide public recreation opportunities in the way the public wants to recreate.","Recreation"]
["Interest in simplification of the standards, without sacrificing the quality","Regulatory"]
["Small municipalities: Many do not understand why they have particular effluent limits, particularly for ephemeral waterbodies","Regulatory"]
["Small municipalities:  Interest in understanding the classification systems and how effluent limits are derived","Regulatory"]
["Source water protection: Many facilities have source water protection plans","Regulatory"]
["Source water protection: Important to ensure that surface water treatment facilities are notified of turbidity increases so that they can plan ahead or work with contractor ","Regulatory"]
["Oil and gas producers want to understand how requirements for surface water quality may change over time and if becoming more restrictive ","Regulatory"]
["Oil and gas producers want to maintain existing grandfathered permits","Regulatory"]
["Water Quality and Water Quantity Permits: would it be possible to have a single application for various permits so that landowners are getting clear communication about requirements?","Regulatory"]
["Streamline process for well remediation, reservoir remediation","Regulatory"]
["Manage several large waterbodies: Turbidity criteria has implications for sediment releases, including the exemption for Guernsey Dam","Standards"]
[" Interest in ensuring that standards are set appropriately","Standards"]
["Standards in Wyoming appear overly complex","Standards"]
["Standards should be understandable to the general public ","Standards"]
["Surface water quality standards have implications for the uses of state lands","Standards"]
["Conservation interests: Want to make sure we are not moving backwards and that we are fulfilling goals of the Clean Water Act to restore and maintain the quality of the nation’s water, which is a congressionally mandated goal","Standards"]
["Conservation interests:  Standards should be understandable, achievable, and realistic","Standards"]
["Conservation interests: Concerned that we could end up complicating the standards.  Hoping that the outcome is that the standards are sensible and understandable.  Should be able to understand why a particular standard exists for a particular waterbody.","Standards"]
["Forest service. The original forest reserves were created for favorable water conditions. Now as a multiple-use agency, wants to make sure all their oversight uses are managed. Interested in implementing the best available science and protecting water quality while maintaining all the uses.","Water Quality"]
["Water Development office is involved with water projects throughout the State. They have a wide range of interests in how water quality affects projects. Sedimentation and turbidity are of particular interest right now and how those changes will affect watershed planning and irrigation infrastructure.","Water Quality"]
["Helping neighbors downstream, ensure water quality standards are meeting downstream uses","Water Quality"]
["Manage several large waterbodies: Water quality is important to these waterbodies","Water Quality"]
["Manage several large waterbodies: Point source permits (e.g., Moneta Divide) have implications for surface waters ","Water Quality"]
["Water quality affects uses and long-term value of land and revenue generation of state lands (livestock grazing, oil and gas operations, mining operations)","Water quality"]
["Game and Fish is responsible for fish and wildlife, managing in public trust, Interested in the health of fisheries and drinking water sources for wildlife. Anglers are a primary constituency. It is important to meet their demand. Fishing licenses and sports equipment sales in the state fund their agency. Watershed health is a driver of ecosystem health. Want to successfully manage resources to meet public expectations.","Wildlife"]
["Protect fish and wildlife resources: valuable to make sure water resources are protected for downstream species. ","Wildlife"]
["Important for water pollution, toxins, temp, sediment movement that all impacts fish spawning and habitat. ","Wildlife"]
["Ensure standards for fisheries are not degraded. ","Wildlife"]
["Better to classify specific segments for fish uses","Wildlife"]