NAC445A.1239. Control points: Prescription and applicability of numerical standards for water quality; designation of beneficial uses.

     1. Control points are locations where water quality criteria are specified. Criteria so specified apply to all surface waters of Nevada in the watershed upstream from the control point or to the next upstream control point or to the next water named in NAC 445A.123 to 445A.2234, inclusive.

     2. If there are no control points downstream from a particular control point, the criteria for that control point also apply to all surface waters of Nevada in the watershed downstream of the control point or to the next water named in NAC 445A.123 to 445A.2234, inclusive.

     3. Each standard is set to protect the beneficial use which is most sensitive with respect to that particular standard.

     4. NAC 445A.1242 to 445A.2234, inclusive, prescribe numerical standards for water quality and designate beneficial uses at particular control points.

     [Environmental Comm’n, Water Pollution Control Reg. § 4.2.5, eff. 5-2-78; A 1-25-79; 8-28-79; 1-25-80; 12-3-80]—(NAC A 11-22-82; 9-25-90; R160-06, 8-26-2008)—(Substituted in revision for NAC 445A.145)