Public Notice: Keweenaw Bay Indian Community Application for Treatment as a State for Water Quality Standards

Summary

The Keweenaw Bay Indian Community (KBIC) of Michigan has applied to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to develop and administer water quality standards. Approval of the application would allow KBIC to adopt, review, and revise water quality standards and to certify that discharges comply with those water quality standards for all surface waters within KBIC’s L’Anse Reservation. Those waters for which KBIC proposes to establish water quality standards include the following named waters (and their tributaries) that occur within those areas: Bella Lake Creek; Bishop Lake; Camp Creek; Dakota Creek; Daults Creek; Dead Man’s Creek; Denomie Creek; Gomanche Creek (and its tributaries); Kallio Creek; Kelsey Creek; Laughs/Laws/Lost Lake; Linden Creek; Little Carp River; Little Silver Creek; Meadow Creek; Mud Lakes and Sloughs; Page Creek; Pekkala Creek; Pequaming Sloughs and Wetland; Pinery Lakes; Robillard Creek; Sand Point Sloughs; Silver River (and its tributaries); Third Lake (including its inlet creek); Unlabeled #1 Creek into Huron Bay; Unlabeled # 2 Creek into Huron Bay; and Unlabeled # 3 Creek into Huron Bay, and tributaries for those water bodies, and excluding the beds or waters of the Keweenaw Bay.

For More Information

Hard copies of the complete application with supporting maps are also available for review at the following locations: