Clean Water Action Plan: Restoring and Protecting America's Waters: Unified Watershed Assessment and Watershed Restoration Priorities for Illinois

The unified watershed assessments provide the foundation for this cooperative approach to restoring and protecting water quality, and support the setting of watershed restoration priorities. The objective of the unified watershed assessments is to combine assessments and build on current, cooperative efforts to identify common priorities - not to create a new activity that competes with existing processes. As indicated in the Clean Water Action Plan, draft watershed assessments and draft watershed restoration priorities are to be scheduled for public comment by August 1, 1998, and final assessments and final watershed restoration priorities are scheduled to be completed by October 1, 1998.