Water Quality Control Plan. San Francisco Bay Basin (Region 2) California Regional Water Quality Control Board
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Golden Gate University School of Law GGU Law Digital Commons California Agencies California Documents 12-1986 Water Quality Control Plan. San Francisco Bay Basin (Region 2) California Regional Water Quality Control Board Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/caldocs_agencies Part of the Environmental Law Commons, and the Water Law Commons Recommended Citation California Regional Water Quality Control Board, "Water Quality Control Plan. San Francisco Bay Basin (Region 2)" (1986). California Agencies. Paper 393. http://digitalcommons.law.ggu.edu/caldocs_agencies/393 This Cal State Document is brought to you for free and open access by the California Documents at GGU Law Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in California Agencies by an authorized administrator of GGU Law Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. WATER QUA~ITY · CONTROL PLAN Cover photo by: MICHAEL DRENNAN. Senior Water Resources Engineer San Francisco Bay Region DONALD E. ANDERSON, CHAIRMAN PETER W. SNYDER, VICE CHAIRMAN* FRED KLATTE* JANICE E. MONDAVI MARION OTSEA • KENNETH R. MERCER JEPTHA WADE PHILIP WENTE *Basin Plan Committee 1986 3 F N R R This report was prepared under the direction of Roger B. James ......................................................................... Executive Officer Lawrence P. Kolb ...................................................................... Assistant Executive Officer Richard H. Whitsel ................................................................... Chief. Division of Planning by Steven R. Ritchie............................................... Senior Water Resource Control Engineer Susan Anderson Ph.D...................................... Environmental Specialist Ill DanielS. Tempelis ............................................ Water Resource Control Engineer Michael P. Carlin............................................... Environmental Specialist Ill Karen Garrison........................................... Graduate Student Assistant 4 1986 CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD SAN FRANCISCO BAY REGION RESOLUTION NO. 86-14 ADOPTING AMENDMENTS TO THE WATER QUALITY CONTROL PLAN AND REQUESTING APPROVAL FROM THE STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD Whereas. on October 21. 1982. the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) ap proved amendments revising the Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay Basin (Basin Plan); Whereas. the Regional Board has developed new proposed amendments to the Basin Plan in accordance with Section 13240 et. seq. of the California Water Code; Whereas. the Regional Board circulated three draft sets of proposed amendments dated April 11. 1986. August 29. 1986. and November 14. 1986; Whereas. a committee of the Regional Board held public workshops on April 30. 1986 and May 19, 1986, and the Regional Board held public hearings on September 19. 1986 and December 17. 1986 on the proposed Basin Plan amendments in accordance with Section 13244 of the Cali fornia Water Code; Whereas. the Basin Plan amendments must be approved by the State Board as provided in Sec tions 13245 and 13246 of the California Water Code before becoming effective; Whereas. the Continuing Planning section of the Basin Plan identifies and prioritizes specific areas of the Basin Plan which the Board intends to investigate for the purpose of future Basin Plan amendment proposals; Whereas. the Regional Board reaffirms those sections of the Basin Plan identified for future in vestigations until such time that amendments are considered; Whereas. some proposed effluent limits in Table 4-1 of the amendments are slightly less strin gent than those in Table 4-1 of the 1982 Basin Plan. the Regional Board finds that the new limits. which are based on specific water quality objectives. when applied with other proposed pro grams in the amendments will provide improved protection for beneficial uses and are consis tent with State Board Resolution No. 68-16; Whereas. the Regional Board prepared an environmental assessment evaluating significant en vironmental impacts and alternatives in compliance with Public Resources Code Section 21000 et. seq. (CEQA) and found that no significant adverse environmental impacts would result from implementation of the proposed Basin Plan amendments: and Whereas. the proposed Basin Plan amendments are consistent with the requirements of the Clean Water Act as amended; Therefore, be it resolved that: 1. The Regional Board adopts the Final Draft proposed Basin Plan amendments. dated Novem ber 14, 1986. as modified at the public hearing held on December 17, 1986. 2. The State Board is requested to approve the proposed Basin Plan amendments in accor dance with Sections 13245 and 13246 of the California Water Code. 1986 5 3. Upon approval. the State Board is requested to transmit the Basin Plan amendments to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for approval. I. Roger B. James, Executive Officer, do hereby certify the foregoing is a full. true, and correct copy of a resolution adopted by the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Fran cisco Bay Region, on December 17, 1986. ORIGINAL SIGNED BY ROGER B. JAMES Executive Officer 6 1986 CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD SAN FRANCISCO BAY REGION RESOLUTION NO. 87-106 ADOPTING AMENDMENTS TO THE WATER QUALITY CONTROL PLAN AND REQUESTING APPROVAL FROM THE STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD WHEREAS. on December 17, 1986, the California Regional Water Quality Control Board. San Francisco Bay Region (Regional Board). adopted amendments to the Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay Basin (Basin Plan) and requested that the State Water Re sources Control Board (State Board) approve those amendments: WHEREAS. on May 21. 1987, the State Board adopted Resolution No. 87-49. approving portions of those amendments to the Basin Plan but remanding other portions to the Regional Board for further consideration; WHEREAS. the Regional Board has developed new proposed amendments to the Basin Plan in accordance with Section 13240 et. seq. of the California Water Code; WHEREAS. a committee of the Regional Board held a public hearing on August 17. 1987. and the Regional Board held a public hearing on August 19. 1987 on the proposed Basin Plan amend ments in accordance with Section 13244 of the California Water Code; WHEREAS. the Basin Plan amendments must be approved by the State Board as provided in Sections 13245 and 13246 of the California Water Code before becoming effective; WHEREAS. the Regional Board prepared an environmental assessment evaluating significant environmental impacts and alternatives in compliance with Public Resources Code Section 21000 et. seq. (CEQA) and found that no significant adverse environmental impacts would re sult from implementation of the proposed Basin Plan amendments. and that environmental as sessment applies to these proposed amendments; and WHEREAS. the proposed Basin Plan amendments are consistent with the requirements of the Clean Water Act. as amended; THEREFORE. BE IT RESOLVED THAT: A. The Regional Board adopts the following Basin Plan amendments: 1. Reference to Class Ill surface impoundments contained in the Wet Weather Overflows section of Chapter 4 should be deleted. 2. The second and third sentences of Guideline No. 41isted under the Erosion and Sediment Control Section of Chapter 4 which state as follows should be deleted: "In addition. the Regional Board may find that any water quality problems caused by ero sion and sedimentation for such a project were due to the negligent lack of an adequate erosion control ordinance and enforcement program by the local permitting agency. Such a finding of negligence could subject a permitting agency to liability for indemni fication to a developer if civil monetary remedies are recovered by the State." 3. The discussion of wastewater treatmerltrequlremenfsfortheCityandCoi.Jnty of San Francisco contained in the Municipal Facilities Section of Chapter 4 which states in part "A full compliance deadline beyond July 1. 1988 must be part of a consent decree or other court-ordered time schedule." should be revised to state "A full compliance deadline be yond July 1. 1988 must be part of an enforceable time schedule." 4. All references in the Basin Plan to anti- and nondegradation policy should be replaced with references to State Board Resolution No. 68-16. 1986 7 5. The last two paragraphs of the discussion of the Central Valley agricultural drainage problem in Chapter 4 should be deleted and replaced with: 'The State Board has taken an active role in the remediation of the selenium problem at Kesterson. The San Joaquin Valley Drainage Program, another State and Federal inter agency program, has begun to further investigate the problems associated with the drain age of agricultural lands to develop solutions to those problems." 6. The discussion of wetlands contained in the proposed amendments to Chapter 2 should be deleted and replaced with: "Wetlands are waters of the State and the United States. Wetlands are defined in 40 CFR 122.2 as those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or groundwater at a fre quency and duration sufficient to support and that under normal circumstances do sup port a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. Wetlands include saltwater marshes, freshwater marshes, open or closed brackish water marshes, swamps, mudflats, and riparian areas. Because of the