Bill Text: CA SB1096 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced
Bill Title: Waste discharge requirements.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From committee without further action. [SB1096 Detail]
Download: California-2015-SB1096-Introduced.html
BILL NUMBER: SB 1096 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Senator Berryhill
FEBRUARY 17, 2016
An act to amend Section 13263 of the Water Code, relating to water
quality.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1096, as introduced, Berryhill. Waste discharge requirements.
Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act,
requires each California regional water quality control board, after
any necessary hearing, to prescribe waste discharge requirements to
implement relevant water quality control plans, and authorizes the
State Water Resources Control Board, after any necessary hearing, to
prescribe waste discharge requirements, as specified.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to these
provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 13263 of the Water Code is amended to read:
13263. (a) The regional board, after any necessary hearing, shall
prescribe requirements as to the nature of any proposed discharge,
existing discharge, or material change in an existing discharge,
except discharges into a community sewer system, with relation to the
conditions existing in the disposal area or receiving waters upon,
or into which, the discharge is made or proposed. The requirements
shall implement any relevant water quality control plans that have
been adopted, and shall take into consideration the beneficial uses
to be protected, the water quality objectives reasonably required for
that purpose, other waste discharges, the need to prevent nuisance,
and the provisions of Section 13241.
(b) A regional board, in prescribing these
requirements, need not authorize the utilization of the full waste
assimilation capacities of the receiving waters.
(c) The requirements may contain a time schedule, subject to
revision in the discretion of the board.
(d) The regional board may prescribe requirements although no
discharge report has been filed.
(e) Upon application by any affected person, or on its own motion,
the regional board may review and revise requirements. All
requirements shall be reviewed periodically.
(f) The regional board shall notify in writing the person making
or proposing the discharge or the change therein
in an existing discharge of the discharge requirements to
be met. After receipt of the notice, the person so
notified shall provide adequate means to meet the requirements.
(g) No A discharge of waste into the
waters of the state, whether or not the discharge is made pursuant
to waste discharge requirements, shall not create a vested
right to continue the discharge. All discharges
A discharge of waste into waters of the state are
privileges, is a privilege, not
rights. a right.
(h) The regional board may incorporate the requirements prescribed
pursuant to this section into a master recycling permit for
either a supplier or supplier,
distributor, or both, of recycled water.
(i) The state board or a regional board may prescribe general
waste discharge requirements for a category of discharges if the
state board or that regional board finds or determines that all of
the following criteria apply to the discharges in that category:
(1) The discharges are produced by the same or similar operations.
(2) The discharges involve the same or similar types of waste.
(3) The discharges require the same or similar treatment
standards.
(4) The discharges are more appropriately regulated under general
discharge requirements than individual discharge requirements.
(j) The state board, after any necessary hearing, may prescribe
waste discharge requirements in accordance with this section.
