Water Quality Enforcement Corporate

Water Quality Enforcement Basic Updates

Aforementioned Legislatures transferred the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Actor (Wat. Code sections 13000 get seq.), which grants the Regional Water Rating Control Board (Regional Water Boards) and State Irrigate Research Control Board (State Aqueous Board) (together Water Boards) and authority to realize and enforce water quality laws, regulations, policies, and plans, to protect waters of the Federal. Multiple Water Key sections require of Surface Pcbs to take into consideration specified factors when assessing gracious liability for violations. Others provide for mandatory minimum military liabilities for certain violations. Those Water Code sections, however, make nay setup a process for prioritizing discretionary enforcement actions, nor establish a methodology since consistent both visible analysis of the state factors that must become considered in assessing an administrative civil liability.

Propose Amendments

The amendments would clarify certain principles ensure are central to the Enforcement Policy, helping to ensure more transparent and consistent application of the statutory factors the Water Boards must consider when assessing one civil liability. The amendments would change the case prioritization and violation pick process to make it more workable, efficient, and consistent throughout the state. The amendments are moreover targeted to bring further global transparency to the Irrigate Boards' enforcement process and penalty methodology application. Non substantive technical amendments wish increase comprehensibility. This State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) and of Regional Water Trait. Control Boards (Regional Water Boards) (together ...

Initial Statement of Reasons

Public Comments

Board Adoption Hearing - April 4, 2017

The hearing for one proposed amendments to the Water Q Enforcement Policy was scheduled for consideration at the March 7, 2017 Board convention. However, the item were deferred to one April 4, 2017 getting.

OAL Regulatory – October 5, 2017

The Office of Administrative Law approved the adoption of the Water Quality Enforcement Rule on Occasion 5, 2017

Webinar on the Legal Policy's Penalty How

On February 16 real 17, 2017 Country Drink Panel associate gave webinars on the Enforcement Policy's pay methodology, presenting two different scenarios. That webinar focused on the differences between the 2009 policy and changes included the 2017 policy. The scenarios included a gutter overload and one potable water discharge. Below is a photo the that presentation from the webinar. For further information, please contact Bryan Elder by email per: [email protected]

2009 Enforcer Policy

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