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Groundwater VOC and Fuel General Permit ORDER NO.R2-2012-0012
<br /> NPDES NO.CAG912002
<br /> using a calculated numeric water quality criterion, such as a proposed state criterion or policy
<br /> interpreting the state's narrative criterion, supplemented with other relevant information, as
<br /> provided in 40 CFR 122.44(d)(1)(vi).
<br /> I. Water Quality Control Plans. The Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay
<br /> Basin (Basin Plan) is the Regional Water Board's master water quality control planning
<br /> document. It designates beneficial uses and water quality objectives (WQOs) for waters of the
<br /> State, including surface waters and groundwater. It also includes programs of implementation to
<br /> achieve WQOs. The Basin Plan was duly adopted by the Regional Water Board and approved
<br /> by the State Water Board, Office of Administrative Law, and USEPA.
<br /> The Basin Plan states that the beneficial uses of any specifically identified water body generally
<br /> apply to its tributary streams. The Basin Plan may not specifically identify beneficial uses for
<br /> every receiving water regulated under this permit,but may identify present and potential uses for
<br /> the downstream water body, to which the receiving water, via an intermediate water body, is
<br /> tributary. These potential and existing beneficial uses are municipal and domestic supply, fish
<br /> migration and fish spawning, industrial service supply, navigation, industrial process supply,
<br /> marine habitat, agricultural supply, estuarine habitat, groundwater recharge, shellfish harvesting,
<br /> water contact and non-contact recreation, ocean, commercial, and sport fishing, wildlife habitat,
<br /> areas of special biological significance, cold freshwater and warm freshwater habitat, and
<br /> preservation of rare and endangered species for surface waters and municipal and domestic
<br /> supply, industrial service supply, industrial process supply, agricultural supply, and freshwater
<br /> replenishment for groundwaters. In addition, the Basin Plan implements State Water Board
<br /> Resolution No. 88-63, which established State policy that all waters,with certain exceptions,
<br /> should be considered suitable or potentially suitable for municipal or domestic supply.
<br /> Requirements of this Order implement the Basin Plan.
<br /> On September 18, 1975, the State Water Board adopted the Water Quality Control Plan for
<br /> Control of Temperature in the Coastal Interstate Waters and Enclosed Bays and Estuaries of
<br /> California (hereinafter the Thermal Plan). The Thermal Plan contains objectives governing
<br /> cooling water discharges,providing different and specific numeric and narrative water quality
<br /> objectives for new and existing discharges.
<br /> The State Water Board's Water Quality Control Plan for Enclosed Bays and Estuaries Part 1,
<br /> Sediment Quality became effective on August 25, 2009. This plan supersedes other narrative
<br /> sediment quality objectives and establishes new sediment quality objectives and related
<br /> implementation provisions for specifically defined sediments in most bays and estuaries.
<br /> J. National Toxics Rule(NTR) and California Toxics Rule (CTR). USEPA adopted the NTR on
<br /> December 22, 1992, and later amended it on May 4, 1995, and November 9, 1999. About 40
<br /> criteria in the NTR apply in California. On May 18,2000, USEPA adopted the CTR. The CTR
<br /> promulgated new toxics criteria for California and, in addition, incorporated the previously
<br /> adopted NTR criteria that were applicable in the State. The CTR was amended on February 13,
<br /> 2001. These rules contain water quality criteria(WQC) for priority pollutants.
<br /> K. State Implementation Policy. On March 2, 2000, the State Water Board adopted the Policy for
<br /> Implementation of Toxics Standards for Inland Surface Waters, Enclosed Bays, and Estuaries of
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<br /> Limitations and Discharge Requirements
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