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• require similar monitoring; and <br /> • are more appropriately regulated under a general permit rather than individual permits. <br /> B. California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) <br /> Under CWC section 13389,this action to issue an NPDES permit is exempt from the provisions of <br /> CEQA. <br /> C. State and Federal Regulations,Policies, and Plans <br /> f� <br /> 1. Water Quality Control Plans. The Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay <br /> Basin (the Basin Plan) is the Regional Water Board's master water yuality control planning <br /> document. It designates beneficial uses and water quality objectives(WQOs) for waters of <br /> the State, including surface and groundwater. It also includes implementation programs to <br /> achieve WQOs. The Basin Plan was duly adopted by the Regional Water Board and <br /> approved by the State Water Resources Control Board(State Water Board), the Office of <br /> Administrative Law, and USEPA. Requirements of this Order implement the Basin Plan. <br /> The Basin Plan designates beneficial uses, establishes water quality objectives, and contains <br /> implementation programs and policies to achieve those objectives for all waters addressed <br /> through the plan. The Basin Plan states that the beneficial uses of any specifically identified <br /> water body generally apply to its tributary streams. The Basin Plan may not specifically <br /> identify beneficial uses for every receiving water regulated under this permit,but identifies <br /> present and potential uses for the downstream water body, to which the receiving water,via <br /> an intermediate water body, is tributary. These potential and existing beneficial uses are: <br /> municipal and domestic supply, fish migration and fish spawning, industrial service supply, <br /> navigation, industrial process supply,marine habitat, agricultural supply, estuarine habitat, <br /> groundwater recharge, shellfish harvesting,water contact and non-contact recreation, ocean, <br /> commercial, and sport fishing,wildlife habitat, areas of special biological significance, cold <br /> freshwater and warm freshwater habitat, and preservation of rare and endangered species for <br /> surface waters and municipal and domestic supply, industrial service supply, industrial <br /> process supply, agricultural supply, and freshwater replenishment for groundwaters. In <br /> addition, the Basin Plan implements State Water Board Resolution No. 88-63, which <br /> established state policy that all waters,with certain exceptions, should be considered suitable <br /> or potentially suitable for municipal or domestic supply. Requirements of this Order <br /> 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 goveming <br /> cooling water discharges, providing different and specific numeric and narrative water <br /> quality objectives for new and existing discharges. <br /> The State Water Board's Water Quality Control Plan for Enclosed Bays and Estuaries—Part <br /> 1, Sediment Quality became effective on August 25, 2009. This plan supersedes other <br /> narrative sediment quality objectives and establishes new sediment quality objectives and <br /> Attachment F—Fact Sheet F-9 <br /> For VOC and Fuel General NPDES Permit No.CAG912002 <br />