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Water Code - Division 7: Water Quality - Chapter 5.6: Bay Protection and Toxic Cleanup (secs. 13390 -13396.9).

Country/Territory
United States of America
Territorial subdivision
California
Document type
Legislation
Date
1989 (2016)
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Environment gen., Sea, Water, Waste & hazardous substances
Keyword
Marine pollution Coastal zone management Hazardous substances Freshwater pollution Pollution control
Geographical area
Americas, Arctic, East Pacific, North America, North Atlantic
Abstract

This Chapter of Division 7 of the Water Code of California requires the State Water Resources Control Board to formulate and adopt a water quality control plan for enclosed bays and estuaries, which shall be known as the California Enclosed Bays and Estuaries Plan, in accordance with the procedures established by this division for adopting water quality control plans. The Board and the regional boards, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health and the Department of Fish and Wildlife, shall develop and maintain a comprehensive program to identify and characterize toxic hot spots and to plan for the cleanup or other appropriate remedial or mitigating actions at the sites, and also to amend water quality control plans and policies to incorporate strategies to prevent the creation of new toxic hot spots and the further pollution of existing hot spots. Each regional board shall complete and submit to the state board a toxic hot spots cleanup plan.

Full text
English
Website
www.waterboards.ca.gov