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STATE WATER RESOURCES CONTROL BOARD its representatives and the representatives of the RESOLUTION NO. 92139 Regional Water Boards shall follow for the (As Amended on April 21, 1994 and October 2, 1996) oversight of investigations and cleanup and abatement activities resulting from discharges of POLICIES AND PROCEDURES hazardous substances, including: FOR INVESTIGATION AND a. The procedures the State Water Board and the CLEANUP AND ABATEMENT OF Regional Water Boards will follow in making DISCHARGES UNDER decisions as to when a person may be required WATER CODE SECTION 13304 to undertake an investigation to determine if an unauthorized hazardous substance discharge has occurred; b. Policies for carrying out a phased, step-by-step WHEREAS: investigation to determine the nature and extent of possible soil and ground water contamination I. California Water Code (WC) Section 13001 or pollution at a site; provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that the State Water Resources Control Board (State c. Procedures for identifying and utilizing the Water Board) and each Regional Water Quality most cost-effective methods for detecting Control Board (Regional Water Board) shall be contamination or pollution and cleaning up or the principal state agencies with primary abating the effects of contamination or responsibility for the coordination and control of pollution; water quality. The State and Regional Water d. Policies for determining reasonable schedules Boards shall conform to and implement the for investigation and cleanup, abatement, or policies of the Porter-Cologne Water Quality other remedial action at a site. The policies Control Act (Division 7, commencing with WC shall recognize the danger to public health and Section 13000) and shall coordinate their the waters of the state posed by an respective activities so as to achieve a unified and unauthorized discharge and the need to mitigate effective water quality control program in the state; those dangers while at the same time taking 2. WC Section 13140 provides that the State Water into account, to the extent possible, the Board shall formulate and adopt State Policy for resources, both financial and technical, Water Quality Control; available to the person responsible for the discharge; 3. WC Section 13240 provides that Water Quality Control Plans shall conform to any State Policy for 6. "Waters of the state" include both ground water Water Quality Control; and surface water, 4. WC Section 13304 requires that any person who 7. Regardless of the type of discharge, procedures and has discharged or discharges waste into waters of policies applicable to investigations, and cleanup the state in violation of any waste discharge and abatement activities are similar. It is in the requirement or other order or prohibition issued by best interest of the people of the state for the State a Regional Water Board or the State Water Board, Water Board to provide consistent guidance for or who has caused or permitted, causes or permits, Regional Water Boards to apply to investigation, or threatens to cause or permit any waste to be and cleanup and abatement; discharged or deposited where it is, or probably g, WC Section 13260 requires any person discharging will be, discharged into the waters of the state and or proposing to discharge waste that could affect creates, or threatens to create, a condition of waters of the state, or proposing to change the pollution or nuisance may be required to clean up character, location, or volume of a discharge to file the discharge and abate the effects thereof. This a report with and receive requirements from the section authorizes Regional Water Boards to Regional Water Board; require complete cleanup of all waste discharged y WC Section 13267 provides that the Regional and restoration of affected water to background Water Board may require dischargers, past conditions (i.e., the water quality that existed bdischargers, or suspected dischargers to furnish before the discharge). The term waste discharge requirements includes those which implement the those technical or monitoring reports as the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System; Regional Water Board may specify, provided that the burden, including costs, of these reports, shall 5. WC Section 13307 provides that the State Water Board shall establish policies and procedures that