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L2. The potential for the pollutants to 5. The designation of a containment zone attenuate or degrade and the nature of shall be accomplished through the adoption the breakdown products; and of a cleanup and abatement order as li. Potential adverse effects on approved authorized by WC Section 13304. The local development plans, including Regional Water Board shall make a finding plans approved by redevelopment of fact with regard r p each the agencies or the California Coastal conditions which serve as a prerequisite for Commission. containment zone designation in the cleanup and abatement order. All c. No provision of this Policy shall be applicable criteria of Section III.H. must be interpreted to allow exposure levels of met as a prerequisite to designation. The constituents of concem that could have a Regional Water Board may reject an significant adverse effect on human health application for designation of a or the environment containment zone for failure to meet any d. A containment zone shall not be designated applicable criteria without having to make in a critical recharge area. A critical findings with regard to each prerequisite. recharge area is an artificial recharge area Such orders shall be adopted by the or an area determined by the Regional Regional Water Boards themselves and not Water Board to be a critical recharge arca issued by the Executive Officers of the after the consultation process required by Regional Water Boards. These orders shall Section III.H.9. Further, a containment ensure compliance with all procedures, zone shall not be designated if it would be conditions, and restrictions set forth in inconsistent with a local ground water Section III.H. As authorized by WC management plan developed pursuant to Section 13308, time schedules issued as Part 2.75 of Division 6 of the WC part of the establishment of a containmen4 (commencing at Section 10750) or other zone may prescribe a civil penalty which provisions of law or court order, iudgment shall become due if compliance is not or decree: achieved in accordance with that time schedule: 6. A containment zone shall be implemented 4. After designation, no further action to only with the written agreement of all fee reduce pollutant levels, beyond that which interest owners of the parcel(s) of property is specified in the management plan, wjll containing the containment zone. be required within a containment zone Exceptions may be allowed by the unless the Regional Water Board finds that Regional Water Board where opposition is the discharger(s) has failed to fully found to be unreasonable. In such cases implement the required management plan the Regional Water Board may use the or that violation of water quality obiectives authority of WC Section 13267 to assure has occurred beyond the containment zone, access to property overlying the as a result of migration of chemicals from containment zone; inside the containment zone. If the required tasks contained in the approved 7. Local agencies which are supervising management plan are not implemented, or cleanup under contract with the State Water appropriate access is not granted by the Board or by agreement with the Regional discharger to the Regional Water Board for Water Board pursuant to provisions of the purposes of comoliance inspection, or Underground Storage Tank Program may violation of water quality obiectives occurs propose containment zones for outside the containment zone and that consideration by the Regional Water Board. violation is attributable to the dischame in The local agency will forward its files and the containment zone. the Regional Water proposal to the Regional Water Board for Board, after 45 days public notice, shall consideration. Regional Water Boards Promptly revoke the zone's containment shall use the same procedures, processes. status and shall take appropriate public notice, and criteria that are noted enforcement action against the discharger, elsewhere in this policv. Approval of Technical Impracticability Waivers by the Department of Toxic Substances Control or 10