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• WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS -3- SHELL OIL COMPANY STOCKTON BULK FUEL DISTRIBUTION FACILITY SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY 11. The Board has considered antidegradation pursuant to 40 CFR 131.12 and State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) Resolution 68-16 and finds that the permitted discharge is consistent with those provisions. This Order provides for an increase in the volume and mass of pollutants discharged. The increase will not cause significant impacts on aquatic life or other beneficial uses. The discharge accommodates economic expansion in the area, a benefit to the people of the state. 12. The SWRCB Water Quality Control Plan for Control of Temperatures in Coastal and Interstate Waters and Enclosed Bays and Estuaries of California (the Thermal Plan) is applicable to this discharge. 13. The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) adopted the California Inland Surface Waters Plan and the Enclosed Bays and Estuaries Plan (Plans) on 11 April 1991. On 19 November 1992 the SWRCB adopted amendments to the Plans. The Plans include water quality objectives and other requirements. This discharge is subject to the Plans. This Order implements the Plans. The Enclosed Bays and Estuaries Plan applies to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. However, because the Delta is a freshwater environment, the numerical water quality objectives from the Inland Surface Waters Plan shall be applied there. 14. The Plan(s) allow the Board to excuse a low volume discharger from the requirement to monitor for the constituents listed in them, if the constituents in the discharge have no significant adverse impact on water quality. Although the discharge will be up to 230,000 gallons per day when the discharge is occurring, the total monthly flow will not exceed 460,000 gallons. The Board considers it a low volume discharge. The Board also finds that the discharge will have no significant adverse impact on water quality. 15. The SWRCB adopted the Water Quality Control Plan for Salinity, San Francisco Bay/San Joaquin Delta Estuary on 1 May 1991. The Plan includes water quality objectives. This Order implements the Plan. 16. Effluent limitations, and toxic and pretreatment effluent standards established pursuant to Sections 301, 302, 304, and 307 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and amendments thereto are applicable to the discharge. 17. The action to adopt an NPDES permit is exempt from the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) (Public Resources Code Section 21000, et seq.), in accordance with Section 13389 of the California Water Code. 18. The Board has notified the Discharger and interested agencies and persons of its intent to prescribe waste discharge requirements for this discharge and has provided them with an opportunity for a public hearing and an opportunity to submit their written views and recommendations. 19. The Board, in a public meeting, heard and considered all comments pertaining to the discharge.