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WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS GENERAL ORDER NO. R5-2015-0012 6 IN-SITU GROUNDWATER REMEDIATION AND DISCHARGE OF TREATED GROUNDWATER TO LAND concentrations during the life of the project. Increases in salt concentrations in ground water are restricted by Groundwater Limitation E.3, below. 20. On 6 February 2015, the Regional Water Board adopted a Mitigated Negative Declaration for this Order pursuant to the f the California Environmental Quality Act (Public Resources Code Section 21000, et seq.). 21. The discharge is exempt from the requirements of Consolidated Regulations for Treatment, Storage, Processing, or Disposal of Solid Waste, set forth in the Title 27, California Code of Regulations (CCR), section 20005 et seq. (hereafter Title 27), which allows a conditional exemption from some or all of the provisions of Title 27. The exemption, pursuant to Title 27 CCR Section 20090(b), is based on the following: The Regional Water Board is issuing waste discharge requirements. The discharge is in compliance with the applicable Basin Plans. The wastewater does not need to be managed according to Title 220CR, Division 4.5 and Chapter 11 as a hazardous waste. Section 20090(d) allows exemption for a project to cleanup a condition of pollution that resulted from an unauthorized discharge of waste based on the following: The application of amendments to groundwater is at the direction of the Regional Water Board to cleanup and abate conditions of pollution or nuisance resulting from the unauthorized discharge of waste. Wastes removed from the immediate place of release must be discharged according to the Title 27 regulations; and The cleanup actions intended to contain wastes at the place of release shall implement the Title 27 regulations to the extent feasible. 22. Section 13267(b) of the California Water Code provides that: "In conducting an investigation specified in subdivision (a), the Regional Board may require that any person who has discharged, discharges, or is suspected of having discharged or discharging, or who proposes to discharge within its region, or any citizen or domiciliary, or political agency or entity of this state who has discharged, discharges, or is suspected of having discharged or discharging, or who proposes to discharge waste outside of its region that could affect the quality of the waters of the state within its region shall furnish under penalty of perjury, technical or monitoring program reports which the Regional Board requires. The burden, including costs of these reports, shall bear a reasonable relationship to the need for the reports and the benefits to be obtained from the reports. In requiring these reports, the Regional Board shall provide the person with a written explanation with regard to the need for the reports, and shall identify the evidence that supports requiring that person to provide the reports."