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DRAFT [TENTATIVE] WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS ORDER R5-2023-OOXX 34 FORWARD, INC. FORWARD LANDFILL SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY 122. For the purposes of California Code of Regulations title 23 (Title 23), section 2200, the Facility has a threat-complexity rating of 1-A, where: a. Threat Category "1" reflects waste discharges that can cause long-term loss of receiving water beneficial uses (e.g., drinking water supply loss, water-contact recreation area closures, or posting of areas used for spawning/growth of shellfish or migratory fish); and b. Complexity Category "A" reflects (1) any discharge to toxic wastes, (2) any small volume discharge containing toxic waste, (3) any facility having numerous discharge points and groundwater monitoring, or (4) any Class I WMUs. 123. This Order regulates the discharge of cannery wastes to land, which could result in water quality impacts for nearby disadvantage communities and includes an alternative compliance path that allows time to come into compliance WQOs for salt and nitrate, pursuant to the SCP and NCP, respectively, when the Discharger enrolls in the programs. The Central Valley Water Board has satisfied the outreach requirements set forth in Water Code section 189.7 by conducting outreach in affected disadvantaged communities. Pursuant to Water Code section 13149.2, the Central Valley Water Board reviewed readily available information and information raised to the Board by interested persons concerning anticipated water quality impacts in disadvantaged or tribal communities resulting from adoption of Order; the Board also considered environmental justice concerns within the Board's authority and raised by interested persons with regard to those impacts. The Board anticipates that the issuance of this Order will result in water quality impacts and environmental justice concerns within the scope of the Board's authority. The Discharger must submit a Notice of Intent (see Table 11, Item 9) and pursue a mitigation option for salinity and possibly nitrate. It is anticipated that increasing salinity in the cannery waste land application area is degrading the groundwater quality and impacting the surrounding disadvantaged community. The Board has identified the following measures available and within the scope of its authority to address the impacts of the permitted cannery waste land application to the nearby disadvantaged communities of San Joaquin County: 1) enroll SCP and NCP and 2) not exceed the nitrogen loading on the LAA as per Discharge Specification B.11 and CAO R5-2017-0703. Reporting Requirements 124. This Order is also issued in part pursuant to Water Code section 13267, subdiv. (b)(1), which provides that: