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DRAFT [TENTATIVE] WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS ORDER R5-2023-00XX 41 <br />FORWARD, INC. <br />FORWARD LANDFILL <br />SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY <br />numerous discharge points and groundwater monitoring, or (4) any Class I <br />WMUs. <br />140.This Order regulates the discharge of cannery wastes to land, which could result <br />in water quality impacts for nearby disadvantage communities and includes an <br />alternative compliance path that allows time to come into compliance WQOs for <br />salt and nitrate, pursuant to the SCP and NCP, respectively, when the <br />Discharger enrolls in the programs. The Central Valley Water Board has <br />satisfied the outreach requirements set forth in Water Code section 189.7 by <br />conducting outreach in affected disadvantaged communities. Pursuant to Water <br />Code section 13149.2, the Central Valley Water Board reviewed readily available <br />information and information raised to the Board by interested persons concerning <br />anticipated water quality impacts in disadvantaged or tribal communities resulting <br />from adoption of Order; the Board also considered environmental justice <br />concerns within the Board’s authority and raised by interested persons with <br />regard to those impacts. The Board anticipates that the issuance of this Order <br />will result in water quality impacts and environmental justice concerns within the <br />scope of the Board’s authority. The Discharger must submit a Notice of Intent <br />(see Table 17, Item 9) and pursue a mitigation option for salinity and possibly <br />nitrate. It is anticipated that increasing salinity in the cannery waste LAA is <br />degrading the groundwater quality and impacting the surrounding disadvantaged <br />community. The Board has identified the following measures available and within <br />the scope of its authority to address the impacts of the permitted cannery waste <br />land application to the nearby disadvantaged communities of San Joaquin <br />County: 1) enroll SCP and NCP and 2) not exceed the nitrogen loading on the <br />LAA as per Discharge Specification B.11 and CAO R5-2017-0703. <br />Reporting Requirements <br />141.This Order is also issued in part pursuant to Water Code section 13267, subd. <br />(b)(1), which provides that: <br />[T]he regional board may require that any person who has <br />discharged, discharges, or is suspected of having discharged or <br />discharging, or who proposes to discharge waste within its region … <br />shall furnish, under penalty of perjury, technical or monitoring <br />program reports which the regional board requires. The burden, <br />including costs, of these reports shall bear a reasonable relationship <br />to the need for the report and the benefits to be obtained from the <br />reports. In requiring those reports, the regional board shall provide <br />the person with a written explanation with regard to the need for the <br />reports, and shall identify the evidence that supports requiring that <br />person to provide the reports.