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TECHNICAL REPORTING ORDER R5-2017-0839 _2- SAN JOAQUIN COGEN, LLC, ETAL HEOROT POWER HOLDINGS 17200 MURPHY PARKWAY, LATHROP SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY LEGAL PROVISIONS 5. The Central Valley Water Board's Water Quality Control Plan for the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River Basins, 4th Edition (Basin Plan) designates beneficial uses of the waters of the State, establishes water quality objectives (WQOs) to protect these uses, and establishes implementation policies to implement WQOs. The designated beneficial uses of the groundwater beneath the Site are domestic, municipal, industrial, and agricultural supply. 6. CWC section 13267 states, in part: (b)(1) In conducting an investigation . . ., 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 waste 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 report and the benefits to be obtained from the reports. In requiring those 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. The Discharger owns the property and/or operated the former San Joaquin Cogen plant, which was situated on property containing two unpermitted landfill cells that resulted in suspected discharge of wastes, specifically: dioxin/furan compounds, polychlorinated biphenyls, and petroleum hydrocarbons, to groundwater. Therefore, the Discharger is a "person who has discharged, or is suspected of having discharged waste" within the meaning of CWC section 13267. The reports required herein are necessary to delineate the nature and extent of the contamination beneath the Site, to assure protection of waters of the state, and to protect public health and the environment. 7. CWC section 13268 states, in part: (a)(1) Any person failing or refusing to furnish technical or monitoring program reports as required by subdivision (b) of Section 13267 . . . or falsifying any information provided therein, is guilty of a misdemeanor and may be liable civilly in accordance with subdivision (b). (b)(1) Civil liability may be administratively imposed by a regional board in accordance with Article 2.5 (commencing with Section 13323) of Chapter 5 for a violation of subdivision (a) in an amount which shall not exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000) for each day in which the violation occurs. (c) Any person discharging hazardous waste, as defined in Section 25117 of the Health and Safety Code, who knowingly fails or refuses to furnish technical or monitoring program reports as required by subdivision (b) of Section 13267, or who