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�AANIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY COOL BOARD <br /> CENTRAL VALLEY REGION <br /> ORDER NO. <br /> NPDES NO. CA0003883 <br /> WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS T <br /> FOR <br /> GOLD BOND BUILDING PRODUCTS, INC. <br /> NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPANY <br /> SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY E <br /> The California Regional Water Quality Control Boand, Central Valley Region, <br /> (hereafter Board) finds that: <br /> 1. Gold Bond Building Products (hereafter Discharger) , submitted a Report of N <br /> Waste Discharge, dated 29 June 1984, to discharge waste under the National <br /> Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) . The Discharger is <br /> currently governed by Order No. 79-186. <br /> 2. This facility was formerly owned and operated by the Fibreboard Corporation <br /> and Pacific Paperboard Products, Incorporated. On 1 July 1981, Gold Bond <br /> Building Products became the new owner. Gold Bond produces construction <br /> grade paper board products from recycled newsprint. <br /> 3. The Discharger discharges an average of 2.1 mgd, and proposes to discharge <br /> a maximum of 3.5 mgd, of noncontact process cooling water into a <br /> referred to as McDougald Slough, which is tributary to Mormon Slough, the <br /> Stockton Ship Channel , and then the San Joaquin river, waters of the <br /> United States, at a point in the southeast 1/4 of Section 9, TIN, R6E, <br /> MOB&M. <br /> 4. The Report of Waste Discharge describes the existing discharge as follows: <br /> Average Flow: 2.1 mgd <br /> Maximum Design Flow: 3.5 mgd <br /> Average Temperature: 96 OF Summer and Winter <br /> 5. The State Water Resources Control Board, on 18 May 1972, adopted a "Water <br /> Quality Control Plan for Control of Temperature in the Coastal and <br /> Interstate Waters and Enclosed Bays and Estuaries of California (hereafter n <br /> called Thermal Plan) . V <br /> b. The Board, in a public hearing on 20 December 1974, acgR-Ted Resolution No. <br /> 74-563 which granted to Fibreboard (now Gold Bond) an exception to certain <br /> provisions of the Thermal Plan. The exception was authorized because the <br /> Board found that compliance with the Thermal Plan would have required <br /> modifications to the facility not commensurate with the benefits to the <br /> aquatic environment. The exceptions were approved by the State Water <br /> Resources Control Board and the United States Environmental Protection <br /> Agency. <br />