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CALIFORNIA REGIONAL WATER QUALITY CONTROL BOARD CENTRAL VALLEY REGION ORDER NO. NPDES NO. CA0003883 WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS FOR GOLD BOND BUILDING PRODUCTS, INC. NATIONAL GYPSUM COMPANY SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY The California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region, (hereafter Board) , finds that: 1. Gold Bond Building Products (hereafter Discharger) , submitted a Report of Waste Discharge, dated 29 June 1984, to discharge waste under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES). 2. This facility was formerly owned and operated by Pacific Paperboard Products, Incorporated. On 1 July 1981 Gold Bond Building Products became the new owner. The Discharger produces various cereal and pastry containers. 3. The Discharger discharges an average of 2.1 mgd and proposes to discharge a maximum of 3. 5 mgd of noncontact process cooling water from the Stockton Plant into a culvert, referred to as McDougald Slough, which flows into Morman Slough, the Stockton Ship Channel , and then to the San Joaquin river, waters of the United States, at a point in the southeast 1/4 of Section 9, TIN, R6E, MOB&M, in the City of Stockton. 4. The Report of Waste Discharge describes the existing discharge as follows: Average Flow: 2.1 mgd Maximum Design Flow: 3.5 mgd Average Temperature: 96 °F Summer and Winter 5. The State Water Resources Control Board, on 18 May 1972 adopted a "Water Quality Control Plan for Control of Temperature in the Coastal and Interstate Waters and Enclosed Bays and Estuaries of California (hereafter called Thermal Plan). 6. The Board, in a public hearing on 20 December 1974, adopted Resolution No. 74-563 which granted exception to certain provisions of the Thermal Plan. - The exceptions were approved by the State Water Resources Control Board and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.