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WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS -3- PARADISE POINT MARINA SEVEN RESORTS, INC. SAN JOAQUIN COUNTY 10. The beneficial uses of Bishop Cut downstream of the discharge are municipal and domestic, industrial, and agricultural supply; water contact and noncontact recreation; esthetic enjoyment; navigation; ground water recharge, fresh water replenishment; and preservation and enhancement of fish, wildlife and other aquatic resources. 11. The beneficial uses of the underlying ground water are municipal and domestic, industrial, and agricultural supply. 12. The State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) adopted the California Inland Surface Waters Plan and the Enclosed Bays and Estuaries Plan (Plans) on 11 April 1991. On 19 November 1992, the SWRCB adopted amendments to the Plans. The Plans include water quality objectives and other requirements. This discharge is subject to the Plans. This Order implements the Plans. The Enclosed Bays and Estuaries Plan applies to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. However, because the Delta is a freshwater environment, the numerical water quality objectives from the Inland Surface Waters Plan shall be applied there. 13. The Plans allow the Board to excuse a low volume discharger from the requirement to monitor for the constituents listed in them, if the constituents in the discharge have no significant adverse impact on water quality. The average daily flow of this discharge is limited to 0.03 mgd by this Order, and the Board considers it a low volume discharge. The Board also finds that the discharge will have no significant adverse impact on water quality. 14. The State Water Resources Control Board has adopted the Water Quality Control Plan for the Control of Temperature in the Coastal and Interstate Waters and Enclosed Bays and Estuaries of California (The Thermal Plan). This discharge is subject to the requirements of the Thermal Plan and is considered an existing discharge of elevated temperature waste. 15. Effluent limitations, and toxic and pretreatment effluent standards established pursuant to Sections 208(b), 301, 302, 304, and 307 of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and amendments thereto are applicable to the discharge. 16. The discharge is presently governed by Waste Discharge Requirements Order No. 89- 038 , adopted by the Board on 31 March 1989. 17. The action to adopt an NPDES permit is exempt from the provisions of Chapter 3 of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Public Resources Code Section 21100, et seq.), in accordance with Section 13389 of the California Water Code.