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Administrative Draft Environmental Impact Report Gill Medical Center Project narrative water quality objectives, which are applicable to certain water bodies or portions of water bodies. 4.12.4.3 State Water Resources Control Board Resolution No. 68-16: Statement of Policy with Respect to Maintaining High Quality Waters in California The goal of SWRCB Resolution No. 68-16 ("Statement of Policy with Respect to Maintaining High Quality Waters in California") is to maintain high quality waters where they exist in the state. Resolution No. 68-16 states, in part: 1. Whenever the existing quality of water is better than the quality established in policies as of the date on which such policies become effective, such existing high quality will be maintained until it has been demonstrated to the State that any change will be consistent with maximum benefit to the people of the State, will not unreasonably affect present and anticipated beneficial use of such water and will not result in water quality less than that prescribed in the policies. 2. Any activity which produces or may produce a waste or increased volume or concentration of waste and which discharges or proposes to discharge to existing high quality waters will be required to meet waste discharge requirements which will result in the best practicable treatment or control of the discharge necessary to assure that (a) a pollution or nuisance will not occur and (b) the highest water quality consistent with maximum benefit to the people of the State will be maintained. The SWRCB has interpreted Resolution No. 68-16 to incorporate and be consistent with the federal antidegradation policy (RWQCB 2016). 4.12.4.4 Statewide National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Storm Water Permit for General Construction Activity The SWRCB has issued a general NPDES permit for stormwater discharges associated with construction activity of greater than one acre in size—Order 2009-0009-DWQ, as amended by Orders 2010-0014-DWQ and 2012-0006-DWQ (General Construction Permit). The General Construction Permit requires the preparation of a SWPPP that identifies and describes the best management practices (BMPs) to be implemented at construction sites to control pollution from stormwater runoff. Coverage is obtained by submitting a Notice of Intent (NOI), risk assessment, post-construction calculations, a site map, the SWPPP, and a signed certification statement by the legally responsible person to the SWRCB prior to construction. 4.12.4.5 Central Valley Flood Protection Board Any project encroaching into rivers, waterways, and floodways within and adjacent to federal- and state- authorized flood control projects or within designated floodways must receive approval from the CVFPB. Under Water Code §§ 8534, 8608, and 8710-8723, the CVFPB is required to enforce, within its jurisdiction, on behalf of the State of California, appropriate standards for the construction, maintenance, and Hydrology and Water Quality 4.12-18 October 2021