The State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) will accept comments on the proposed approval of the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board’s (Central Valley Water Board’s) amendments to the Water Quality Control Plans for the Sacramento River and San Joaquin River Basins and the Tulare Lake Basin to establish a region-wide Municipal and Domestic Supply (MUN) beneficial use evaluation process in agriculturally dominated surface water bodies and to remove the MUN beneficial use from 231 constructed or modified ag drains in the San Luis Canal Company District. The Basin Plan amendments were adopted by the Central Valley Water Board on August 11, 2017, and is available for review at: http://www.waterboards.ca.gov/centralvalley/water_issues/salinity/mun_beneficial_use/index.shtml
A copy of the Basin Plan amendments can also be received by mail by contacting
Anne Littlejohn at (916) 464-4840 or anne.littlejohn@waterboards.ca.gov.
Persons interested in the Basin Plan amendments are encouraged to submit comments electronically. Comment letters must be received by 12:00 noon on October 30, 2017 November 13, 2017. Comment letters received after that deadline will not be accepted unless the State Water Board determines otherwise.
Click here for the revised notice: revised notice_r5_mun bpa
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