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13246.  (a) The state board shall act upon any water quality control
plan not later than 60 days from the date the regional board
submitted the plan to the state board, or 90 days from the date of
resubmission of the plan.
   (b) When the state board is acting upon a water quality control
plan that is being amended solely for an action related to a regional
board's total maximum daily load submittal, not including submittals
related to listing, the state board shall not exceed the 60-day
timeline, inclusive of the time spent sending the submittal back to
the regional board, unless one of the following circumstances exists:
   (1) The proposed amendment is for an exceedingly complex total
maximum daily load. In order to determine if a total maximum daily
load is exceedingly complex, the state board may consider a number of
factors including, but not limited to, the volume of the record, the
number of pollutants included, the number of dischargers and land
uses involved, and the size of the watershed. The reason or reasons
that any total maximum daily load is determined to be exceedingly
complex shall be provided by the state board to the regional board in
writing.
   (2) The submittal by the regional board is clearly incomplete.

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