California Water Code ARTICLE 4 - Waste Discharge Requirements

• Section 13260.
  (a) Each of the following persons shall file with the appropriate regional board a report of the discharge, containing the information that may be required by...
• Section 13260.2.
  (a) The state board shall establish a fee in an amount sufficient to recover its costs in reviewing, processing, and enforcing “no exposure” certifications issued to...
• Section 13260.3.
  On or before January 1 of each year, the state board shall report to the Governor and the Legislature on the expenditure of annual fees...
• Section 13261.
  (a) A person who fails to furnish a report or pay a fee under Section 13260 when so requested by a regional board is guilty of...
• Section 13262.
  The Attorney General, at the request of the regional board or the state board, shall petition the superior court for the issuance of a temporary...
• Section 13263.
  (a) The regional board, after any necessary hearing, shall prescribe requirements as to the nature of any proposed discharge, existing discharge, or material change in an...
• Section 13263.1.
  Before a regional board issues or revises waste discharge requirements pursuant to Section 13263 for any discharge of mining waste, the regional board shall first...
• Section 13263.2.
  The owner or operator of a facility that treats groundwater which qualifies as a hazardous waste pursuant to Chapter 6.5 (commencing with Section 25100) of...
• Section 13263.3.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that pollution prevention should be the first step in a hierarchy for reducing pollution and managing wastes, and to achieve...
• Section 13263.3.a.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that pollution prevention should be the first step in a hierarchy for reducing pollution and managing wastes, and to achieve...
• Section 13263.5.
  (a) When the regional board issues waste discharge requirements pursuant to Section 13263, or revises waste discharge requirements pursuant to subdivision (g) of Section 25159.17 of...
• Section 13263.6.
  (a) A publicly owned treatment works (POTW) may require pollution prevention plans as described in Section 13263.3 as part of the pretreatment requirements applicable to significant...
• Section 13263.6.a.
  (a) The regional board shall prescribe effluent limitations as part of the waste discharge requirements of a POTW for all substances that the most recent toxic...
• Section 13263.7.
  (a) Compliance with effluent limitations and any other permit or waste discharge requirements, as appropriate, for the release or discharge of recycled water determined to be...
• Section 13264.
  (a) No person shall initiate any new discharge of waste or make any material changes in any discharge, or initiate a discharge to, make any material...
• Section 13265.
  (a) Any person discharging waste in violation of Section 13264, after such violation has been called to his attention in writing by the regional board, is...
• Section 13266.
  Pursuant to such regulations as the regional board may prescribe, each city, county, or city and county shall notify the regional board of the filing...
• Section 13267.
  (a) A regional board, in establishing or reviewing any water quality control plan or waste discharge requirements, or in connection with any action relating to any...
• Section 13267.5.
  (a) In conducting an investigation pursuant to Section 13267 that includes collection of information about discharge of wastewater produced from an oil or gas field, a...
• Section 13268.
  (a) (1) Any person failing or refusing to furnish technical or monitoring program reports as required by subdivision (b) of Section 13267, failing or refusing to furnish...
• Section 13269.
  (a) (1) On and after January 1, 2000, the provisions of subdivisions (a) and (c) of Section 13260, subdivision (a) of Section 13263, or subdivision (a) of...
• Section 13270.
  Where a public agency as defined in subdivision (b) of Section 13400 leases land for waste disposal purposes to any other public agency, including the...
• Section 13271.
  (a) (1) Except as provided by subdivision (b), any person who, without regard to intent or negligence, causes or permits any hazardous substance or sewage to be...
• Section 13272.
  (a) Except as provided by subdivision (b), any person who, without regard to intent or negligence, causes or permits any oil or petroleum product to be...
• Section 13272.1.
  Each regional board shall publish and distribute on a quarterly basis to all public water system operators within the region of the regional board, a...
• Section 13273.
  (a) The state board shall, on or before January 1, 1986, rank all solid waste disposal sites, as defined in paragraph (5) of subdivision (i) of...
• Section 13273.1.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), an operator of a solid waste disposal site may submit a solid waste assessment questionnaire to the appropriate regional...
• Section 13273.2.
  Notwithstanding subdivision (b) of Section 13273.1, a regional board may reevaluate the status of any solid waste disposal site ranked pursuant to Section 13273, including...
• Section 13273.3.
  As used in Sections 13273, 13273.1, and 13273.2, “operator” means a person who operates or manages, or who has operated or managed, the solid waste...
• Section 13273.5.
  Notwithstanding Section 13273, a small city which operates a Class III solid waste disposal site is not required to submit a solid waste water quality...
• Section 13274.
  (a) (1) The state board or a regional board, upon receipt of applications for waste discharge requirements for discharges of dewatered, treated, or chemically fixed sewage sludge...
• Section 13275.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a public water system regulated by the state board pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 116270) of Part 12 of...
• Section 13276.
  (a) The multiagency task force, the Department of Fish and Wildlife and state board pilot project to address the Environmental Impacts of Cannabis Cultivation, assigned to...

Last modified: October 22, 2018