Denise Moreno Ducheny
- Democratic
Author
(1) Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards prescribe waste discharge requirements in accordance with the federal Clean Water Act and the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act (state act) . The state act, with certain exceptions, imposes a mandatory minimum penalty of $3,000 for each serious waste discharge violation or for certain other described violations if those violations occur 4 or more times in any period of 6 consecutive months, as prescribed. For purposes of the mandatory minimum penalty, a serious waste discharge violation includes a failure to file a specified discharge monitoring report for each complete period of 30 days following the deadline for submitting the report. Civil liability may be imposed administratively by the state board or a regional board, or those boards may request the Attorney General to petition the superior court to impose the liability. This bill would provide that a failure to file a discharge monitoring report is not a serious waste discharge violation if the discharger submits a specified statement to the state board or the regional board. The bill, until January 1, 2014, would require, with respect to certain violations involving the failure to file a discharge monitoring report, the mandatory minimum penalty of $3,000 to be assessed only for each required report that is not timely filed, and not for each 30-day period following the deadline for submitting the report. (2) The state act includes within the exceptions to the imposition of those mandatory minimum penalties a violation of an effluent limitation if the waste discharge complies with a certain time schedule order and other requirements are met. The act prohibits, for the purposes of that exception, a time schedule order from exceeding 5 years in length, except as otherwise provided. This bill, with a specified exception, would authorize a regional board, following a public hearing and upon a showing that the discharger is making diligent progress toward bringing the waste discharge into compliance with the effluent limitation, to extend the time schedule for an additional period not exceeding 5 years in length, under specified conditions.
Approved by Governor.
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 645, Statutes of 2010.
Enrolled. To Governor at 4 p.m.
Senate concurs in Assembly amendments. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4927.) To enrollment.
In Senate. To unfinished business.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6677.) To Senate.
Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. (Page 6463.)
Read third time. Amended. (Page 6430.) To third reading.
Read second time. To third reading.
(Heard in committee August 12.)
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.)
Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
(Heard in committee on June 29.)
From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
(Heard in committee on June 15.)
From committee: Do pass, but first be re-referred to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
To Coms. on E.S. & T.M. and JUD.
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 0. Page 3784.) To Assembly.
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
Read second time. Amended. To third reading.
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 3674.)
Set for hearing May 27.
(Suspense - for vote only.)
Placed on APPR suspense file.
Set for hearing May 10.
Read second time. Amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3300.)
Set for hearing April 19.
To Com. on EQ.
From print. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| SB1284 | HTML |
| 02/19/10 - Introduced | |
| 04/26/10 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/02/10 - Amended Senate | |
| 06/23/10 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/20/10 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/31/10 - Enrolled | |
| 09/30/10 - Chaptered |
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