Proposed Amendment to the Water Quality Control Plan for the North Coast Region (Basin Plan) to Incorporate Editorial Updates

Introduction

Regional Water Board has prepared a series of editorial amendments to the Basin Plan.  The purpose of the editorial amendments is to make the Basin Plan more user-friendly through non-regulatory language changes such as grammatical corrections, section reordering corrections, and updated language.

Editorial Amendments to the Basin Plan will not cause any change to the regulatory provisions of the Basin Plan, and therefore will be proposed as a "Change without Regulatory Effect" (1 CCR §100).  Because the revisions will not result in any physical change to the environment, the Editorial Amendment is not defined as a project for the purposes of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA).

The editorial amendments of Chapters 1, 3, and 5 have been approved by Office of Administrative Law and are now in effect.

• July 18, 2016 - Approved by the Office of Administrative Law (OAL).
• Notice of Approval OAL Matter Number: 2016-0603-06 
• February 16, 2016 – Approved by the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board)
• Resolution No. 2016-0009 
• June 18, 2015 – Approved by the North Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board (Regional Water Board)
• Resolution No. R1-2015-0013
• Attachment 1- Revised  Chapter 1 (Introduction) and Chapter 5 (Plans and Policies)
• June 18, 2015 – Approved by the Regional Water Board
• Resolution R1-2015-0018
• Attachment 1 - Revised Chapter 3 (Water Quality Objectives)

The schedule for editorial amendment of Chapters 2 (Beneficial Uses), 4 (Implementation Plans), and 6 (Monitoring Plans) is to be determined.