Editorial Basin Plan Amendment
Regional Water Board staff is preparing a series of editorial amendments to the Basin Plan; the purpose of these 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. Development of the Editorial Amendment will be prepared chapter by chapter. Each chapter will be presented to the Regional Water Board for individual consideration.
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 edits 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). Suggested changes to the Basin Plan that arise as part of the Editorial Amendment process, which could have a regulatory effect, will be summarized and addressed as part of the Triennial Review process.
The proposed schedule for the Editorial Amendment is as follows:
- June 2008................Workshop on Chapter 2 – Beneficial Uses
- July 2008................Hearing on Chapter 2 – Beneficial Uses
- October 2008...........Workshop on Chapter 3 – Water Quality Objectives
- Early 2009...............Hearing on Chapter 3 – Water Quality Objectives
- Spring 2009.............Chapter 4 – Implementation Plans
- Summer 2009............Chapter 5 – Plans and Policies and Appendices
- Fall/Winter 2009........Chapter 6 – Surveillance and Monitoring
- Early 2010...............Chapter 1 – Introduction
The following Editorial Basin Plan Amendment documents are available:
- Editorial Basin Plan Amendment Chapter 1-Introduction with proposed changes in strike-out/underline format as of March 6, 2008
- Editorial Basin Plan Amendment Chapter 1-Introduction with proposed changes incorporated as of March 6, 2008
- Editorial Changes to Chapter 1 - Public Comments and Response to Comments as of March 6, 2008