[an error occurred while processing this directive]
ENFORCE: WASTE DISCHARGE REQUIREMENTS |
| MEASURE: PENALTIES | ||||||||||
|
|
During fiscal year 2008-2009 a significant number of Administrative Civil Liability actions were issued under the WDR-NON15 program. This large number of actions o assessed a significant amount in penalties of which approximately sixty percent have thus far been resolved with an approved supplemental environmental project and forty percent with direct payments into the Cleanup and Abatement Account or into the Waste Discharge Permit Fund. It is also significant to point out the large number of cases that remain in progress and therfore the assessed amounts are not finally settled.
California law and the Water Boards enforcement policy establishes the circumstances for which violations must receive a penalty and in what amount. In certain cases, the Water Boards have the discretion of imposing administrative civil liabilities after considering certain factors. The Regional Boards can also consider whether the discharger should be allowed to satisfy some or all of the monetary assessment by completing or funding one or more supplemental environmental projects or by depositing the penalty amount in a specified fund. Preparing each case for prosecution requires a significant amount of time and resources. This measure describes a significant workload for the enforcement program.
)
.