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(a) (1) The Waterway Recovery Account is hereby created in the Waste Discharge Permit Fund.(2) Subject to a future legislative act, 50 30 percent of the annual proceeds of the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account shall be annually transferred to the Waterway Recovery Account.
(3) Moneys in the Waterway Recovery Account shall be expended
distributed by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to bring impaired waters into attainment with water quality standards to the maximum extent possible. Moneys in the Waterway Recovery Account shall only be expended to each regional board on a pro rata basis based on moneys generated in each regional board’s region. Regional boards shall expend those moneys on all of the following:
(A) Restoration projects, including supplemental environmental projects, that improve water quality. Priority shall be given to projects with multiple benefits that
provide greenspace within disadvantaged communities.
(B) Source control programs.
(C) Identifying nonfilers. and enrolling nonfilers into the applicable stormwater national pollutant discharge elimination system (NPDES) order pursuant to Section 402(p) of the federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1342(p)) and Sections 122.26(a)(9)(i)(C) and 122.26(a)(9)(i)(D) of Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(D) Source identification of unknown sources of impairment.
(E) Competitive grants to fund projects
and programs for municipal separate storm sewer system permit compliance requirements that would prevent or remediate pollutants, including zinc, caused by tires in the state. pollutants. Priority shall be given to applicants that discharge to receiving waters in disadvantaged communities with zinc pollutant
levels that exceed the established total maximum daily loads and to projects that provide multiple benefits.
(F) Reimbursement of municipal year one costs to implement and adopt a spatially based stormwater information management system for the municipality to use in prioritizing and communicating where in the community investments in the activities described in subparagraphs (A) to (E), inclusive, would best be made.
(4) Regional boards shall use moneys from the Waterway Recovery Account to fund, to the best of their ability, projects with a significant nexus to the community harmed by the original water quality violation.
(b) (1) The Citizen
Monitoring Account is hereby created in the Waste Discharge Permit Fund.
(2) Subject to a future legislative act, 5 percent of the annual proceeds of the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account Account, but in no instance less than two hundred fifty thousand dollars ($250,000), shall be annually transferred to the Citizen Monitoring Account.
(3) Moneys in the Citizen Monitoring Account shall be available for the state board to expend, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to fund the state board’s SWAMP - Clean Water Team Citizen Monitoring Program to increase water quality monitoring to inform the
state’s integrated report.
report or to establish a priority water-contact recreation site monitoring program that includes posting and notification of water quality hazards at identified water bodies.
(4) The state board shall prioritize moneys in the Citizen Monitoring Account to increase monitoring for inland waterways in overburdened communities, as defined in Section 115917 of the Health and Safety Code.
(5) Moneys in the Citizen Monitoring Account may be allocated for ongoing monitoring and are not required to be spent on discrete projects.
(c) (1) The Community Capacity Building Account is hereby created in the Waste Discharge Permit Fund.
(2) Subject to a future legislative act, 5 10 percent of the annual proceeds of the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account
Account, but in no instance less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000), shall be annually transferred to the Community Capacity Building Account.
(3) Moneys in the Community Capacity Building Account shall be available for the state board to expend, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to create and fund a community capacity program to increase environmental justice disadvantaged and tribal community participation in state board outreach and regulatory processes, including all of the following:
(A) Increasing environmental justice
disadvantaged and tribal community stakeholder participation.
(B) Improving language access.
(C) Improving access to data and information on racial equity.
(D) Improving communication with communities and partners.
(E)Advancing racial equity trainings for the California Environmental Protection Agency’s racial equity workforce.
(F)
(E) Bridging the digital divide to increase public participation in underserved disadvantaged and tribal communities.
(4) Moneys in the Community Capacity Building Account may be allocated for ongoing implementation of paragraph (3) and are not required to be spent on discrete projects.
(d) (1) The Stormwater Innovation Account is hereby created in the Waste Discharge Permit Fund.
(2) Subject to a future legislative act, 5 percent of the annual proceeds
of the State Water Pollution Cleanup and Abatement Account shall be annually transferred to the Stormwater Innovation Account.
(3) Moneys in the Stormwater Innovation Account shall be available for the state board to expend, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for all of the following in relation to stormwater management:
(A) Funding best management practice research innovation.
(B) Verifying Defining standardized methods to measure stormwater best management practice effectiveness.
effectiveness at the site and drainage scale.
(C) Collecting
and analyzing best management practice effectiveness data.
(e)For purposes of this section, “integrated report” means the state report that includes the list of impaired waters required pursuant to Section 303(d) of the federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1313(d)) and the water quality assessment required pursuant to Section 305(b) of the federal Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1315(b)).
(D) Establishing long-term monitoring sites based on the methods defined pursuant to subparagraph (B) and defining specifically how the
monitoring data will inform site and drainage scale modeling of all unmonitored areas.