Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, requires each California regional water quality control board to adopt water quality control plans and to establish water quality objectives in those plans, considering certain factors, to ensure the reasonable protection of beneficial uses and the prevention of nuisance.
This bill would authorize a regional board the State Water Resources Control Board, on behalf of itself or a regional board, to accept and spend donations of moneys from a permittee for the purpose of updating a water quality
control plan, thereby making an appropriation. plan.