Section 116686.
116686. (a) (1) To provide an adequate supply of affordable, safe drinking water to disadvantaged communities, voluntary participants, and public water systems that have demonstrated difficulty in maintaining technical, managerial, and financial capacity and to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse, the state board may do any of the following, if sufficient funding is available: (A) (i) Contract with, or […]
Section 116590.
116590. (a) Funds received by the state board pursuant to this chapter shall be deposited into the Safe Drinking Water Account, which is hereby established, and shall be available for use by the state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose of providing funds necessary to administer this chapter. Funds in the Safe Drinking […]
Section 116595.
116595. (a) A public water system under the jurisdiction of a local primacy agency shall reimburse the local primacy agency for any enforcement cost incurred by the local primacy agency related to any of the following relating to that water system: (1) Preparing, issuing, and monitoring compliance with, an order or a citation. (2) Preparing […]
Section 116610.
116610. (a) This article shall be known, and may be cited, as the Local Drinking Water Protection Act. (b) For purposes of this article, “MTBE” means methyl tertiary-butyl ether. (c) Commencing January 1, 1998, the State Department of Health Services shall commence the process for adopting a primary drinking water standard for MTBE that complies […]
Section 116612.
116612. On or before January 1, 1999, the California Drinking Water and Toxic Enforcement Act scientific advisory panel shall make a recommendation to the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment on whether MTBE should be listed as a carcinogenic or reproductive toxin as set forth in Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 25102) of Division 4 […]
Section 116625.
116625. (a) The state board, after providing notice to the permittee and opportunity for a hearing, may suspend or revoke any permit issued pursuant to this chapter if the state board determines pursuant to the hearing that the permittee is not complying with the permit, this chapter, or any regulation, standard, or order issued or adopted […]
Section 116650.
116650. (a) If the state board determines that a public water system is in violation of this chapter or any regulation, permit, standard, citation, or order issued or adopted thereunder, the state board may issue a citation to the public water system. The citation shall be served upon the public water system personally or by certified […]
Section 116655.
116655. (a) Whenever the state board determines that any person has violated or is violating this chapter, or any order, permit, regulation, or standard issued or adopted pursuant to this chapter, the state board may issue an order doing any of the following: (1) Directing compliance forthwith. (2) Directing compliance in accordance with a time […]
Section 116660.
116660. (a) Any person who operates a public water system without having an unrevoked permit to do so, may be enjoined from so doing by any court of competent jurisdiction at the suit of the department. (b) When the department determines that any person has engaged in or is engaged in any act or practice that constitutes […]
Section 116665.
116665. Whenever the department determines that any public water system is unable or unwilling to adequately serve its users, has been actually or effectively abandoned by its owners, or is unresponsive to the rules or orders of the department, the department may petition the superior court for the county within which the system has its […]