Section 64669.20 - Joint Plan(a) A DiPRRA shall develop a joint plan that describes partner agency coordination procedures and includes the following:(1) Identification of each partner agency, the roles and responsibilities of each partner agency, the legal authority of each partner agency to fulfill its role and responsibilities, and the overall organizational structure involved in implementing the joint plan over a 20-year life cycle planning horizon;(2) Procedures to ensure that operations are conducted in accordance with an approved operations plan pursuant to section 64669.80;(3) Procedures to ensure that the DiPRRA will have knowledge of the current status of treatment for the entire DPR project at all times;(4) A description of corrective actions to be taken to protect public health if water delivered from a water treatment plant fails to meet the requirements of this Article;(5) Procedures to ensure that monitoring is conducted in accordance with an approved monitoring plan pursuant to section 64669.90;(6) Procedures to ensure that the DiPRRA will have knowledge of the current status of water quality monitoring pursuant to sections 64669.60 and 64669.65 and water quality monitoring results;(7) A plan to investigate and implement wastewater treatment improvement that would enable a water treatment plant that provides treatment pursuant to this Article to reduce the level of chemicals to lowest achievable concentrations;(8) Procedures to ensure the wastewater source control program complies with the requirements pursuant to section 64669.40;(9) Procedures for providing access to all DPR project facilities, operations, and records for inspection at any time by the State Board;(10) A plan to timely communicate water quality status and water quality monitoring results among the DiPRRA and partner agencies;(11) Procedures the DiPRRA will implement for notifying partner agency(ies) and the State Board of:(A) Operational changes that may adversely affect the quality of DPR project water delivered by a water treatment plant; and(B) Treatment failure incidents and the corresponding corrective actions taken;(12) Procedures for notifying customers pursuant to sections 64669.25, 64669.60, and 64669.125, and the procedures for receiving customer water quality complaints and reports of gastrointestinal illness pursuant to section 64669.95;(13) Procedures to implement cross-connection control requirements pursuant to section 64669.105;(14) Procedures to optimize corrosion control to reduce lead and copper levels in the distribution system; and(15) The steps the DiPRRA and partner agency(ies) will take to provide an alternative source of domestic water supply or drinking water in the event that the DPR project is unable to supply water.(b) Entities that collect the municipal wastewater, provide the municipal wastewater to the DPR project, provide wastewater source control, provide treatment pursuant to the requirements of this Article, or use DPR project water as a source of supply for a water treatment plant that delivers water to a water distribution system of a public water system shall participate in the joint plan as a partner agency; notwithstanding that, if an entity pursuant to section 64669.40(a) is the designated authority over wastewater connections and the industrial pretreatment and pollutant source control program for associated upstream entities that collect the municipal wastewater, then the associated upstream entities that collect the municipal wastewater are not required to participate in the Joint Plan as partner agencies.(c) A joint plan shall be signed by a DiPRRA and each partner agency. The DiPRRA shall require that each partner agency implements the action(s) designated in the joint plan.(d) The joint plan shall include copies of all agreements, such as Joint Powers Authority or bilateral agreements, that were executed to facilitate the operation of the DPR project.(e) A DiPRRA shall submit an updated joint plan under the following circumstances: when there is a change in organization, responsibility, authority to fulfill a role, operation, or ownership of the DiPRRA or partner agency, including the addition of any partner agency; or when there is a change in the information provided pursuant to subsection (a). Updates to the joint plan shall be submitted to the State Board not less than sixty (60) days prior to the effective date of any change required by this subsection.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 64669.20
Note: Authority cited: Sections 13521 and 13561.2, Water Code; and Sections 116271, 116350 and 116375, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 13520, 13561, 13561.2 and 13567, Water Code; and Sections 116275, 116375, 116400, 116530 and 116735, Health and Safety Code.
1. New section filed 8-6-2024; operative 10/1/2024 (Register 2024, No. 32).