Legal Opinion
City of Burbank v. State Water Resources Control Board
California Supreme Court
Decided April 4, 2005No. S119248, B151175, B152562PublishedCited by 58 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion
KENNARD, J.
Federal law establishes national water quality standards but allows the states to enforce their own water quality laws so long as they comply with federal standards. Operating within this federal-state framework, California’s nine Regional Water Quality Control Boards establish water quality policy. They also issue permits for the discharge of treated waste-water; these permits specify the maximum allowable concentration of chemical pollutants in the discharged wastewater.
The question here is this: When a regional board issues a permit to a wastewater treatment facility,…
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