Onsite sewage treatment systems: recommended standards.

Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, on or before January 1, 2004, requires the State Water Resources Control Board, in consultation with other persons and entities, to adopt regulations or standards for the permitting and operation of specified onsite sewage treatment systems. The act requires the board to apply those regulations or standards to those systems commencing 6 months after their adoption. This bill, instead, would require the state board, in consultation with other persons and entities, to adopt recommended standards for the permitting and operation of those systems.