Waste discharge requirements: fees.

The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, with certain exceptions, requires a waste discharger to pay an annual fee established by the State Water Resources Control Board. The act requires the total amount of fees collected to equal that amount necessary to recover certain costs relating to the administration of waste discharge requirements. Revenues generated by the imposition of the fee are deposited in the Waste Discharge Permit Fund for expenditure, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for specified water quality purposes. This bill, for the purpose of calculating the annual fee, would specify that recoverable costs also include costs incurred by the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards in the preparation of water quality control plans.