California Public Resources Code

§ 4562.7

PRC § 4562.7 Effective Jan 1, 2012Div. 4 · Part 2 · Ch. 8 · Art. 5

Statute text

The purpose of this section is to ensure the protection of beneficial uses that are derived from the physical form, water quality, and biological capability of streams. To these ends, in addition to the rules provided for in Section 4551.5, the board shall adopt rules for control of timber operations that will result or threaten to result in unreasonable effects on the beneficial uses of the waters of the state. The rules shall include rules for:

(a)The disposal of petroleum products, sanitary wastes, refuse, and cleaning agents in proper dumps or waste treatment facilities to prevent them from entering streams.

(b)Construction of logging road and tractor trail stream crossings to assure substantially unimpaired flow of water and to assure free passage of fish both upstream and downstream.

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 584, Sec. 24. (AB 1414) Effective January 1, 2012.