§ 13146 Water Quality Compliance Rules

• •State offices must follow the rules for keeping water clean.
• •If they can't follow the rules, they have to tell the state board why in writing.
• •They can only break the rules if another law says they can.

A state department wants to build a new road near a river.

They must follow the water quality rules to keep the river clean. If they think they need to do something that might dirty the water, they have to write to the state board and explain why they think it's okay, or show a law that lets them do it.