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The Governor also recently signed the most comprehensive water 

 quality control law in the Nation. The California Water Quality Im- 

 provement Act of 1969, authorizes, among other things, a fine of up 

 to $6,000 a day for failure to comply with the State's water discharge 

 standards. 



Prior to the creation of the San Francisco Bay Conservation and 

 Development Commission and its subsequent legislative enactment, 

 there was no coordinated regional control of dredge and fill except 

 for the permit-granting authority of the U.S. Army Corps of Engi- 

 neers concerning navigation. No State permit was required except for 

 very specialized reasons, such as, removal of minerals from State lands. 



Regional planning has been present, but not very effective since there 

 has been no regional agency given jurisdiction over the entire bay 

 prior to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Com- 

 mission. Other regional developments include : the Bay Area Transpor- 

 tation Study Commission, which completed a regional transportation 

 plan with recommendations for implementation; the Association of 

 Bay Area Government, which began in 1961 performing advisory re- 

 gional planning; and the Joint Committee on Bay Area Regional 

 Organization, a committee of the State legislature, after a 16-month 

 study, proposed a limited-function nine-county regional government to 

 encompass the State- designated water basin boundaries. 



Research and study to support improved management activities is 

 proceeding as is shown from the folloAving activities : 



(1) The State legislature, in 1965, authorized a comprehensive study 

 and development of a water quality management program for the bay 

 area. The report has been recently published. 



(2) The Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife is examining the 

 effects of dredging on bottom life in the bay. 



(3) The Geological Survey has authorized programs to collect geo- 

 logic and hydrologic data and to investigate the bad sediments. 



(4) The Federal Water Pollution Control Administration com- 

 pleted a study on the effects of the proposed San Joaquin master drain 

 on the bay in December 1966. 



(5) The San Francisco Bay-Delta water quality control program 

 financed partially with an FWPCA grant is involved in a comprehen- 

 sive water quality management study concerning the development of a 

 master plan for construction of a collection, treatment, reclamation, 

 and disposal system to be staged over the 50-year period, 1970 to 2020. 



(6) The Secretary of the Interior has established both field and 

 headquarters task forces to cooperate with the State of California and 

 to improve coordination of Interior's interests in the bay. 



(7) The Corps of Engineers has undertaken a coordinated compre- 

 hensive survey of the entire bay complex with other Federal agencies 

 concerning navigation, flood control, transportation, water supply, 

 land reclamation, recreation, national defense, and allied subjects. The 

 survey is scheduled for completion in 1972; it is operating a scale 

 hydraulic model of the bay at Sausalito and is extending the model to 

 include the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; and the Corps of Engi- 

 neers has proposed a multimillion dollar, multiagency study of the 

 development of San Francisco Bay as a port to handle supersized 

 vessels. 



