{"content":[{"text":"What is the purpose for establishing an Offsets policy?","bbox":{"left":0.106216,"top":0.085864,"width":0.443713,"height":0.015151999999999999}},{"text":"1)","bbox":{"left":0.106216,"top":0.12247,"width":0.015887,"height":0.015151999999999999}},{"text":"Offsets provide a mechanism, other than approving an exception, for permitting non- \n compliant discharges in an area that lacks assimilative capacity while continuing to make \n progress toward attainment of water quality standards in the basin or management zone.","bbox":{"left":0.165039,"top":0.12247,"width":0.7149110000000001,"height":0.05240900000000001}},{"text":"2)","bbox":{"left":0.106216,"top":0.196333,"width":0.015887,"height":0.015151999999999999}},{"text":"Offsets provide a regulatory alternative, other than prohibiting the discharge, when it is \n infeasible, impracticable or unreasonable to comply with WDRs directly.","bbox":{"left":0.165039,"top":0.196333,"width":0.6979299999999999,"height":0.03409199999999998}},{"text":"3)","bbox":{"left":0.106216,"top":0.251894,"width":0.015749,"height":0.015151999999999999}},{"text":"Even where assimilative capacity is available, offsets provide another mechanism for \n permitting discharges with pollutant concentrations greater than the objective or higher \n than the current receiving water quality without necessarily causing degradation in that \n receiving water.","bbox":{"left":0.165039,"top":0.251894,"width":0.703614,"height":0.07071299999999997}},{"text":"4)","bbox":{"left":0.106216,"top":0.344697,"width":0.015749,"height":0.015151999999999999}},{"text":"Offsets provide a mechanism to retarget the resources required to achieve compliance in \n order to produce greater public benefits (better net water quality, lower cost, less risk, \n faster, etc.).","bbox":{"left":0.165039,"top":0.344697,"width":0.7102040000000001,"height":0.05177300000000001}},{"text":"5)","bbox":{"left":0.106216,"top":0.418561,"width":0.015887,"height":0.015151999999999999}},{"text":"Offsets provide a mechanism whereby diverse dischargers within the same management \n zone can pool available resources to implement Alternative Compliance Programs, in \n phases, on a risk-priority basis. And, the option to do so creates a strong incentive to \n establish such management zones.","bbox":{"left":0.165039,"top":0.418561,"width":0.707535,"height":0.070712}},{"text":"6)","bbox":{"left":0.106216,"top":0.510727,"width":0.015887,"height":0.015152000000000054}},{"text":"Offsets provide a mechanism to develop and fund large-scale, long-term regional water \n quality improvement projects such as SSALTS by recognizing participation in such efforts as \n partial credit toward compliance.","bbox":{"left":0.165039,"top":0.510727,"width":0.7233419999999999,"height":0.05241000000000007}},{"text":"7)","bbox":{"left":0.106216,"top":0.585227,"width":0.015887,"height":0.015152000000000054}},{"text":"Offsets create a market-based incentive to establish Mitigation Banks designed to \n implement water quality improvement projects by selling certified compliance credits. This \n is particularly useful for pooling the resources of many relatively small dischargers into a \n critical mass of funding to support projects that would normally be beyond their individual \n means.","bbox":{"left":0.165039,"top":0.585227,"width":0.7290670000000001,"height":0.08901599999999998}},{"text":"8)","bbox":{"left":0.106216,"top":0.695712,"width":0.015887,"height":0.015152000000000054}},{"text":"Offsets encourage creative solutions to complex problems by measuring success at the true \n endpoint: net effect of water quality to end users. This outcome-oriented approach is \n consistent with the original goals of traditional water quality standards-based permit \n requirements.","bbox":{"left":0.165039,"top":0.695712,"width":0.7275659999999999,"height":0.07069800000000004}},{"text":"9)","bbox":{"left":0.106216,"top":0.788515,"width":0.015887,"height":0.015152000000000054}},{"text":"The current Basin Plans do not authorize the Regional Board to consider offsets when \n evaluating compliance. Amending the Basin Plan to grant such authority would not \n automatically apply it in any instance. The Regional Board must take separate action, \n through the normal public notice and hearing process, to approve any proposed offset.","bbox":{"left":0.165039,"top":0.788515,"width":0.6928529999999999,"height":0.07069800000000004}},{"text":"11/19/2015","bbox":{"left":0.117647,"top":0.939394,"width":0.094363,"height":0.015152000000000054}},{"text":"DRAFT: For Discussion Purposes Only","bbox":{"left":0.35049,"top":0.939394,"width":0.298908,"height":0.015152000000000054}},{"text":"Pg. 2 of 7","bbox":{"left":0.808824,"top":0.939394,"width":0.07283899999999999,"height":0.015152000000000054}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}