California Ballast Water Management and Control Program - Update

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California Ballast Water Management and Control
Program - Update
Maurya B. Falkner California State Lands
Commission Marine Facilities Division
WRP Annual Meeting - September 2003
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Ballast Water Management for Control of
Nonindigenous Species AB 703

• Sunsets in January 2004

• Established
• Mandatory, Statewide, Multi-Agency
• Ballast Water Management and Control Program
• Emphasizing Research and Development
• Applies to all vessels that enter CA waters
  after
• operating outside the West Coast EEZ.

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Agency Responsibilities

• Board Of Equalization
• Collect per Vessel Voyage Fee
• State Water Resources Control Board
• Evaluate Alternatives to Mid-Ocean Exchange
• Prepare Report to Legislature
• California Department of Fish Game
• Conduct Baseline Biological Inventory
• Prepare Report to Legislature
• California State Lands Commission
• Establish per Vessel Voyage Fee
• Implement an Inspection and Monitoring Program
• Prepare Report to Legislature

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• AB 703 Program Summary by Agency
• BOE
• Collection of per voyage Fee
• Implemented self-reporting program
• gt 95 Fee submission
• SWRCB
• No treatment options currently approved
• Recommendations
• Continue BWE
• Identify alternative technologies
• Consider shoreside treatment
• Support Demonstration Projects

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• AB 703 Program Summary - Cont.
• CDFG-OSPR
• Identified 747 organisms
• Primarily from NW Atlantic, NW Pacific
• and NE Atlantic
• Recommendations
• Ongoing surveys for NAS
• Identify introduction pathways
• Refine Taxonomy
• http//www.dfg.ca.gov/ospr/organizational/scientif
  ic/exotic/exotic20report.htm

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• AB 703 Program Summary - Cont.
• CSLC
• Ballast Water Reporting Form
• 92 Submitted Required BW Form
• 96 Complied with mandatory management
  requirements
• Continued Problems
• Delinquent forms (10)
• Late forms (10)
• Inaccurate or incomplete forms (35)
• Violations of management requirements
  (4)
• Vessel Inspections
• 3884 Vessel inspections completed
• 532 Violations (13 Operational)

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• CSLC - Summary - Cont.
• Demonstration Project
• Grant from USFWS and Port of Oakland
• Two vessels (container and passenger)
• Preliminary results look promising
• Fee establishment
• Technical Advisory Group (TAG)
• gt 95 Fee submission
• Advanced Approval Program
• Working with USCG
• Three applications submitted (one active).

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During the 2003 California Legislative
Session Assemblyman Nation introduced AB 433 -
Marine Invasive Species Act Sponsored by The
Ocean Conservancy The bill continues and
enhances the ballast water management
program that began in 2002. The purpose of the
bill is to move the state expeditiously
toward the elimination of the discharge of
nonindigenous species into the waters of the
state or into waters that may impact the waters
of the state, based on the best available
technology economically achievable
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AB 433 - The Marine Invasive Species Act

• Many provisions of current law (AB 703) remain
• Sunset provision January 1, 2010
• Fee based
• Safety Exemption
• Reporting and record keeping
• Continued biological surveys
• Ecological studies
• Coordination with Technical Advisory Group

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• New for AB 433
• Removed most exemptions
• Reporting required for all port calls
• Expanded to include coastal traffic
• Regulations developed by January 1, 2005
• Experimental Technology Advanced Approval Program
• Regulations developed by July 1, 2005
• Report recommending potential discharge standards
• Report due January 31, 2006
• Report evaluating other possible ship-mediated
  vectors
• Report due March 1, 2006
• Biennial reports to Legislature
• Beginning January 2005

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• Whats New - Cont.
• Formalized Coordination/Partnership with Federal
  Agencies
• Experimental Technology Advanced Approval
• Program
• Recommendations on discharge standards
• Coordination/consultation on research
• Data sharing

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AB 433 Program Costs and Fee Program
(estimated) Fee amount will depend on Number
of QVs, compliance, and surplus dollars in
existing Fund Agency Year 1
Costs CSLC-MFD 1.41 million CDFG-OSPR 1.13
million SWRCB 0.20 million BOE 0.40
million Includes funds to support research,
biological surveys, fee collection, regulation
development, overall program implementation,
etc. Fee to be assessed at first port or place
of call in California Estimated cost 400 to
600/voyage
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For additional information contact Maurya B.
Falkner 916-574-2568 falknem_at_slc.ca.gov http
//www.slc.ca.gov