1. (a) All maintenance dredging projects that are completed within 10 years;
2. (b) Any new dredging of 200,000 cubic yards or less completed within 10 years;
3. (c) Sand mining projects where the sand is sold or re-used, where the project is completed within five years, and where no more than 250,000 cubic yards are dredged in any one year;
4. (d) New dredging projects to deepen existing navigation channels or basins that do not result in significant adverse environmental impacts or raise conflicts with the Commission's laws and policies, and where the dredged sediment is beneficially reused within the Commission's jurisdiction, or disposed of outside the Commission's Bay or certain waterways jurisdictions;

5. (e) disposal of dredged sediment that occurs only at a site listed in section 10713.5; and meets either of the following criteria:

   1. (1) the amount of sediment to be disposed of does not exceed, individually or cumulatively with other projects for the calendar year, the following volumes for the listed disposal sites:

      1. (A) at the Alcatraz Island site (SF-11): 4 million cubic yards annually with a monthly maximum of 400,000 cubic yards between October 1st of each year and April 30th of the following year and a monthly maximum of 300,000 cubic yards between May 1st and September 30th of each year;
      2. (B) at the San Pablo Bay site (SF-10): 500,000 cubic yards annually;
      3. (C) at the Carquinez Strait site (SF-9): 3 million cubic yards annually in a wet or above normal water flow year as those years are classified by the Department of Water Resources and 2 million cubic yards annually in all other year classifications, and in either case with a maximum of 1 million cubic yards in any one month; and
      4. (D) at the Suisun Bay Channel site (SF-16): 200,000 cubic yards annually for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Suisun Bay Channel and New York Slough channel maintenance dredging projects only; or
   2. (2) the disposal involves only the disposal of sediment dredged by a small dredger as defined in section 10727.
6. (f) disposal of less than 30,000 cubic yards of dredged sediment at any location other than that identified in section 10602(e)(1) in a manner and at a time approved by the Executive Director, after consultation with National Marine Fisheries Service, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife and agreement by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, San Francisco District, and by the Executive Officer of the Regional San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board, as involving no or small potential risk of an adverse environmental impact;
7. (g) disposal of any amount of dredged sediment in the ocean, or the beneficial reuse or disposal of any amount of sediment in the Suisun Marsh, a salt pond, a managed wetland, or a non-aquatic location.

The following dredging, beneficial reuse, and disposal projects constitute “minor repairs or improvements” that may be authorized administratively:

Note: Authority cited: Section 66632, Government Code; and Section 29201, Public Resources Code. Reference: Sections 66632 and 66663-66666, Government Code; and Sections 29501, 29505 and 29520, Public Resources Code.

History

1. Renumbering of section 10601 subsections (a)(1)-(3) to section 10602 with amendments and new subsections (c)(2)-(c)(3)(B) and (e) and Note filed 2-2-93; operative 3-4-93 (Register 93, No. 6).

2. Amendment of subsections (a) and (b), new subsections (c) and (d), subsection relettering, and amendment of newly designated subsections (e)(2) and (f) filed 1-29-98; operative 2-28-98 (Register 98, No. 5).

3. Amendment of section and Note filed 6-16-2008; operative 7-16-2008 (Register 2008, No. 25).

4. Amendment of section heading, section and Note filed 5-4-2026; operative 7-1-2026 (Register 2026, No. 19).