Nearly five years after the original deadline, California has finally issued draft regulations to implement a 9-year-old law on design and operating standards for onsite wastewater treatment systems.After Assembly Bill 885 passed in 2000, state officials were given until 2004 to draw up implementing regulations, but they didn’t make it out of the state bureaucracy until late 2008. Hearings for public comment began last December and were to be completed over the winter, but were subsequently cut short.Along with the regulations, the California State Water Board has issued an Environmental Impact Report, which assesses the potential effect of the regulations
