Section 286. Stat

880), as amended.
    (b) After public notice and an opportunity to comment, the board shall
  promulgate such regulations as  may  be  necessary  to  implement,  with
  respect  to  major  steam  electric  generating  facilities,  the permit
  program  of  the  national  pollutant   discharge   elimination   system
  established  pursuant  to  section four hundred two of the Federal Water
  Pollution Control Act amendments of nineteen hundred  seventy-two.  Such
  regulations  shall  be  consistent  with  any state program requirements
  established by the United States  environmental  protection  agency  for
  state  participation  in  the  national  pollutant discharge elimination
  system  permit  program  and  shall   include   procedures   for   early
  consideration  and  such  prompt  determination as is feasible of issues
  arising under such permit program.
    * NB Expired January 1, 1989
    * NB Operative with regard to applications filed on or before December
           31, 1988
    * NB There are 2 § 142's