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If the Governor and Legislature are still taking ideas for which parts of state government to lop off, I have one! Can the Regional Water Quality Control Board. (You thought I was going to say cut former Assemblywoman Nicole Parra and her do-nothing-$128,000-a-year salary, didn’t you? Come on now, you know it.) OK, maybe the board shouldn’t be eliminated all together, but I think it’s ripe for some drastic changes.  Just looking at the section of the board that affects us most directly, Region 5, here are the stats: It stretches from Modoc County in Northern California to the valley portion of Kern County. It has three branches, in Redding, Sacramento and Fresno, employs about 260 people with a budget of $38 million a year and has a wide range of duties including inspecting everything from corner gas stations to major waste water treatment plants as well as jumping on major leaks and spills. That last part is where I think we can do much better given...
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