Each repair or maintenance project permit incorporated in the consolidated permit shall have the legal status and the regulatory effect that is specified in the statute and regulations under which the repair or maintenance project permit would be separately issued and shall be administered and enforced by the public agency that would have separately issued it. Nothing in this chapter shall limit the authority of an agency to enforce existing permits or permit conditions.

(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 776, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1997.)