BILL NUMBER: AB 901	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 7, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 4, 2001
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 12, 2001
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 16, 2001

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Daucher
   (Coauthors:  Assembly Members Calderon, Robert Pacheco, and
Pavley)
   (Coauthor:  Senator Bowen)

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2001

   An act to amend Sections 10610.2 and 10631 of, and to add Section
10634 to, the Water Code, relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 901, as amended, Daucher.  Water supply planning.
   (1) The Urban Water Management Planning Act requires urban water
suppliers to prepare and adopt urban water management plans for
submission to the Department of Water Resources.  The act requires
those plans to include specified information.  The act makes findings
and declarations relating to urban water management planning.
   This bill would require  the plans   a plan
 to include information, to the extent practicable, relating to
the quality of existing sources of water available to an urban water
supplier over given time periods, and the manner in which water
quality affects water management strategies and supply reliability.
 The bill would require a plan to describe plans to supplement a
awater source that may not be available at a consistent level of use,
to the extent practicable.   The bill would make additional
findings and declarations relating to water quality.
   (2) This bill would incorporate additional changes in Section
10631 of the Water Code proposed by SB 610, to be operative only if
this bill and SB 610 are enacted and become effective on or before
January 1, 2002, each bill amends Section 10631 of the Water Code,
and this bill is enacted last.
   Vote:  majority.  Appropriation:  no.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 10610.2 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   10610.2.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

   (a) The waters of the state are a limited and renewable resource
subject to ever-increasing demands.
   (b) The conservation and efficient use of urban water supplies are
of statewide concern; however, the planning for that use and the
implementation of those plans can best be accomplished at the local
level.
   (c) A long-term, reliable supply of water is essential to protect
the productivity of California's businesses and economic climate.
   (d) As part of its long-range planning activities, every urban
water supplier should make every effort to ensure the appropriate
level of reliability in its water service sufficient to meet the
needs of its various categories of customers during normal, dry, and
multiple dry water years.
   (e) Public health issues have been raised over a number of
contaminants that have been identified in certain local and imported
water supplies.
   (f) Implementing effective water management strategies, including
groundwater storage projects and recycled water projects, may require
specific water quality and salinity targets for meeting groundwater
basins water quality objectives and promoting beneficial use of
recycled water.
   (g) Water quality regulations are becoming an increasingly
important factor in water agencies' selection of raw water sources,
treatment alternatives, and modifications to existing treatment
facilities.
   (h) Changes in drinking water quality standards may also impact
the usefulness of water supplies and may ultimately impact supply
reliability.
   (i) The quality of source supplies can have a significant impact
on water management strategies and supply reliability.
   (2) This part is intended to provide assistance to water agencies
in carrying out their long-term resource planning responsibilities to
ensure adequate water supplies to meet existing and future demands
for water.
  SEC. 2.  Section 10631 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   10631.  A plan shall be adopted in accordance with this chapter
and shall do all of the following:
   (a) Describe the service area of the supplier, including current
and projected population, climate, and other demographic factors
affecting the supplier's water management planning.  The projected
population estimates shall be based upon data from the state,
regional, or local service agency population projections within the
service area of the urban water supplier and shall be in five-year
increments to 20 years or as far as data is available.
   (b) Identify and quantify, to the extent practicable, the existing
and planned sources of water available to the supplier over the same
five-year increments described in subdivision (a).
   (c) Describe the reliability of the water supply and vulnerability
to seasonal or climatic shortage, to the extent practicable, and
provide data for each of the following:
   (1) An average water year.
   (2) A single dry water year.
   (3) Multiple dry water years.
   For any water source that may not be available at a consistent
level of use, given specific legal, environmental, water quality, or
climatic factors, describe plans to supplement or replace that source
with alternative sources or water demand management measures, to the
extent practicable.
   (d) Describe the opportunities for exchanges or transfers of water
on a short-term or long-term basis.
   (e) (1) Quantify, to the extent records are available, past and
current water use, over the same five-year increments described in
subdivision (a), and projected water use, identifying the uses among
water use sectors including, but not necessarily limited to, all of
the following uses:
   (A) Single-family residential.
   (B) Multifamily.
   (C) Commercial.
   (D) Industrial.
   (E) Institutional and governmental.
   (F) Landscape.
   (G) Sales to other agencies.
   (H) Saline water intrusion barriers, groundwater recharge, or
conjunctive use, or any combination thereof.
   (I) Agricultural.
   (2) The water use projections shall be in the same five-year
increments described in subdivision (a).
   (f) Provide a description of the supplier's water demand
management measures.  This description shall include all of the
following:
   (1) A description of each water demand management measure that is
currently being implemented, or scheduled for implementation,
including the steps necessary to implement any proposed measures,
including, but not limited to, all of the following:
   (A) Water survey programs for single-family residential and
multifamily residential customers.
   (B) Residential plumbing retrofit.
   (C) System water audits, leak detection, and repair.
   (D) Metering with commodity rates for all new connections and
retrofit of existing connections.
   (E) Large landscape conservation programs and incentives.
   (F) High-efficiency washing machine rebate programs.
   (G) Public information programs.
   (H) School education programs.
   (I) Conservation programs for commercial, industrial, and
institutional accounts.
   (J) Wholesale agency programs.
   (K) Conservation pricing.
   (L) Water conservation coordinator.
   (M) Water waste prohibition.
   (N) Residential ultra-low-flush toilet replacement programs.
   (2) A schedule of implementation for all water demand management
measures proposed or described in the plan.
   (3) A description of the methods, if any, that the supplier will
use to evaluate the effectiveness of water demand management measures
implemented or described under the plan.
   (4) An estimate, if available, of existing conservation savings on
water use within the supplier's service area, and the effect of the
savings on the supplier's ability to further reduce demand.
   (g) An evaluation of each water demand management measure listed
in paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) that is not currently being
implemented or scheduled for implementation.  In the course of the
evaluation, first consideration shall be given to water demand
management measures, or combination of measures,  that offer lower
incremental costs than expanded or additional water supplies.  This
evaluation shall do all of the following:
   (1) Take into account economic and noneconomic factors, including
environmental, social, health, customer impact, and technological
factors.
   (2) Include a cost-benefit analysis, identifying total benefits
and total costs.
   (3) Include a description of funding available to implement any
planned water supply project that would provide water at a higher
unit cost.
   (4) Include a description of the water supplier's legal authority
to implement the measure and efforts to work with other relevant
agencies to ensure the implementation of the measure and to share the
cost of implementation.
   (h) Urban water suppliers that are members of the California Urban
Water Conservation Council and submit annual reports to that council
in accordance with the "Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Urban
Water Conservation in California," dated September 1991, may submit
the annual reports identifying water demand management measures
currently being implemented, or scheduled for implementation, to
satisfy the requirements of subdivisions (f) and (g).
  SEC. 2.5.  Section 10631 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   10631.  A plan shall be adopted in accordance with this chapter
and shall do all of the following:
   (a) Describe the service area of the supplier, including current
and projected population, climate, and other demographic factors
affecting the supplier's water management planning.  The projected
population estimates shall be based upon data from the state,
regional, or local service agency population projections within the
service area of the urban water supplier and shall be in five-year
increments to 20 years or as far as data is available.
   (b) Identify and quantify, to the extent practicable, the existing
and planned sources of water available to the supplier over the same
five-year increments described in subdivision (a).  If groundwater
is identified as an existing  and   or 
planned source of water available to the supplier, all of the
following information shall be included in the plan:
   (1) A copy of any groundwater management plan adopted by the urban
water supplier, including plans adopted pursuant to Part 2.75
(commencing with Section 10750), or any other specific authorization
for groundwater management.
   (2) A description of any groundwater basin or basins from which
the urban water supplier pumps groundwater.  For those basins for
which a court or the board has adjudicated the rights to pump
groundwater, a copy of the order or decree adopted by the court or
the board and a description of the amount of groundwater the urban
water supplier has the legal right to pump under the order or decree.
  For basins that have not been adjudicated, information as to
whether the department has identified the basin or basins as
overdrafted or has projected that the basin will become overdrafted
if present management conditions continue, in the most current
official departmental bulletin that characterizes the condition of
the groundwater basin, and a detailed description of the efforts
being undertaken by the urban water supplier to eliminate the
long-term overdraft condition.
   (3) A detailed description and analysis of the  amount and
location   location, amount, and sufficiency  of
groundwater pumped by the urban water supplier for the past five
years.  The description and analysis shall be based on information
that is reasonably available, including, but not limited to, historic
use records.
   (4) A detailed description and analysis of the amount and location
of groundwater that is projected to be pumped by the urban water
supplier.  The description and analysis shall be based on information
that is reasonably available, including, but not limited to,
historic use records.
   (c) Describe the reliability of the water supply and vulnerability
to seasonal or climatic shortage, to the extent practicable, and
provide data for each of the following:
   (1) An average water year.
   (2) A single dry water year.
   (3) Multiple dry water years.
   For any water source that may not be available at a consistent
level of use, given specific legal, environmental, water quality, or
climatic factors, describe plans to supplement or replace that source
with alternative sources or water demand management measures, to the
extent practicable.
   (d) Describe the opportunities for exchanges or transfers of water
on a short-term or long-term basis.
   (e) (1) Quantify, to the extent records are available, past and
current water use, over the same five-year increments described in
subdivision (a), and projected water use, identifying the uses among
water use sectors including, but not necessarily limited to, all of
the following uses:
   (A) Single-family residential.
   (B) Multifamily.
   (C) Commercial.
   (D) Industrial.
   (E) Institutional and governmental.
   (F) Landscape.
   (G) Sales to other agencies.
   (H) Saline water intrusion barriers, groundwater recharge, or
conjunctive use, or any combination thereof.
   (I) Agricultural.
   (2) The water use projections shall be in the same five-year
increments described in subdivision (a).
   (f) Provide a description of the supplier's water demand
management measures.  This description shall include all of the
following:
   (1) A description of each water demand management measure that is
currently being implemented, or scheduled for implementation,
including the steps necessary to implement any proposed measures,
including, but not limited to, all of the following:
   (A) Water survey programs for single-family residential and
multifamily residential customers.
   (B) Residential plumbing retrofit.
   (C) System water audits, leak detection, and repair.
   (D) Metering with commodity rates for all new connections and
retrofit of existing connections.
   (E) Large landscape conservation programs and incentives.
   (F) High-efficiency washing machine rebate programs.
   (G) Public information programs.
   (H) School education programs.
   (I) Conservation programs for commercial, industrial, and
institutional accounts.
   (J) Wholesale agency programs.
   (K) Conservation pricing.
   (L) Water conservation coordinator.
   (M) Water waste prohibition.
   (N) Residential ultra-low-flush toilet replacement programs.
   (2) A schedule of implementation for all water demand management
measures proposed or described in the plan.
   (3) A description of the methods, if any, that the supplier will
use to evaluate the effectiveness of water demand management measures
implemented or described under the plan.
   (4) An estimate, if available, of existing conservation savings on
water use within the supplier's service area, and the effect of the
savings on the supplier's ability to further reduce demand.
   (g) An evaluation of each water demand management measure listed
in paragraph (1) of subdivision (f) that is not currently being
implemented or scheduled for implementation.  In the course of the
evaluation, first consideration shall be given to water demand
management measures, or combination of measures, that offer lower
incremental costs than expanded or additional water supplies.  This
evaluation shall do all of the following:
   (1) Take into account economic and noneconomic factors, including
environmental, social, health, customer impact, and technological
factors.
   (2) Include a cost-benefit analysis, identifying total benefits
and total costs.
   (3) Include a description of funding available to implement any
planned water supply project that would provide water at a higher
unit cost.
   (4) Include a description of the water supplier's legal authority
to implement the measure and efforts to work with other relevant
agencies to ensure the implementation of the measure and to share the
cost of implementation.
   (h)  Include a description of all water supply projects and
water supply programs that may be undertaken by the urban water
supplier to meet the total projected water use as established
pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 10635.  The urban water
supplier shall include a detailed description of expected future
projects and programs, other than the demand management programs
identified pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (f), that the
urban water supplier may implement to increase the amount of the
water supply available to the urban water supplier in average,
single-dry, and multiple-dry water years.  The description shall
identify specific projects and include a description of the increase
in water supply that is expected to be available from each project.
The description shall include an estimate with regard to the
implementation timeline for each project or program.
   (i)  Urban water suppliers that are members of the California
Urban Water Conservation Council and submit annual reports to that
council in accordance with the "Memorandum of Understanding Regarding
Urban Water Conservation in California," dated September 1991, may
submit the annual reports identifying water demand management
measures currently being implemented, or scheduled for
implementation, to satisfy the requirements of subdivisions (f) and
(g).
  SEC. 3.  Section 10634 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   10634.  The plan shall include information, to the extent
practicable, relating to the quality of existing sources of water
available to the supplier over the same five-year increments as
described in subdivision (a) of Section 10631, and the manner in
which water quality affects water management strategies and supply
reliability.
  SEC. 4.  Section 2.5 of this bill incorporates amendments to
Section 10631 of the Water Code proposed by both this bill and SB
610.  It shall only become operative if (1) both bills are enacted
and become effective on or before January 1, 2002, (2) each bill
amends Section 10631 of the Water Code, and (3) this bill is enacted
after SB 610, in which case Section 2 of this bill shall not become
operative.