BILL NUMBER: AB 140	CHAPTERED  07/06/07

	CHAPTER  29
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  JULY 6, 2007
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  JULY 6, 2007
	PASSED THE SENATE  JUNE 28, 2007
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  APRIL 23, 2007
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 12, 2007

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Garcia

                        JANUARY 16, 2007

   An act to amend Section 15.1 of Chapter 1069 of the Statutes of
1961, relating to the Desert Water Agency.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 140, Garcia. Desert Water Agency.
   Existing law authorizes the Desert Water Agency to construct,
operate, and maintain works to develop hydroelectric energy for use
by the agency to construct, operate, and maintain its projects for
the control, conservation, diversion, and transmission of water.
Existing law authorizes the agency to enter into contracts for the
sale of that energy for a term not to exceed 50 years.
   This bill would instead authorize the Desert Water Agency to
construct, operate, and maintain facilities for the generation of
electricity that are hydroelectric or specified eligible renewable
energy resources for the control, conservation, diversion, and
transmission of water, as well as for the construction, treatment,
and disposal of sewage. The agency would be authorized to enter into
contracts for the sale of electricity generated by the agency for a
term not to exceed that 50-year period.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 15.1 of the Desert Water Agency Law (Chapter
1069 of the Statutes of 1961) is amended to read:
  SEC. 15.1.  The agency shall have the power to construct, operate,
and maintain facilities for the generation of electricity that are
hydroelectric or eligible renewable energy resources as defined in
Section 399.12 of the Public Utilities Code, for use by the agency in
the operation of its works or as a means of assisting in financing
the construction, operation, and maintenance of its projects for the
control, conservation, diversion, and transmission of water, or for
the construction, treatment, and disposal of sewage, and to enter
into contracts for the sale of electricity generated by the agency
for a term not to exceed 50 years. The electricity may be marketed
only at wholesale to any public agency or private entity, or both, or
the federal or state government. For the purposes of this section,
"disposal of sewage" includes the sale or resale of treated effluent
for any purposes.