BILL NUMBER: AB 1334	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Blakeslee

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 13475 of the Water Code, relating to water
quality.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1334, as introduced, Blakeslee. State Water Pollution Control
Revolving Fund.
   Existing law continuously appropriates state and federal funds in
the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund to the State Water
Resources Control Board for loans and other financial assistance for
the construction of publicly owned treatment works by a municipality,
the implementation of a management program, the development and
implementation of a conservation and management plan, and other
related purposes in accordance with the federal Clean Water Act and
the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act.
   This bill would make technical nonsubstantive changes to findings
and declarations set forth in the state act that relate to the
establishment of the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 13475 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   13475.  (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares that
 since   because  the federal Clean Water
Act (33 U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq.) provides for establishment of a
perpetual water pollution control revolving loan fund,  which
  that  will be partially capitalized by federal
contributions, it is in the interest of people of the state, in order
to ensure full participation by the state under the federal Clean
Water Act, to enact this chapter to authorize the state to establish
and implement a  state/federal   state-federal
 water pollution control revolving fund in accordance with
federal provisions, requirements, and limitations.
   (b) The primary purpose of this chapter is to enact  a
statute   statutes  consistent with the provisions
and requirements of the federal Clean Water Act, as those provisions,
requirements, and limitations relate to  the 
establishment, management, and operation of a  state/federal
  state-federal  water pollution control revolving
fund. It is the intent of the Legislature that the terms of this
chapter shall be liberally construed to achieve this purpose.