BILL NUMBER: AB 1797	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bill Berryhill

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2010

   An act to add Section 148 to the Water Code, relating to the State
Water Resources Development System.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1797, as introduced, Bill Berryhill. State Water Resources
Development System: Delta Corridors Plan.
   Under existing law, the Department of Water Resources operates the
State Water Resources Development System that includes dams,
reservoirs, and other infrastructure.
   This bill would require the department to undertake an expedited
evaluation and feasibility study with regard to the implementation of
a specified Delta Corridors Plan as part of the State Water
Resources Development System. The department would be required to
prepare and submit to the Legislature, on or before January 1, 2012,
a report that includes its feasibility findings. If the department
determines the implementation of the plan is feasible, the department
would be required to include recommendations with regard to specific
facilities to be constructed, and to identify potential funding
sources, for the purposes of implementing the plan.
   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 148 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   148.  (a) The department shall undertake an expedited evaluation
and feasibility study with regard to the implementation of a
through-Delta conveyance plan referred to as the Delta Corridors
Plan, as part of the State Water Resources Development System. For
the purposes of this section, the "Delta Corridors Plan" means the
plan described in the document entitled "Proposal to Reconnect the
San Joaquin River to the Estuary," dated March 23, 2007.
   (b) On or before January 1, 2012, the department shall prepare and
submit to the Legislature a report that includes its findings
pursuant to subdivision (a). If the department determines that the
implementation of the plan described in subdivision (a) is feasible,
the department shall include in the report recommendations with
regard to specific facilities to be constructed, and shall identify
potential funding sources, for the purposes of implementing the plan.

  SEC. 2.  This act shall be known, and may be cited, as the Clean
Water Pathways Act.