BILL NUMBER: AB 1834	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Solorio

                        FEBRUARY 12, 2010

   An act to add Section 10540.1 to the Water Code, relating to
stormwater.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1834, as introduced, Solorio. Regional water management:
stormwater.
   The Integrated Regional Water Management Planning Act of 2002
authorizes a regional water management group to prepare a regional
plan for the implementation or operation of specified qualified
projects or programs relating to water supply, water quality, flood
protection, or related matters. A regional water management group is
authorized to coordinate its planning activities to address or
incorporate specified activities, including, among others, stormwater
resource planning into its plan.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation that would encourage California water agencies that
develop integrated regional water management plans retain as much
stormwater runoff as reasonably possible to fulfill the water supply
needs of their communities and reduce downstream water quality
problems and that would require the costs of stormwater retention
projects be borne equitably by all those who benefit from those
projects.
   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 10540.1 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   10540.1.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
that would encourage California water agencies that develop
integrated regional water management plans to retain as much
stormwater runoff as reasonably possible to fulfill the water supply
needs of their communities and reduce downstream water quality
problems. It also is the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to require that the costs of stormwater retention
projects be borne equitably by all those who benefit from those
projects.