BILL NUMBER: AB 2583	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Hall

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to add Section 13003 to the Water Code, relating to water
quality.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2583, as introduced, Hall. Water quality: treatment chemicals.
   Existing law declares that activities and factors that may affect
the quality of the waters of the state shall be regulated to attain
the highest water quality that is reasonable, considering all demands
being made and to be made on those waters and the total values
involved, beneficial and detrimental, economic and social, tangible
and intangible.
   This bill would require water agencies, as defined, and their
direct suppliers, in order to mitigate the potential catastrophic
harm involved in the unintended and intentional releases of hazardous
substances that are in transit, to utilize raw material chemical
products derived from Inherently Safer Technology or inherently safer
production measures where the products derived from safer measures
or technology are appropriate, given the disinfection methodology
used by the water agency, and commercially available without being
materially cost prohibitive to the water utilities or rate payers.
   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 13003 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   13003.  Water agencies, as defined in Section 12970, and their
direct suppliers shall, in order to mitigate the potential
catastrophic harm involved in the unintended and intentional releases
of hazardous substances as they are transported for use as raw
materials by the water agencies and their direct suppliers, utilize
raw material chemical products derived from Inherently Safer
Technology or inherently safer production measures where the products
derived from safer measures or technology are appropriate given the
disinfection methodology used by the water agency, and are
commercially available without being materially cost prohibitive to
the water utilities or rate payers.