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CONSENT
Bill No: SB 1478
Author: Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee
Amended: 4/5/10
Vote: 21
SENATE NATURAL RES. & WATER COMMITTEE : 9-0, 4/13/10
AYES: Pavley, Cogdill, Hollingsworth, Huff, Kehoe,
Lowenthal, Padilla, Simitian, Wolk
SUBJECT : Water conservation: urban water management
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill grants urban wholesale water suppliers
a six-month extension to adopt urban water management plans
(UWMPs) that was granted to retail water suppliers. This
bill also corrects a reference to a federal executive order
on how the military should be treated in the water
conservation bill.
ANALYSIS : One of the bills in the water package passed
last November in the Seventh Extraordinary Session was SB 7
X7 (Steinberg). That bill, among other things, requires
the state to achieve a 20 percent reduction in urban per
capita water use by December 31, 2020. The bill provided
three specific methods for urban retail water suppliers to
meet the 20 percent reduction goal, and a fourth method to
be developed by the Department of Water Resources (DWR).
To allow urban retail water suppliers to use the
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to-be-developed DWR method, urban retail water suppliers
were granted a six month extension, to July 1, 2011, to
adopt their statutorily required UWMP.
The bill also required urban wholesale water suppliers to
include in their UWMP an assessment of their present and
proposed future measures, programs, and policies to help
achieve the water use reductions required by this bill.
However, the bill inadvertently neglected to grant
wholesale water suppliers the same six month extension to
adopt UWMPs that was granted to their retail customers.
This bill grants urban wholesale water suppliers a
six-month extension to adopt UWMPs that was granted to
retail water suppliers. This bill also corrects a
reference to a federal executive order on how the military
should be treated in the water conservation bill.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: No
Local: No
SUPPORT : (Verified 4/13/10)
Casitas Municipal Water District
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : According to the Casitas Municipal
Water District, "This bill would change the due date for
the Urban Water Management Plan to be submitted by
wholesale providers to July 1, 2011 instead of December 31,
2010. Given the many changes in the requirements of the
Urban Water Management Plan and the expected late response
from the California Department of Water Resources on the
guidelines for this plan, it would be prudent to extend the
deadline so that all water agencies are able to fully
comply in a timely manner to the additional requirements of
this plan."
CTW:mw 4/14/10 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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