BILL ANALYSIS
SB 1478
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SENATE THIRD READING
SB 1478 (Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee)
As Amended June 14, 2010
Majority vote
SENATE VOTE :33-0
WATER, PARKS & WILDLIFE 12-0
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|Ayes:|Huffman, Anderson, | | |
| |Arambula, | | |
| |Tom Berryhill, | | |
| |Blumenfield, Caballero, | | |
| |De la Torre, Fletcher, | | |
| |Gatto, Bonnie Lowenthal, | | |
| |Salas, Yamada | | |
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SUMMARY : Makes technical corrections to two provisions
governing water conservation. Specifically, this bill :
1)Grants an urban wholesale water supplier the same six-month
extension to adopt an urban water management plan (UWMP) that
was granted to urban retail water suppliers.
2)Updates a reference from former Presidential Executive Order
13423 to current Presidential Executive Order 13514, regarding
federal agency conservation targets.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Directs the state to achieve a 20% reduction in urban per
capita water use in California by December 31, 2020.
2)Requires an urban retail water supplier to develop an urban
water use target in its UWMP that will result in the 20%
reduction referenced above.
3)Directs an urban retail water supplier that supplies water to
a military installation to consider, in its UWMP, that
installation's conservation requirements pursuant to Federal
Executive Order 13423.
SB 1478
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FISCAL EFFECT : None
COMMENTS : SB 7 ((Steinberg), Chapter 4, Statutes of 2009-10
Seventh Extraordinary Session) requires, among other things,
that the state achieve a 20 percent reduction in urban per
capita water use by December 31, 2020. To effectuate this goal,
each urban retail water supplier must develop urban water use
targets and incorporate those in its UWMP. SB 7 X7 provided
three specific methods for urban retail water suppliers to
determine urban water use targets and a fourth method to be
developed by the Department of Water Resources (DWR) by December
31, 2010.
To allow urban retail water suppliers to use the to-be-developed
DWR method, SB 7 X7 granted those entities a six month
extension, to July 1, 2011, to adopt statutorily required UWMPs.
However, while SB 7 X7 imposed the same UWMP requirements on
urban wholesale water suppliers, it inadvertently neglected to
grant those entities the same six month extension to adopt UWMPs
that was granted to their retail customers. This bill corrects
that oversight.
SB 7 X7 also allows an urban retail water supplier that supplies
water to a United States Department of Defense military
installation to, in its UWMP, consider that military
installation's conservation requirements pursuant to Federal
Executive Order. On October 8, 2009, Executive Order 13423,
signed by President Bush, was superseded by Executive Order
13514, signed by President Obama. This bill corrects language
in SB 7 X7 to reference the latest Executive Order.
This bill has no known opposition.
Analysis Prepared by : Tina Cannon Leahy / W., P. & W. / (916)
319-2096
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