BILL NUMBER: AB 1002	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Butler

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 10004.5 of the Water Code, relating to
water resources.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1002, as introduced, Butler. California Water Plan: stormwater
recovery.
   Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update
every 5 years the plan for the orderly and coordinated control,
protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources
of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. Existing
law prescribes the contents of the California Water Plan, and
requires the department to include a discussion of various strategies
in the plan, including strategies relating to the development of new
water storage facilities, water conservation, water recycling,
desalination, conjunctive use, and water transfers that may be
pursued in order to meet the future needs of the state.
   This bill would additionally require the department to include in
the plan a discussion of strategies relating to stormwater recovery.

   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 10004.5 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   10004.5.   (a)    As part of the requirement
 of the department  to update The California Water
Plan pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 10004, the department
shall include in the plan a discussion of various strategies,
including, but not limited to,  those  
strategies  relating to the development of new water storage
facilities, water conservation, water recycling, desalination, 
stormwater recovery,  conjunctive use, and water transfers that
may be pursued in order to meet the future water needs of the state.
The department shall also include  in the plan  a discussion
of the potential for alternative water pricing policies to change
current and projected uses.  The 
    (b)     The  department shall include
in the plan a discussion of the potential advantages and
disadvantages of each strategy and an identification of all federal
and state permits, approvals, or entitlements that are anticipated to
be required in order to implement the various components of the
strategy.