BILL NUMBER: AB 2056	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chesbro

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to amend Section 116380 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to drinking water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2056, as introduced, Chesbro. Drinking water: point-of-entry
and point-of-use treatments.
   Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, provides for
the operation of public water systems, and requires the State
Department of Public Health to adopt regulations for these purposes,
as prescribed. Existing law requires the department to adopt
regulations allowing public water systems to use point-of-entry and
point-of-use treatment instead of centralized treatment in specified
situations, including if the use of centralized treatment is not
economically feasible and if the water system has submitted a
preapplication with the department for funding to correct violations
for which the point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment is provided.
   This bill would not require a water system to demonstrate that
centralized treatment is economically infeasible and would not
require the water system to submit a preapplication with the
department for funding before the water system may use a
point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment.
   Existing law requires the department to adopt emergency
regulations governing the permitted use of point-of-entry and
point-of-use treatment by public water systems in lieu of centralized
treatment, as specified, and would require these emergency
regulations to remain in effect until the earlier of January 1, 2014,
or the effective date of the required nonemergency regulations.
   This bill would require the emergency regulations to remain in
effect until the earlier of January 1, 2019, or the effective date of
the required nonemergency regulations.
   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 116380 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   116380.  (a) In addition to the requirements set forth in Section
116375, the regulations adopted by the department pursuant to Section
116375 shall include requirements governing the use of
point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment by public water systems in
lieu of centralized treatment  where it can be demonstrated
that centralized treatment is not immediately economically feasible
 , limited to the following:
   (1) Water systems with less than 200 service connections.
   (2) Usage allowed under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and
its implementing regulations and guidance. 
   (3) Water systems that have submitted preapplications with the
State Department of Public Health for funding to correct the
violations for which the point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment is
provided. 
   (b) The department shall adopt emergency regulations governing the
permitted use of point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment by public
water systems in lieu of centralized treatment.
   (1) The emergency regulations shall comply with Section 116552,
and shall comply with all of the requirements set forth in
subdivision (a) applicable to nonemergency regulations, but shall not
be subject to the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative
Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1
of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code). The emergency
regulations shall take effect when filed with the Secretary of State,
and shall be published in the California Code of Regulations.
   (2) The emergency regulations adopted pursuant to this subdivision
shall remain in effect until the earlier of January 1,  2014
  2019  , or the effective date of regulations
adopted pursuant to subdivision (a).