BILL NUMBER: AB 2680	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Nazarian

                        FEBRUARY 21, 2014

   An act to amend Section 13000 of the Water Code, relating to water
quality.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2680, as introduced, Nazarian. Water quality.
   The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act establishes a
statewide program for the control of the quality of all the waters in
the state and makes certain legislative findings and declarations.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to the
legislative findings and declarations.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 13000 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   13000.  The Legislature finds and declares  that the
  all of the following: 
    (a)     The  people of the state have
a primary interest in the conservation, control, and utilization of
the water resources of the state, and that the quality of 
all  the waters of the state shall be protected for use and
enjoyment by the people of the state. 
   The Legislature further finds and declares that activities

    (b)     Activities  and factors which
may affect the quality of the waters of the state shall be regulated
to attain the highest water quality  which  
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. 
   The Legislature further finds and declares that the 
    (c)     The  health, safety  ,
 and welfare of the people of the state requires that there be a
statewide program for the control of the quality of all the waters
of the state; that the state must be prepared to exercise its full
power and jurisdiction to protect the quality of waters in the state
from degradation originating inside or outside the boundaries of the
state; that the waters of the state are increasingly influenced by
interbasin water development projects and other statewide
considerations; that factors of precipitation, topography,
population, recreation, agriculture, industry and economic
development vary from region to region within the state; and that the
statewide program for water quality control can be most effectively
administered regionally, within a framework of statewide coordination
and policy.