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Bill No: SB 429
Author: Hernandez (D), et al.
Amended: 6/6/13
Vote: 21
SENATE ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY COMMITTEE : 9-0, 4/3/13
AYES: Hill, Gaines, Calderon, Corbett, Fuller, Hancock,
Jackson, Leno, Pavley
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : Senate Rule 28.8
SENATE FLOOR : 36-0, 4/18/13
AYES: Anderson, Beall, Berryhill, Block, Calderon, Cannella,
Corbett, Correa, De León, DeSaulnier, Emmerson, Evans, Fuller,
Gaines, Galgiani, Hancock, Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Huff,
Jackson, Knight, Lara, Leno, Lieu, Liu, Monning, Nielsen,
Price, Roth, Steinberg, Walters, Wolk, Wright, Wyland, Yee
NO VOTE RECORDED: Padilla, Pavley, Vacancy, Vacancy
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-1, 8/19/13 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT : San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority Act
SOURCE : San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority
DIGEST : This bill extends the sunset date of the San Gabriel
Basin Water Quality Authority (SGBWQA) from July 1, 2017 to July
1, 2030.
Assembly Amendments add a coauthor and a make technical change.
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ANALYSIS : Existing law provides that the SGBWQA sunsets July
1, 2017.
This bill extends the sunset date of the SGBWQA from July 1,
2017 to July 1, 2030.
Background
AB 1010 (Hernandez, Chapter 404, Statutes of 2007), extended the
sunset for the SGBWQA from 2010 to 2017, requires routine
updates of the authority's Internet Web site, and requires
routine reporting.
SB 1679 (Russell, Chapter 776, Statutes of 1992), enacted the
San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority Act (Act). State
Water Resources Control Board and Los Angeles Regional Water
Quality Control Board had investigated the groundwater
conditions since 1979. The basin is the primary drinking water
source for residents and the US EPA had placed four areas of the
basin on its Superfund list in 1984. US EPA released a "San
Gabriel Basin-Wide Technical Plan" in 1990, describing a
strategy to remediate groundwater pollution. The above three
entities prepared a "white paper" describing institutional and
financial aspects of a comprehensive local groundwater
management program and concluded that a local program must
possess powers to construct and operate cleanup works, to
coordinate and regulate groundwater extraction and cleanup, and
to finance activities.
The three water agencies in the basin formed a joint powers
authority (JPA) and the watermaster (i.e., a judicially created
association of private and public groundwater users) obtained
authority to regulate pumping for water quality protection.
However, because of concerns that the JPA was not effective, SB
1679 created the Act with certain powers to address the
contamination problems.
AB 2173 (Margett, Chapter 281, Statutes of 1996), extended a
1998 sunset to 2002, reduced the cap on the annual pumping right
assessment from $35 to $20 per acre foot, and established a
"limited function status" provision. AB 2544 (Calderon, Chapter
905, Statutes of 2000), increased the number of board members
from five to seven and required two members to be producer
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members, reduced the annual pumping right assessment cap from
$20 to $13, revised the board voting practices for certain
actions, and made various other changes to the Act. SB 334
(Romero, Chapter 192, Statutes of 2003), reduced the annual
pumping right assessment cap from $13 to $10.
SB 822 (Margett, Chapter 271, Statutes of 2005), authorized the
SGBWQA to receive state funds for the purpose of meeting certain
nonfederal matching fund requirements.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/20/13)
San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority (source)
Association of California Water Agencies
California Water Association
Central Basin Municipal Water District
San Gabriel Valley Municipal Water District
San Gabriel Valley Water Association
Walnut Valley Water District
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : The San Gabriel Basin Water Quality
Authority states, "To continue protecting residents and
businesses in the communities of the San Gabriel Valley through
its ongoing efforts to cleanup the San Gabriel Valley regional
groundwater supply, the San Gabriel Basin Water Quality
Authority has an urgent and compelling need to extend its
legislatively granted charter from the current sunset date of
2017 to 2030."
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 76-1, 08/19/13
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley, Dahle, Daly,
Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox, Frazier, Beth Gaines,
Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gorell, Gray, Grove,
Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Roger Hernández, Holden, Jones,
Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein,
Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mitchell, Morrell, Mullin,
Muratsuchi, Nazarian, Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea,
Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting,
Wagner, Waldron, Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada,
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John A. Pérez
NOES: Chávez
NO VOTE RECORDED: V. Manuel Pérez, Vacancy, Vacancy
RM:nl 8/20/13 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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