BILL NUMBER: SB 1036 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE MAY 27, 2014
AMENDED IN SENATE APRIL 7, 2014
AMENDED IN SENATE MARCH 24, 2014
INTRODUCED BY Senator Pavley
FEBRUARY 18, 2014
An act to add Section 10631.2 to the Water Code, relating to urban
water management.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 1036, as amended, Pavley. Urban water management plans.
Existing law, the Urban Water Management Planning Act, requires
every public and private urban water supplier that directly or
indirectly provides water for municipal purposes to prepare and adopt
an urban water management plan. The act requires each urban water
supplier to update its plan at least once every 5 years on or before
December 31, in years ending in 5 and zero, and requires an urban
water supplier to submit copies of its plan and copies of amendments
or changes to the plan to certain entities, including the Department
of Water Resources.
This bill would authorize an urban water supplier to include
within an urban water management plan certain energy-related
information, including, but not limited to, an estimate of the amount
of energy used to extract or divert water supplies. This bill would
require the department to develop a methodology for the
voluntary reporting of energy intensity of urban water systems and
include this methodology in the guidance for the preparation of urban
water management plans include in its guidance for
the preparation of urban water management plans a methodology for the
voluntary calculation or estimation of the energy intensity of urban
water systems .
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 10631.2 is added to the Water Code, to read:
10631.2. (a) In addition to the requirements of Section 10631, an
urban water management plan may, but is not required to, include any
of the following information:
(1) An estimate of the amount of energy used to extract or divert
water supplies.
(2) An estimate of the amount of energy used to convey water
supplies to the water treatment plants or distribution systems.
(3) An estimate of the amount of energy used to treat water
supplies.
(4) An estimate of the amount of energy used to distribute water
supplies through its distribution systems.
(5) An estimate of the amount of energy used for treated water
supplies in comparison to the amount used for nontreated water
supplies.
(6) An estimate of the amount of energy used to place water into
or withdraw from storage.
(7) Any other energy-related information the urban water supplier
deems appropriate.
(b) The department shall develop a methodology for the voluntary
reporting of energy intensity of urban water systems and include this
methodology in the guidance for the preparation of urban water
management plans.
(b) The department shall include in its guidance for the
preparation of urban water management plans a methodology for the
voluntary calculation or estimation of the energy intensity of urban
water systems. The department may consider studies and calculations
conducted by the Public Utilities Commission in developing the
methodology.