BILL NUMBER: SB 1049	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Pavley

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2014

   An act to amend Sections 10537 and 10538 of, and to add Section
10551 to, the Water Code, relating to water.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1049, as introduced, Pavley. Integrated regional water
management plans.
   The Integrated Regional Water Management Planning Act authorizes a
regional water management group to prepare an integrated regional
water management plan, in accordance with certain procedures, for the
implementation or operation of specified qualified projects or
programs pertaining to water supply, water quality, or related
matters. The act defines "regional projects or programs" as projects
or programs identified in an integrated regional water management
plan that accomplish specified water-related goals, including an
increase in water supplies through the use of certain means.
   This bill would specifically include projects or programs that
reduce energy used to acquire, transport, treat, or distribute water,
as a regional project or program. The bill would require a regional
water management group to include all water suppliers that are within
the watershed area, the area over a groundwater basin or subbasin,
or the area within a county's boundaries.
   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 10537 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   10537.  "Regional projects or programs" means projects or programs
identified in an integrated regional water management plan that
accomplish any of the following:
   (a) Reduce water demand through agricultural and urban water use
efficiency.
   (b) Increase water supplies for any beneficial use through the use
of any of the following, or other, means:
   (1) Groundwater storage and conjunctive water management.
   (2) Desalination.
   (3) Precipitation enhancement.
   (4) Water recycling.
   (5) Regional and local surface storage.
   (6) Water-use efficiency.
   (7) Stormwater management.
   (c) Improve operational efficiency and water supply reliability,
including conveyance facilities, system reoperation, and water
transfers.
   (d) Improve water quality, including drinking water treatment and
distribution, groundwater and aquifer remediation, matching water
quality to water use, wastewater treatment, water pollution
prevention, and management of urban and agricultural runoff.
   (e) Improve resource stewardship, including agricultural lands
stewardship, ecosystem restoration, flood plain management, recharge
area protection, urban land use management, groundwater management,
water-dependent recreation, fishery restoration, including fish
passage improvement, and watershed management.
   (f) Improve flood management through structural and nonstructural
means, or by any other means. 
   (g) Reduce energy used to acquire, transport, treat, or distribute
water. 
  SEC. 2.  Section 10538 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   10538.  "Regional reports or studies" means reports or studies
relating to any of the matters described in subdivisions (a) to
 (f),   (g),  inclusive, of Section 10537,
that are identified in an integrated regional water management plan.
  SEC. 3.  Section 10551 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   10551.  (a) A regional water management group, to the extent
possible, shall include all of the water suppliers within one of the
following geographic areas:
   (1) The watershed area.
   (2) The area over a groundwater basin or subbasin.
   (3) The area within a county's boundaries.
   (b) For purposes of this section, water supplier includes
wholesale and retail, public and private water suppliers.