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          SENATE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                             Senator Ricardo Lara, Chair
                            2015 - 2016  Regular  Session

          AB 617 (Perea) - Groundwater.
          
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          |Version: July 16, 2015          |Policy Vote: N.R. & W. 9 - 0    |
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          |Urgency: No                     |Mandate: No                     |
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          |Hearing Date: August 27, 2015   |Consultant: Marie Liu           |
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          *********** ANALYSIS ADDENDUM - SUSPENSE FILE ***********
             The following information is revised to reflect amendments 
                     adopted by the committee on August 27, 2015


          Bill  
          Summary:  AB 617 would make changes regarding the development  
          and use of Sustainable Groundwater Plans. 


          Fiscal  
          Impact:  Unknown costs, likely in the mid-tens of thousands of  
          dollars per notice, to the Water Rights Fund (special) to the  
          State Water Resources Control Board (board) to investigate  
          notices that a state entity is not cooperating in the  
          implementation of a groundwater sustainability plan.


          Author  
          Amendments:  
           Delete amendments to the Sustainable Groundwater Management  
            Act that would have allowed groundwater sustainability  
            agencies developing plans for the same groundwater basin to  







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            use data that was consistent but not the same.


           Modifies the restrictions on the assigning of groundwater  
            rights.




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