SB 664, as amended, Hertzberg. Water: urban water management planning.
Existing law, the Urban Water Management Planning Act, requires every urban water supplier to prepare and adopt an urban water management plan for submission to the Department of Water Resources and other entities that includes specified content, including an urban water shortage contingency analysis. Existing law requires this analysis to include actions to be undertaken by the urban water supplier to prepare for, and implement during, a catastrophic interruption of water supplies, including an earthquake. Existing law requires an urban water supplier to update its plan at least once every 5 years on or before December 31, in years ending in 5 and 0, except that the 2015 plan is required to be updated and submitted to the department by July 1, 2016.
This bill would require an urban water supplier to include within its planbegin insert,
beginning January 1, 2020,end insert a seismic risk assessment and mitigation plan to assess the vulnerability of each of the various facilities of a water system and mitigate those vulnerabilities.begin delete This bill would require the urban water supplier to submit the seismic risk assessment and mitigation plan by July 1, 2017.end delete This bill would authorize an urban water supplier to comply with this requirement by submitting a copy of an adopted local hazard mitigation plan or multihazard mitigation plan under specified federal law that addresses seismic risk.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 10632.5 is added to the Water Code, to
2read:
(a) In addition to the requirements of paragraph (3)
4of subdivision (a) of Section 10632,begin insert beginning January 1, 2020,end insert
5 the plan shall include a seismic risk assessment and mitigation
6plan to assess the vulnerability of each of the various facilities of
7a water system and mitigate those vulnerabilities.
8(b) An urban water supplier may comply with this section by
9submitting, pursuant to Section 10644, a copy of an adopted local
10hazard mitigation plan or multihazard mitigation plan under the
11federal Disaster Mitigation Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-390) if
12the local hazard mitigation
plan or multihazard mitigation plan
13addresses seismic risk.
14(c) (1) An urban water supplier is not
required to include the
15seismic risk assessment and mitigation plan in the urban water
16management plan update due on July 1, 2016.
17(2) An urban water supplier shall submit, pursuant to Section
1810644, the seismic risk assessment and mitigation plan by July 1,
192017.
20(3)
end delete
21begin insert(c)end insert An urban water supplier shall update the seismic risk
22assessment and mitigation plan when updating its urban water
23management plan as required by Section 10621.
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