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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 839
Author: Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review
Amended: 6/14/16
Vote: 21
PRIOR SENATE VOTES NOT RELEVANT
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 48-28, 6/16/16 - See last page for vote
SUBJECT: Public resources
SOURCE: Author
DIGEST: This bill makes various changes to implement the
resources, environmental protection, energy, and agriculture
budget actions adopted as part of the 2016-17 Budget package.
Assembly Amendments delete the Senate version of the bill, and
instead add the current language.
ANALYSIS: This bill includes the following key changes.
1) Public Water System Consolidation. Provides for a revised
definition of disadvantaged community to allow for public
water system consolidation for communities with an annual
median household income that is less than 80 percent of the
statewide annual median, and that is served by a small public
water system.
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2) Drinking Water Program Expenditure Cap. Increases the cap on
the total amount of funds received for state administration
of the drinking water program from $30.5 million to $38.9
million.
3) California Endangered Species Act Fees. Requires the
Department of Fish and Wildlife to collect a permit
application fee for processing permits under the California
Endangered Species Act, exempting voluntary habitat
restoration and non-mitigation projects.
4) Water Board Per Diem Increase. Provides an increase in total
compensation received by members of all regional water boards
to not exceed $378,350, and raises the daily per diem of each
member of a regional water board from $100 to $250.
5) Timber Regulation and Forest Restoration Fund Per Diem.
Authorizes the California Natural Resources Agency to use
moneys specified in the fund to provide a reasonable per diem
to non-government members for attendance at a meeting of the
related advisory committee.
6) Environmental Lab Accreditation Cleanup. Requires the State
Water Resources Control Board to adopt, by emergency
regulation, a schedule of fees to recover reasonable
regulatory costs incurred for the accreditation of
environmental laboratories, and to review and revise these
fees, as necessary, each fiscal year.
7) Toxic Treated Wood Waste. Extends to July 1, 2018, the time
by which the Department of Toxic Substances Control is to
prepare, post on its internet site, and provide appropriate
policy committees a comprehensive report related to toxic
treated wood waste.
8) Streambed Alterations. Makes technical changes to streambed
alteration fees by limiting fees to $5,000 for a single
project rather than an agreement, and changes the
authorization of a graduated schedule of fees from the
director of the Department of Fish and Wildlife to the
department.
9) Pesticide Poisoning Sunset Date. Extends to January 1, 2019
from January 1, 2017, the date by which a laboratory testing
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for pesticide poisoning must share specified information with
the Department of Pesticide Regulation.
10)Drought Reporting. Requires regular reporting by the
California Natural Resource Agency on drought information for
the previous year and, separately, on lessons learned from
the state's response to drought.
11)Cross-Media Environmental Enforcement. Requires the boards
and departments of the California Environmental Protection
Agency to participate in, and undertake certain activities
related, to focused environmental enforcement in
disadvantaged communities.
12)Oil Spill Loans and Transfers. Extends to June 30, 2019 a
general fund loan from the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund and
specifies that the administrator is not allowed to increase
fees to make up any shortfalls.
13)Natural Gas Tracking System Study. Provides that the
California Energy Commission, on or before September 15,
2017, report to the Legislature on a recommended plan for
tracking natural gas, as specified. Requires the Air
Resources Board, in consultation with the commission, to
develop a model of fugitive and vented emissions of methane
from specified natural gas infrastructure.
14)Hazardous Waste Fees. Eliminates the option to pay a flat
fee for a permit application in lieu of a fee for service, so
that permit applicants pay the full costs associated with
permitting efforts.
15)Salton Sea Design-Build Projects. Clarifies that the
Department of Water Resources design-build authority includes
specified programs related to the Salton Sea.
16)Environmental License Plate Fund Fee Increase. Increases,
from $38 to $43, the fee for renewal, retention, transfer or
duplication of environmental license plates.
17)Technical Cleanup. Clarifies that declaration of a seed,
plant nursery stock, or crop as invasive is a power reserved
for the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, and makes related
technical changes, (2) provides for lead acid batteries to be
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included as a potential priority product in the priority work
plan at the Department of Toxic Substances Control; (3)
clarifies that the timeframe for a temporary permit or
temporary change order for water rights diversion does not
limit the authorization for beneficial use of water diverted
to storage, oil definition, timber restoration and forest
restoration fund; (4) makes technical changes to the
encumbrance timing of a specific water rights fund
appropriation; and, (5) contains necessary provisions to
avoid a chaptering out issue with SB 837 (Committee on Budget
and Fiscal Review, 2016) of the current legislative session
(General Government II Trailer Bill).
FISCAL EFFECT: Appropriation: Yes Fiscal
Com.:YesLocal: Yes
According to the Senate Budget and Fiscal Review Committee:
Appropriates $230,000 to the California Natural Resources Agency
for support of the Timber Regulation and Forest Restoration
public process and technical support.
SUPPORT: (Verified6/24/16)
None received
OPPOSITION: (Verified6/24/16)
None received
ASSEMBLY FLOOR: 48-28, 6/16/16
AYES: Alejo, Arambula, Atkins, Bloom, Bonilla, Bonta, Brown,
Burke, Calderon, Campos, Chau, Chiu, Chu, Cooley, Dababneh,
Daly, Dodd, Eggman, Frazier, Cristina Garcia, Eduardo Garcia,
Gatto, Gipson, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon, Gray, Holden,
Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Lopez, Low, McCarty, Medina, Mullin,
Nazarian, O'Donnell, Quirk, Ridley-Thomas, Rodriguez,
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Santiago, Mark Stone, Thurmond, Ting, Weber, Williams, Wood,
Rendon
NOES: Achadjian, Travis Allen, Baker, Bigelow, Chang, Chávez,
Dahle, Beth Gaines, Gallagher, Grove, Hadley, Harper, Jones,
Kim, Lackey, Linder, Maienschein, Mathis, Mayes, Melendez,
Obernolte, Olsen, Patterson, Salas, Steinorth, Wagner,
Waldron, Wilk
NO VOTE RECORDED: Brough, Cooper, Roger Hernández, Irwin
Prepared by: Catherine Freeman / B. & F.R. / (916) 651-4103
7/29/16 11:00:42
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