SB 1164, as introduced, Cannella. Sustainable Groundwater Management Act: groundwater sustainability agencies.
Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources that are designated as basins subject to critical conditions of overdraft to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2020, and requires all other groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2022, except as specified. The act authorizes a local agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater basin to decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency for that basin.
This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to those provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 10723 of the Water Code is amended to
2read:
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), any local
2agency or combination of local agencies overlying a groundwater
3basin may decide to become a groundwater sustainability agency
4for that basin.
5(b) Before deciding to become a groundwater sustainability
6agency, and after publication of notice pursuant to Section 6066
7of the Government Code, the local agency or agencies shall hold
8a public hearing in the county or counties overlying the basin.
9(c) (1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the following
10agencies created by statute to manage groundwater shall be deemed
11the exclusive local agencies within their respective statutory
12boundaries with powers to comply with this part:
13(A) Alameda County Flood Control and Water Conservation
14District, Zone 7.
15(B) Alameda County Water District.
16(C) Desert Water Agency.
17(D) Fox Canyon Groundwater Management Agency.
18(E) Honey Lake Valley Groundwater Management District.
19(F) Long Valley Groundwater Management District.
20(G) Mendocino City Community Services District.
21(H) Mono County Tri-Valley Groundwater Management
22District.
23(I) Monterey Peninsula Water Management District.
24(J) Ojai Groundwater Management Agency.
25(K) Orange County Water District.
26(L) Pajaro Valley Water Management Agency.
27(M) Santa Clara Valley Water District.
28(N) Sierra Valley Groundwater Management District.
29(O) Willow Creek Groundwater Management Agency.
30(2) An agency identified in this subdivision may opt out of being
31the exclusive groundwater management agency within its statutory
32boundaries by sending a notice to the department, which shall be
33posted on the department’s Internet Web site within 15 days of
34receipt. If an agency identified in
paragraph (1) opts out of being
35the exclusive groundwater management agency, any other local
36agency or combination of local agencies operating within the
37statutory boundaries of the agency that has opted out may notify
38the department pursuant to Section 10723.8 of its decision to be
39the groundwater sustainability agency.
P3 1(3) A local agency listed in paragraph (1) may comply with this
2part by meeting the requirements of Section 10733.6 or opting to
3become a groundwater sustainability agency pursuant to this
4section. A local agency with authority to implement a basin-specific
5management plan pursuant to its principal act shall not exercise
6anybegin delete authoritiesend deletebegin insert
authorityend insert granted in this part in a manner
7inconsistent with any prohibitions or limitations in its principal
8act unless the governing board of the local agency makes a finding
9that the agency is unable to sustainably manage the basin without
10the prohibited authority.
11(d) The decision of a local agency or combination of agencies
12to become a groundwater sustainability agency shall take effect
13as provided in Section 10723.8.
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