BILL NUMBER: SB 552	CHAPTERED  09/30/00

	CHAPTER   1044
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE   SEPTEMBER 30, 2000
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR   SEPTEMBER 30, 2000
	PASSED THE SENATE   AUGUST 31, 2000
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY   AUGUST 31, 2000
	CONFERENCE REPORT NO.   1
	PROPOSED IN CONFERENCE   AUGUST 28, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   FEBRUARY 22, 2000
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY   JULY 8, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MAY 6, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   MARCH 25, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Kelley

                        FEBRUARY 19, 1999

   An act to amend Section 5.1 of the County Water Authority Act
(Chapter 545 of the Statutes of 1943), relating to county water
authorities.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 552, Kelley.   County water authorities.
   The County Water Authority Act provides for the formation of
county water authorities and grants to those authorities specified
power, including the authority to use its water, works, facilities,
improvements, and property to provide, generate, and deliver
hydroelectric power.   The act authorizes an authority to sell
hydroelectric power to entities engaged in the sale of electric power
at retail.
   This bill would authorize an authority to sell hydroelectric power
to entities engaged in the sale of electric power at wholesale.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 5.1 of the County Water Authority Act (Chapter
545 of the Statutes of 1943) is amended to read:
  Sec. 5.1.  (a) Any authority incorporated under this act may
utilize any part of its water, and any parts of its works,
facilities, improvements, and property used for the development,
storage, or transportation of water, to provide, generate, and
deliver hydroelectric power, and may acquire, construct, operate, and
maintain any and all works, facilities, improvements, and property
necessary or convenient for that utilization.
   (b) Any authority incorporated under this act may do any of the
following:
   (1) Pursuant to contract, provide, sell, and deliver hydroelectric
power to the United States of America or to any board, department,
or agency thereof, to the state for the purposes of the State Water
Development System, and to any public agency, private corporation, or
any other person or entity, or any combination thereof, engaged in
the sale of electric power at retail or wholesale.
   (2) Use all or any part of hydroelectric power directly, or
indirectly through exchange, in exercising any other power of an
authority.
   (c) (1) An authority located within San Diego County may acquire,
construct, own, operate, control, or use, within or without, or
partially within or partially without, its territory, works or parts
of works for supplying its member public agencies, or some of them,
with gas or electricity, or both gas and electricity, and may do all
things necessary or convenient to the full exercise of these powers.

   (2) An authority located within San Diego County may, pursuant to
a contract, purchase gas, electricity, or related services from the
United States of America or any board, department, or agency thereof,
the State of California, any public agency, person, or private
company and provide, sell, exchange, or deliver them to any public
agency, private company, or person, or any combination thereof,
engaged in the sale of gas or electricity at retail.
   (d) For the purposes of this section, "public agency" means a
city, county, city and county, district, local agency, public
authority, or public corporation.