BILL NUMBER: AB 1102	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Duvall

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act to amend Section 13160 of the Water Code, relating to water
quality.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1102, as introduced, Duvall. State Water Resources Control
Board: water quality certifications.
   The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act designates the State
Water Resources Control Board as the state water pollution control
agency for the purposes of the federal Clean Water Act and other
federal acts. The act authorizes the state board to give any
certificate or statement required by a federal agency pursuant to a
federal act that there is reasonable assurance that an activity of
any person subject to the jurisdiction of the state board will not
reduce water quality below applicable standards.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 13160 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   13160.  The state board is designated as the state water pollution
control agency for all purposes stated in the  Federal Water
Pollution Control   Clean Water Act  (33
U.S.C. Sec. 1251 et seq.)  and any other federal act, heretofore
or hereafter enacted, and  is (a)  
  authorized to give any   may do
either of the following: 
    (a)     Give any  certificate or
statement required by any federal agency pursuant to any 
such  federal act that there is reasonable assurance that an
activity of any person subject to the jurisdiction of the state
board will not reduce water quality below applicable 
standards, and (b)     authorized
to exercise any   standards. 
    (b)     Exercise  any powers delegated
to the state by the  Federal Water Pollution Control
 Clean Water  Act (33 U.S.C.  1251,
  Sec. 1251  et seq.) and acts amendatory thereto.