BILL ANALYSIS
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| SENATE COMMITTEE ON NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER |
| Senator Fran Pavley, Chair |
| 2009-2010 Regular Session |
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BILL NO: AB 1677 HEARING DATE: June 9, 2010
AUTHOR: Caballero URGENCY: No
VERSION: April 8, 2010 CONSULTANT: Dennis O'Connor
DUAL REFERRAL: No FISCAL: No
SUBJECT: Public resources.
BACKGROUND AND EXISTING LAW
One of the bills in the water package passed last November in
the 7th Extraordinary Session was SBX7 1 (Simitian). That bill,
among other things, revised the Johnston-Baker-Andal-Boatwright
Delta Protection Act of 1992 (Delta Protection Act) and enacted
the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Act.
Another of the bills in the water package passed last November
in the 7th Extraordinary Session was SBX7 7 (Steinberg). That
bill, among other things, requires the state to achieve 20%
reduction in urban per capita water use by December 31, 2020.
The bill provided three specific methods for urban retail water
suppliers to meet the 20% reduction goal, and a 4th method to be
developed by the Department of Water Resources (DWR).
To allow urban retail water suppliers to use the to-be-developed
DWR 4th method, urban retail water suppliers were granted a six
month extension, to July 1, 2011, to adopt their statutorily
required urban water management plan (UWMP).
PROPOSED LAW
This bill would:
Correct a town-name reference from "Osladin" to "Isleton" in
the Delta Protection Act
Correct a federal agency reference from "Secretary of
Interior" to "Secretary of Commerce" in the Delta Conservancy
Act
Grant urban wholesale water suppliers the same a six month
extension to adopt UWMPs that was granted to retail water
suppliers.
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ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT
This bill would make technical but important corrections to two
bills passed as a part of the water package.
ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION: None
COMMENTS
Bill Conflicts. Provisions in this bill conflict with a number
of other bills, not the least of which is this Committee's
Committee Bill (SB 1478). Specifically, this bill includes
similar but different language to SB 1478's which provides urban
wholesale water suppliers the same six month extension to adopt
UWMPs that was granted to retail water suppliers. To avoid
conflicting language and chaptering issues, this Committee may
wish to amend this bill to delete the conflicting language and,
as a courtesy, add the author as a principle co-author to SB
1478.
SUGGESTED AMENDMENT
On page 4, delete lines 37 through 40 inclusive, and delete
pages 5 though 8 inclusive.
SUPPORT
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
San Diego County Water Authority
OPPOSITION
None Received
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