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                                                                  AB 2277
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          Date of Hearing:   March 23, 2010

                   ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE
                            Jared William Huffman, Chair
                AB 2277 (Fletcher) - As Introduced:  February 18, 2010
           
          SUBJECT  :   Water conservation: urban retail water suppliers

           SUMMARY  :   Updates requirements for urban water suppliers to  
          consider military base water conservation targets set by  
          Presidential Executive Order.  Specifically,  this bill  changes a  
          reference from Presidential Executive Order 13423 to  
          Presidential Executive Order 13514.  

           EXISTING LAW:

           1)Directs the state to achieve a 20 percent reduction in urban  
            per capita water use in California by December 31, 2020.  

          2)Requires urban retail water suppliers to develop urban water  
            use targets that will cumulatively result in the 20 percent  
            reduction referenced above.

          3)Directs an urban retail water supplier that supplies water to  
            a military installation to consider that installation's  
            requirements under federal Executive Order 13423.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :   Unknown

           COMMENTS  :   Executive Order 13423, signed by President Bush on  
          January 26, 2007, required federal agencies to reduce water  
          consumption intensity, relative to the baseline of the agency's  
          water consumption in fiscal year 2007, by 2 percent annually  
          through the end of fiscal year 2015 or 16 percent by the end of  
          fiscal year 2015.  

          Executive Order 13514, signed by President Obama on October 8,  
          2009, requires federal agencies to reduce their potable water  
          consumption intensity by 2 percent annually through fiscal year  
          2020, or 26 percent by the end of fiscal year 2020 relative to a  
          baseline of the agency's water consumption in fiscal year 2007.   


           REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION  :   









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           Support 
           
          None on file.

           Opposition 
           
          None on file.
           
          Analysis Prepared by  :    Tina Cannon Leahy / W., P. & W. / (916)  
          319-2096