BILL NUMBER: AB 2515 AMENDED
BILL TEXT
AMENDED IN SENATE AUGUST 2, 2010
AMENDED IN SENATE JULY 1, 2010
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 29, 2010
AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY APRIL 8, 2010
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member V. Manuel Perez
FEBRUARY 19, 2010
An act to amend Section 116380 of , and to add and repeal
Section 116761.25 of, the Health and Safety Code, relating to
drinking water, making an appropriation therefor, and
declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2515, as amended, V. Manuel Perez. Public water systems:
point-of-use treatment.
Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, provides for
the operation of public water systems, and requires the State
Department of Public Health to adopt regulations for these purposes,
as prescribed. Under existing law, regulations adopted by the
department are required to include requirements governing the use of
point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment by public water systems in
lieu of centralized treatment, where feasible.
This bill would make findings and declarations relating to
groundwater contamination in the Coachella Valley, and
would authorize the department to develop emergency regulations
governing the permitted use of point-of-entry and
point-of-use treatment by public water systems in lieu of centralized
treatment, as specified, and would require that these emergency
regulations remain in effect until the earlier of January 1, 2014, or
the effective date of the required nonemergency regulations.
This bill would, until January 1, 2014, authorize the department
to award a grant for point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment, in
lieu of centralized treatment, by a public water system that serves a
severely disadvantaged community, as defined.
Existing law establishes the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving
Fund, administered by the State Department of Public Health, and
continuously appropriates the money in the fund to that department to
provide grants or revolving fund loans for the design and
construction of projects for public water systems that will enable
suppliers to meet safe drinking water standards.
This bill would, until January 1, 2014, permit the State
Department of Public Health to provide a grant for point-of-entry and
point-of-use treatment under those provisions, thereby making an
appropriation.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no yes .
Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The Legislature finds and declares both of the
following:
(a) The arsenic contamination groundwater problem in the
southeastern Coachella Valley in Riverside County is largely
naturally occurring and is creating barriers to accessing safe
drinking water.
(b) There are many limitations to providing the small,
unincorporated communities in the Coachella Valley access to safe
drinking water.
SEC. 2. Section 116380 of the Health and Safety Code is amended to
read:
116380. (a) In addition to the requirements set forth in Section
116375, the regulations adopted by the department pursuant to Section
116375 shall include requirements governing the use of
point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment by public water systems in
lieu of centralized treatment where it can be demonstrated that
centralized treatment is not immediately economically feasible,
limited to the following:
(1) Water systems with less than 200 service connections.
(2) Usage allowed under the federal Safe Drinking Water Act and
its implementing regulations and guidance.
(3) Water systems that have submitted preapplications with the
State Department of Public Health for funding to correct the
violations for which the point-of-entry and point-of-use
treatment is provided.
(b) The department shall adopt emergency regulations governing the
permitted use of point-of-entry and point-of-use
treatment by public water systems in lieu of centralized treatment.
(1) The emergency regulations shall comply with Section 116552,
and shall comply with all of the requirements set forth in
subdivision (a) applicable to nonemergency regulations, but shall not
be subject to the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative
Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1
of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code). The emergency
regulations shall take effect when filed with the Secretary of State,
and shall be published in the California Code of Regulations.
(2) The emergency regulations adopted pursuant to this subdivision
shall remain in effect until the earlier of January 1, 2014, or the
effective date of regulations adopted pursuant to subdivision (a).
SEC. 3. Section 116761.25 is added to the
Health and Safety Code , to read:
116761.25. (a) The State Department of Public Health may award a
grant pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 116761.23, through
January 1, 2014, for point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment, in
lieu of centralized treatment, by a public water system meeting the
requirements of subdivision (b) of Section 116380 and regulations
adopted pursuant to that subdivision, for the full cost of the
project, if that system serves a severely disadvantaged community as
defined pursuant to subdivision (j) of Section 13476 of the Water
Code.
(b) The grant shall specify that equipment purchased under the
grant with remaining useful life after completion of the project
shall be provided for use in other projects meeting the requirements
of Section 116380 or disposed of in accordance with state and federal
requirements if there is no useful life after completion of the
project, as determined by the department.
(c) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1,
2014, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2014, deletes or extends
that date.
SEC. 3. SEC. 4. This act is an
urgency statute necessary for the immediate preservation of the
public peace, health, or safety within the meaning of Article IV of
the Constitution and shall go into immediate effect. The facts
constituting the necessity are:
In order to ensure the quality of drinking water through the
adoption of provisions relating to point-of-use
treatment, point-of-entry and point-of-use treatment,
at the earliest possible time, it is necessary that this act
take effect immediately.