BILL ANALYSIS
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ASSEMBLY THIRD READING
AB 2515 (V. Manuel Perez)
As Amended April 29, 2010
Majority vote
ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY 9-0
APPROPRIATIONS 16-0
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|Ayes:|Nava, Miller, Blakeslee, |Ayes:|Fuentes, Conway, Hill, |
| |Chesbro, Davis, Feuer, | |Bradford, Charles |
| |Monning, Ruskin, Smyth | |Calderon, Coto, Davis, |
| | | |Hall, Harkey, Miller, |
| | | |Nielsen, Norby, Skinner, |
| | | |Solorio, Torlakson, |
| | | |Torrico |
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SUMMARY : Provides an expedited process for the Department of
Public Health (DPH) to establish criteria for the use of
point-of-use (POU) water treatment devices. Specifically, this
bill :
1)Makes legislative findings concerning arsenic contamination of
drinking water in the southeastern Coachella Valley of
Riverside County.
2)Provides that the DPH may adopt criteria governing the use of
POU water treatment devices in public water systems.
3)The POU criteria established by the DPH would be exempt from
the administrative procedure acts.
4)The POU criteria adopted by DHP would be in effect until
January 1, 2014, or until formal POU regulations have been
adopted by DPH, whichever occurs earlier.
FISCAL EFFECT : According to the Assembly Appropriations
Committee, minor, absorbable costs to DPH.
COMMENTS: Need for the bill: According to the author, "This
bill is attempting to address the drinking water needs of
residents in the Eastern Coachella Valley whose primary drinking
water source is contaminated with arsenic. Specifically,
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numerous small, unincorporated communities in the Eastern
Coachella Valley lack drinking and waste-water treatment
infrastructure. Most of the people who reside in this region
are low-income and live in mobile home parks that rely on
private, ground water wells as their primary source of potable
water. Point-of-use and point-of-entry treatment may be
appropriate alternatives to centralized treatment of
contaminated ground water; however, the regulations governing
point-of-use and point-of-treatment have not been developed,
thereby prohibiting their implementation."
Analysis Prepared by : Bob Fredenburg / E.S. & T.M. / (916)
319-3965
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