BILL ANALYSIS
AB 2776
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Date of Hearing: April 21, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Felipe Fuentes, Chair
AB 2776 (Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife) - As Amended:
April 6, 2010
Policy Committee: Water, Parks and
Wildlife Vote: 13-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable: No
SUMMARY
This bill makes numerous amendments intended to clarify the
Water Code. Specifically, this bill:
1)Extends the terms of two board members on each of the nine
regional water quality control boards in the state to
September 30, 2014, in order to make the terms for each board
member consistent and uniform.
2)Requires an agency delivering recycled water to a condominium
project, prior to the indoor use of the water, to file a
report with the State Department of Public Health, in addition
to the regional water quality control board.
3)Deletes an existing exemption from constitutional subvention
requirements which has been found to be unconstitutional by a
court of appeal.
4)Deletes a requirement for notice in permit or license
revocation procedures where the permit or license holder
themselves is requesting the revocation.
5)Clarifies existing provisions relating to unlawful discharges
for which a federal Clean Water Act permit has not been
issued.
6)Clarifies that the State Water Resources Control Board
(SWRCB), on its own motion, may review regional water quality
control board basin planning actions.
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7)Updates cross-references, deletes obsolete provisions, and
makes various technical and clarifying changes.
FISCAL EFFECT
Negligible costs, if any.
COMMENTS
1) Rationale. The Committee on Water, Parks and Wildlife
intends this bill to be a technical cleanup of the Water
Code. According to the author and SWRCB (the bill's
sponsor), the bill makes numerous, technical, clarifying
and non-substantive changes to update and improve the Water
Code and makes non-controversial changes to conform with
other existing laws and to clarify procedures.
2) Background . Existing law creates the SWRCB and nine
regional water quality control boards. The state and
regional boards have authority over water allocation and
water quality protection. The regional boards develop and
enforce water quality objectives and regional basin plans,
issue waste discharge requirements and monitor water
quality.
Analysis Prepared by : Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081