BILL ANALYSIS
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THIRD READING
Bill No: SB 457
Author: Wolk (D)
Amended: 6/1/09
Vote: 21
SENATE LOCAL GOVERNMENT COMMITTEE : 3-2, 4/29/09
AYES: Wiggins, Kehoe, Wolk
NOES: Cox, Aanestad
SENATE NATURAL RES. & WATER COMMITTEE : 7-3, 4/14/09
AYES: Pavley, Kehoe, Leno, Padilla, Simitian, Wiggins,
Wolk
NOES: Cogdill, Hollingsworth, Huff
NO VOTE RECORDED: Benoit
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 7-5, 5/28/09
AYES: Kehoe, Corbett, DeSaulnier, Hancock, Leno, Oropeza,
Yee
NOES: Cox, Denham, Runner, Walters, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Wolk
SUBJECT : Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill requires the Delta Protection
Commission to review all general plans of cities and
counties within the Delta, and the resource management
plan, to be consistent with any new Delta management plan
that may be created or adopted by the commission. This
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bill authorizes the commission to cover the cost of the
review by imposing a per acre-foot fee on any water
diversion with in the Delta Watershed, and a fee on any
water conveyed through or around the Delta.
ANALYSIS : In 1995, as required by the Delta Protection
Act, the Delta Protection Commission adopted a resource
management plan for a statutorily designated primary zone
of nearly 490,000 acres within the Sacramento-San Joaquin
river delta (SB 1866, [Johnston], Chapter 898, Statutes of
1992).
The Legislature created a cabinet-level Delta Vision
Committee to prepare a Delta Vision and Strategic Plan
which the Committee produced in January 2009 (SB 1574,
[Kuehl], Chapter 535, Statutes of 2006). Governor
Schwarzenegger also created a Governor's Delta Vision Blue
Ribbon Task Force which released its Delta Vision Strategic
Plan in October 2008. The Task Force's report called for a
new governance structure with the authority,
responsibility, accountability, science support, and secure
funding to achieve its recommended co-equal goals for
restoring the Delta ecosystem and creating a more reliable
water supply.
This bill requires the Delta Protection Commission
(Commission) to review all general plans of cities and
counties within the Delta, and the resource management
plan, to be consistent with any new Delta management plan
that may be created or adopted by the commission; authorize
the Commission to cover the cost of the review by imposing
a per acre-foot fee on any water diversion with in the
Delta Watershed, and a fee on any water conveyed through or
around the Delta. This bill imposes a state-mandated local
program by requiring all general plans of cities and
counties within the Delta to be consistent with the Delta
Stewardship Plan.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
According to the most recent Senate Appropriations
Committee analysis:
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Fiscal Impact (in thousands)
Major Provisions 2009-10 2010-11 2011-12
Fund
New Council staff Up to $3,000 per year
General
Implementation of Potentially in the hundreds
General
conservation plans of millions
New science program $10,000 to $20,000 per year
General
Delta Protection $1,500 $1,500
General
Commission consistency
determinations
Reimbursable state Unknown
General
mandates
SUPPORT : (Verified 6/1/09)
Planning and Conservation League
County of Solano
OPPOSITION : (Verified 6/1/09)
Association of California Water Agencies
CTW:do 6/4/09 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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