BILL NUMBER: SB 1014	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Denham

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2010

   An act to amend Section 79171 of the Water Code, relating to
groundwater.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1014, as introduced, Denham. Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water,
Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Bond Act: groundwater
storage projects.
   The Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection, and
Flood Protection Bond Act (bond act), approved by the voters as
Proposition 13 at the March 7, 2000, statewide primary election,
authorizes the issuance and sale of a total of $1,970,000,000 in
general obligation bonds. The bond act requires that $630,000,000 of
the proceeds from the sale of those bonds be allocated for purposes
of water supply reliability projects. Existing law authorizes the
Department of Water Resources, upon appropriation by the Legislature,
to use $200,000,000 from the moneys allocated for water supply
reliability projects for purposes of providing grants for groundwater
storage projects that produce water supply benefits for local
agencies and water users. The bond act defines various terms for
these purposes.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
definitions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 79171 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   79171.  Unless the context otherwise requires, the following
definitions govern the construction of this article:
   (a) "Conjunctive use" means the temporary storage of water in a
groundwater aquifer through intentional recharge and subsequent
extraction for later use. Storage is accomplished by either of the
following methods:
   (1) "Direct recharge" of an aquifer by conducting surface water
into the ground by various means, including, without limitation,
spreading ponds and injection wells for the purpose of making the
water stored in the aquifer available for extraction and later use in
drier years.
   (2) "In-lieu recharge" means increasing the amount of groundwater
available in an aquifer by substituting surface water supplies to a
user who would otherwise pump groundwater.
   (b) "Conjunctive use facilities" include land and appurtenant
facilities for any phase of a conjunctive use operation. Appurtenant
facilities may include subsurface storage, treatment, conveyance,
recharge ponds, injection wells, spreading grounds, monitoring,
measurements, subsidence detection, flow regulation, detention basins
to facilitate recharge, diversion facilities, and extraction
facilities.
   (c) "Conjunctive use project" means a project that is intended to
produce water supply benefits for the local agency or a project that
is intended to produce water supply benefits for water users,
including the environment, in addition to the local agency.
   (d) "Local agency" means  any   a  city,
county, city and county, district, joint powers authority, mutual
water company, or other political subdivision of the state.
   (e) "Project participants" means  any   a
 public agency participating in, and benefiting from, a
conjunctive use project under this article.
   (f) "Subaccount" means the Conjunctive Use Subaccount created by
Section 79172.