BILL ANALYSIS
SB 1478
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Date of Hearing: June 29, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE
Jared William Huffman, Chair
SB 1478 (Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Water) - As
Amended: June 14, 2010
SENATE VOTE : 33-0
SUBJECT : Water conservation
SUMMARY : This bill makes technical changes to two provisions
governing water conservation. Specifically, this bill :
1)Grants urban wholesale water suppliers the same six-month
extension to adopt urban water management plans (UWMPs) that
was granted to retail water suppliers.
2)Updates a reference from former Presidential Executive Order
13423 to current Presidential Executive Order 13514. Both
mandate federal agencies conserve water.
EXISTING LAW :
1)Directs the state to achieve a 20 percent reduction in urban
per capita water use in California by December 31, 2020.
2)Requires urban retail water suppliers to develop urban water
use targets that will cumulatively result in the 20 percent
reduction referenced above.
3)Directs an urban retail water supplier that supplies water to
a military installation to consider that installation's
requirements under federal Executive Order 13423.
FISCAL EFFECT : None
COMMENTS :
SB 7 ((Steinberg), Chapter 5, Statutes of 2009-2010 Seventh
Extraordinary Session) requires, among other things, the state
achieve a 20 percent reduction in urban per capita water use by
December 31, 2020. SBX7 7 provided three specific methods for
urban retail water suppliers to meet the 20 percent reduction
goal, and a fourth method to be developed by the Department of
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Water Resources (DWR).
To allow urban retail water suppliers to use the to-be-developed
DWR method, SBX7 7 granted them a six month extension, to July
1, 2011, to adopt their statutorily required UWMPs. However,
while SBX7 7 imposed the same UWMP requirements on urban
wholesale water suppliers, it inadvertently neglected to grant
them the same six month extension to adopt UWMPs that was
granted to their retail customers. This bill corrects that
oversight.
This bill also corrects a reference to a federal executive order
regarding federal agency conservation that can be considered by
an urban retail water supplier who supplies a military base.
Executive Order 13423, signed by President Bush on January 26,
2007 was superseded by Executive Order 13514, signed by
President Obama on October 8, 2009.
In March and April of this year the Assembly Water, Parks and
Wildlife Committee heard similar legislation which was approved
by consent: AB 1677 (Caballero) and AB 2277 (Fletcher).
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
Inland Empire Utilities Agency
Las Virgenes Municipal Water District
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California
Municipal Water District of Orange County
San Diego County Water Authority
Opposition
None on file.
Analysis Prepared by : Tina Cannon Leahy / W., P. & W. / (916)
319-2096