BILL NUMBER: AB 903	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bill Berryhill

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act to amend Section 12200 of the Water Code, relating to the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 903, as introduced, Bill Berryhill. Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta.
   Under existing law, legislative findings and declarations state,
among other things, that the water problems of the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta are unique within the state and that a general law
cannot be made applicable to the Delta.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
legislative findings and declarations.
   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 12200 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   12200.   (a)    The Legislature hereby finds
 that the   all of the following: 
    (1)     The  water problems of the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are unique within the  State;
the   state. 
    (2)     The  Sacramento and San
Joaquin Rivers join at the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to discharge
their fresh water flows into Suisun, San Pablo  ,  and San
Francisco Bays  ,  and  thence   from
there  into the Pacific Ocean  ; the   .
  The  merging of fresh water with saline bay waters
and drainage waters  ,  and the withdrawal of fresh water
for beneficial uses  ,  creates an acute problem of salinity
intrusion into the vast network of channels and sloughs of the Delta
 ; the   . 
    (3)     The  State Water Resources
Development System has as one of its objectives the transfer of
waters from water-surplus areas in the Sacramento Valley and the
north coastal area to water-deficient areas to the south and west of
the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta via the Delta  ; water
  . Water  surplus to the needs of the areas in
which it originates is gathered in the Delta and thereby provides a
common source of fresh water supply for water-deficient areas.
 It 
   (  b)     It  is, therefore, hereby
declared that a general law cannot be made applicable to 
said   the  Delta and that the enactment of this
law is necessary for the protection, conservation, development,
control  ,  and use of the waters in the Delta for the
public good.