BILL NUMBER: AB 1860	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fletcher

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2012

   An act to amend Section 13245 of the Water Code, relating to
regional water quality control boards.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1860, as introduced, Fletcher. Water: regional water quality
control boards.
   The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act provides for the
regional administration of water quality laws and, for that purpose,
divides the state into 9 regions with prescribed boundaries. The act
establishes a California regional water quality control board within
each region whose activities are overseen by the State Water
Resources Control Board. Existing law requires each regional board to
formulate and adopt water quality control plans for all areas within
the region, as specified. Under existing law a water quality control
plan, or a revision of the plan, adopted by a regional board, shall
not become effective unless it is approved by the state board, as
specified.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in this
provision.
   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 13245 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   13245.  A water quality control plan, or a revision 
thereof   of the plan  adopted by a regional board,
shall not become effective unless  and until  it is
approved by the state board. The state board may approve 
such   the  plan, or return it to the regional
board for further consideration and resubmission to the state board.
Upon resubmission the state board may either approve or, after a
public hearing in the affected region, revise and approve 
such   the  plan.