BILL NUMBER: AB 2000	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Huber

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act relating to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2000, as introduced, Huber. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Delta
Plan.
   The Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Reform Act of 2009 requires the
Delta Stewardship Council to consider the Bay Delta Conservation Plan
(BDCP) for inclusion in a specified Delta Plan, and requires the
incorporation of the BDCP into the Delta Plan if the BDCP meets
certain requirements, as specified.
   This bill would state findings and declarations regarding the lack
of information about the regulatory and environmental consequences
of incorporating the BDCP into the Delta Plan. This bill would state
the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would include
elements in the environmental impact report and environmental impact
statement for the BDCP and to include certain changes in the BDCP,
as specified.
   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.  The Legislature finds and declares that the lack of
information in the Draft Delta Plan and corresponding Draft
Programmatic Environmental Impact Report about the regulatory and
environmental consequences of incorporating the Bay Delta
Conservation Plan into the Delta Plan makes it impossible for the
Delta Stewardship Council and the public to comprehend the
environmental consequences of adoption of the Delta Plan as required
under the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13
(commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code).
  SEC. 2.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation
that would require the inclusion of "nondiversion" alternatives as
part of the environmental impact report and environmental impact
statement for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan, a cost-benefit
analysis for all diversion and nondiversion alternatives, an
independent review of the science used in the environmental impact
report and environmental impact statement in coordination with the
delta counties, and the establishment and inclusion of a statutory
governance role with respect to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan for
decision makers in the delta counties, including municipalities and
other affected agencies.