BILL NUMBER: AB 2075	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 29, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Fong

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

    An act to add Section 110 to the Water Code, relating to
water.   An act to repeal Section 25502.3 of the Public
Resources Code, relating to energy. 


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2075, as amended, Fong.  State water policy. 
 Energy: powerplant certification.  
   Existing law vests the State Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission with the exclusive jurisdiction to certify an
electric generating facility. Existing law defines a facility to mean
an electric transmission line or thermal powerplant with a
generating capacity of 50 megawatts or greater. Existing law
authorizes a person proposing to construct a facility excluded from
the commission's jurisdiction to waive the exclusion by submitting to
the commission a notice of intent to file an application for
certification.  
   This bill would repeal that authorization.  
   Existing law establishes various state water policies, including
the policy that the growing water needs of the state require the use
of water in an efficient manner and that the efficient use of water
requires certainty in the definition of property rights to the use of
water and transferability of such rights.  
   This bill would declare that it is the policy of the state to
promote water conservation, water efficiency, and water recycling as
the most cost-effective means of increasing water supply and
protecting the environment. 
   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 25502.3 of the  
Public Resources Code   is repealed.  
   25502.3.  Except as provided in Section 25501.7, any person
proposing to construct a facility excluded from the provisions of
this chapter may waive such exclusion by submitting to the commission
a notice of intention to file an application for certification, and
any and all of the provisions of this chapter shall apply to the
construction of such facility.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 110 is added to the Water
Code, to read:
   110.  It is the policy of the state to promote water conservation,
water efficiency, and water recycling as the most cost-effective
means of increasing water supply and protecting the environment.