BILL ANALYSIS                                                                                                                                                                                                    �



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          Date of Hearing:   August 8, 2012

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                    SB 1340 (LaMalfa) - As Amended:  July 2, 2012 

          Policy Committee:                             Water, Parks and 
          Wildlife     Vote:                            12-0

          Urgency:     No                   State Mandated Local Program: 
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill authorizes the Sewerage Commission Oroville (SCO) to 
          apply, on or after July 1, 2013, to the State Water Resources 
          Control Board (SWRCB) for a permit to appropriate an amount of 
          water up to the amount of treated wastewater SCO discharges into 
          the Feather River.  The bill would allow SCO to sell or utilize 
          for any beneficial purpose water appropriated under the permit.  
          Additionally, the bill requires SWRCB to prepare, by July 1, 
          2013, a report on the potential cumulative effects of waste 
          discharge entities applying for water rights to their 
          discharges.   

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Onetime costs in 2012-13 of approximately $110,000 to SWRCB to 
          complete the cumulative effects report (special fund). 

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale.   The author intends this bill to provide an option 
            to SCO that might allow it to recoup the costs of water 
            treatment, which the author describes as increasingly 
            expensive.  The author notes last year's enactment of AB 134 
            (Chapter 212, Dickenson), which authorized the Sacramento 
            Regional County Sanitation District to apply to SWRCB for a 
            permit to appropriate an amount of water for diversion from 
            the Sacramento River or the Sacramento San-Joaquin Delta equal 
            to the amount of treated wastewater discharged by the 
            district.

           2)Support.   This bill is supported by SCO, the Oroville City 








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            Council and other regional interests.

           3)At the time this analysis was prepared, there was no 
            opposition formally registered against this bill.  

           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081