BILL NUMBER:  SB 1340
  VETOED	DATE: 09/13/2012




To the Members of the California State Senate:

I am returning Senate Bill 1340 without my signature.

This bill would authorize the Sewerage Commission Oroville to apply
to the State Water Resources Control Board for a permit to
appropriate water from the Feather River in an amount up to the
amount of treated wastewater that it discharges into the Feather
River. I share the goals of appropriating treated wastewater which
can be done without this legislation.

The troublesome provision of this bill is the requirement that the
State Water Board prepare a costly and unnecessary report.  Including
this report was not the author's idea.

I am asking the State Water Board to work with the Sewerage
Commission on its meritorious application.

Sincerely,



Edmund G. Brown Jr.