BILL ANALYSIS �
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Date of Hearing: May 25, 2012
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON WATER, PARKS AND WILDLIFE
Anthony Rendon, Chair
AB 2067 (Weber) - As Introduced: February 20, 2014
SUBJECT : Urban water management plans
SUMMARY : Simplifies urban water management plan (UWMP)
reporting requirements for demand management. Specifically,
this bill :
1)Distinguishes between urban retail water suppliers and urban
wholesale water suppliers in setting out mandatory water
demand management measure (DMM) reporting requirements;
2)Reduces the list of DMMs with mandatory reporting requirements
in a UWMP from 14 separate items into 7 broader categories;
3)Requires an urban retail water supplier to provide a
description of the nature and extent of the DMMs implemented
to achieve the statewide mandate of a per capita urban water
use reduction of 20% (from 2010 levels) by 2020. For each of
the 7 categories the urban retail water supplier must describe
the DMMs implemented over the past five years together with
current and future DMMs.
4)Requires an urban wholesale water supplier to report on a
subset of DMM categories as well as provide a description of
its distribution system asset management and wholesale
supplier assistance programs.
EXISTING LAW:
1)Mandates every urban water supplier to prepare and adopt an
UWMP, in accordance with specified requirements, for
submission to the Department of Water Resources (DWR).
2)Requires urban water suppliers to provide information in their
UWMPs relating to the supplier's DMMs including, but not
limited to, specific measures set forth in the statute.
3)Mandates that each urban retail water supplier shall achieve,
by 2020, a 20% reduction from baseline per capita water use in
2010.
4)Requires an urban retail water supplier to comply with the 20%
x 2020 mandate, including developing and implementing
reduction targets, or be rendered ineligible for state water
grants or loans after July 1, 2016.
FISCAL EFFECT : Unknown
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COMMENTS : This bill seeks to implement changes to DMM
reporting requirements as recommended by an Independent
Technical Panel (ITP) convened pursuant to State statute.
DMMs are policies or investments by a water supplier to achieve
efficient water use. Examples are landscape conservation
incentives, high-efficiency appliance rebates, consumer
education, and waste prevention ordinances.
AB 1420 (Laird/2007), among other requirements, conditioned
eligibility for any water management grant or loan made to an
urban water supplier on the implementation of the water demand
management measures specified in that supplier's UWMP. AB 1420
also required DWR convene the ITP in order to provide
recommendations to the Legislature for improving the adoption,
implementation, and reporting of DMMs by urban water suppliers.
December 2013 the ITP issued its Public Draft Report to the
Legislature on Urban Water Management Plan Demand Management
Measures Reporting and Requirements. The Report concluded that
setting out 14 explicit DMMs in the current statute and
requiring reporting on those was inefficient as many "are
outdated due to legislative code changes, advances in water
efficient devices or appliances, or improvements in technology
and management practices." The ITP advised, among other
improvements, that reporting should be focused on 6 foundational
best management practices and an "other" category that could
allow for new technologies and approaches. The ITP provided its
recommendations in the form of proposed statutory changes.
This bill implements the statutory changes proposed by the ITP.
REGISTERED SUPPORT / OPPOSITION :
Support
San Diego County Water Authority (sponsor)
Opposition
None on file
Analysis Prepared by : Tina Cannon Leahy / W., P. & W. / (916)
319-2096
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