Senate BillNo. 1120


Introduced by Senator Galgiani

February 19, 2014


An act to add Section 147.3 to the Water Code, relating to water.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

SB 1120, as introduced, Galgiani. Local water supply programs or projects: funding.

Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update, every 5 years, the plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is known as the California Water Plan. The department also is required annually to prepare and submit to the Legislature a report with regard to the budget for the State Water Resources Development System.

This bill would require the department to conduct a statewide inventory of local regional water supply projects and post specified results of the inventory on the department’s Internet Web site by July 1, 2015.

Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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SECTION 1.  

Section 147.3 is added to the Water Code, to
2read:

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147.3.  

(a) The department shall conduct a statewide inventory
4of local regional water supply projects and post the results of the
5inventory on the department’s Internet Web site by July 1, 2015.

P2    1(b) The inventory information posted on the department’s
2Internet Web site pursuant to subdivision (a) shall include, but not
3be limited to, all of the following:

4(1) The projected date for a project to complete the permit
5process and subsequently commence operations.

6(2) The cost of the project.

7(3) The projected additional acre feet of water realized on an
8annual basis.



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