SB 1120, as amended, 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 abegin insert voluntaryend insert statewidebegin delete inventoryend deletebegin insert surveyend insert of local regional water supply
projects and post specified results of thebegin delete inventoryend deletebegin insert surveyend insert 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:
Section 147.3 is added to the Water Code, to
2read:
(a) begin insert(1)end insertbegin insert end insertThe department shall conduct abegin insert voluntaryend insert
4 statewidebegin delete inventoryend deletebegin insert surveyend insert of local regional water supply projects
P2 1and post the results of thebegin delete inventoryend deletebegin insert
surveyend insert on the department’s
2Internet Web site by July 1, 2015.
3(2) For purposes of complying with paragraph (1), the
4department may use any other survey that it conducted in
5conjunction with other agencies or third parties.
6(b) Thebegin delete inventoryend deletebegin insert surveyend insert information posted on the department’s
7Internet Web site pursuant to subdivision (a) shall include, but not
8be limited to, all of the following:
9(1) The projected date for a project to complete the permit
10process and subsequently commence operations.
11(2) The cost of the project.
12(3) The projected additional acre feet of water realized on an
13annual basis.
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