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UNFINISHED BUSINESS
Bill No: SB 1345
Author: Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee
Amended: 6/17/14
Vote: 21
SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER COMMITTEE : 9-0, 4/22/14
AYES: Pavley, Cannella, Evans, Fuller, Hueso, Jackson, Lara,
Monning, Wolk
SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE : 7-0, 5/5/14
AYES: De Le�n, Walters, Gaines, Hill, Lara, Padilla, Steinberg
SENATE FLOOR : 36-0, 5/15/14 (Consent)
AYES: Anderson, Beall, Berryhill, Block, Cannella, Corbett,
Correa, De Le�n, DeSaulnier, Evans, Fuller, Gaines, Galgiani,
Hancock, Hernandez, Hill, Hueso, Huff, Jackson, Knight, Lara,
Leno, Lieu, Liu, Mitchell, Monning, Morrell, Nielsen, Padilla,
Pavley, Roth, Steinberg, Torres, Vidak, Wolk, Wyland
NO VOTE RECORDED: Calderon, Walters, Wright, Yee
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 8/14/14 (Consent) - See last page for
vote
SUBJECT : Natural resources
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This bill extends the sunset date of the Wholesale
Regional Water System Security and Reliability Act (Act) from
2015 until 2022 and makes technical and clarifying changes to
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the Public Resources and Water Codes.
Assembly Amendments extend the comment period from 90 days to
120 days for the Alfred E. Alquist Seismic Safety Commission and
the Department of Public Health to comment to on changes or
delays to the capital improvement program required pursuant to
the Act; and make other clarifying and technical changes.
ANALYSIS :
Existing law:
1.Excludes the Southern Subdistrict of the Coast Forest District
(Southern Subdistrict).from the working forest management plan
program (however, there is an incorrect reference to the
regulations in the Forest Practice Rules describing the
Southern Subdistrict).
2.Authorizes the Central Valley Floor Protection Board to record
a lien with a county in response to an uncorrected violation.
3.Requires, pursuant to the Act, the City and County of San
Francisco to adopt a program of capital improvement projects
to restore and improve the Bay Area regional water system that
includes a schedule for completion of the projects, and
sunsets the Act on January 1, 2015.
4.Requires, pursuant to the Act, the SSC and DPH to provide
comments to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee (JLAC)
within 90 days of receiving notice of a change or delay in the
capital improvement project program, as specified.
This bill:
1.Amends the working forest management plan by referencing the
correct regulation in the Forest Practice Rules that describes
the Southern Subdistrict.
2.Makes technical, non-substantive changes to the statute
governing the Central Valley Floor Protection Board liens.
3.Extends the Act sunset date to January 1, 2022.
4.Extends the comment period from 90 days to 120 days for the
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SSC and the DPH to comment to JLAC regarding changes or delays
to the capital improvement program required pursuant to the
Act.
Background
The Act requires the City and County of San Francisco (City and
County) to adopt a program of capital improvement projects to
restore and improve the Bay Area regional water system that
includes a schedule for completion of the projects. The Act
requires that the program be completed by 2015. The program is
referred to as the Water System Improvement Program. If there
is to be a delay in completion dates, the City and County is
required to notify the public and specified parties. The DPH
and the SSC are required to submit written comments to the
proposed change as to the significance of that change on public
health and safety.
By September 1 of each year, the City and County is required to
report to the Legislature, the SSC, and DPH on its progress made
the previous year on the Water System Improvement Program.
By February 1 of each year, the San Francisco Public Utilities
Commission (SF PUC), as the regional wholesale water supplier,
is required to report to the Legislature and DPH on its progress
during the previous year on securing supplemental sources of
water during dry years.
DPH is required to ensure that the Bay Area regional water
system is operated in compliance with the California Safe
Drinking Water Act and applicable federal law.
The SF PUC is required to reimburse the state for all costs
incurred by DPH and the SSC in carrying out duties under the
Act.
Prior Legislation
The Act (AB 1823, Papan, Chapter 841, Statutes of 2002) requires
the City and County to adopt capital improvement projects to
ensure the reliability and quality of the Bay Area regional
water system in the face of age-related or seismic stress. In
order to facilitate state oversight of the projects, the City
and County must submit a report on or before, September 1 of
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each year, to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, the SSC,
and DPH detailing the progress made since the previous fiscal
year. In 2008, AB 2437 (Ruskin, Chapter 99) extended, among
other provisions, the Act's original 2010 sunset date to 2015.
FISCAL EFFECT : Appropriation: No Fiscal Com.: Yes
Local: Yes
According to the Assembly Appropriations Committee, ongoing
costs of less than $50,000 to the SSC and DPH to be reimbursed
by the SF PUC.
SUPPORT : (Verified 8/14/14)
Alameda County Water District
Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency
California Water Service Company
Cities of Brisbane, Burlingame, Daly City, Foster City, Hayward,
Menlo Park, Millbrae, Milpitas, Mountain View, Palo Alto,
Redwood City, San Bruno, Santa Clara, and Sunnyvale
City and County of San Francisco
Coastside County Water District
County Recorders Association of California
Estero Municipal Improvement District
International Union of Operating Engineers
Mid-Peninsula Water District
North Coast County Water District
Purissima Hills Water District
San Francisco Mayor, Edwin M. Lee
Stanford University
Town of Hillsborough Mayor, Jess E. Benton
Westborough Water District
ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT : The County Recorders Association of
California supports this bill as it clarifies in statute that
liens are properly recorded in the County Recorder office and
not that of the County Clerk.
The Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA)
contend that this bill will preserve statutory state oversight
of the City and County of San Francisco's capital improvement
program to restore and improve the 100-year old San Francisco
Regional Water System. BAWSCA argues that the program supports
the health, safety, and economic wellbeing of 1.7 million
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residents, 30,000 businesses, and thousands of community
agencies in the Bay Area dependent on water provided by the
regional system. They also assert that jobs and businesses in
the counties served by the San Francisco Regional Water System
provide a major part of California's economic activity and
income for residents. BAWSCA notes that state oversight
provided by the Act has proven very valuable to BAWSCA's member
agencies and customers. Extension of this oversight will ensure
water users that the San Francisco Regional Water System will be
reliable in the future.
ASSEMBLY FLOOR : 78-0, 8/14/14
AYES: Achadjian, Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Bigelow, Bloom,
Bocanegra, Bonilla, Bonta, Bradford, Brown, Buchanan, Ian
Calderon, Campos, Chau, Ch�vez, Chesbro, Conway, Cooley,
Dababneh, Dahle, Daly, Dickinson, Donnelly, Eggman, Fong, Fox,
Frazier, Beth Gaines, Garcia, Gatto, Gomez, Gonzalez, Gordon,
Gorell, Gray, Grove, Hagman, Hall, Harkey, Holden, Jones,
Jones-Sawyer, Levine, Linder, Logue, Lowenthal, Maienschein,
Mansoor, Medina, Melendez, Mullin, Muratsuchi, Nazarian,
Nestande, Olsen, Pan, Patterson, Perea, John A. P�rez, V.
Manuel P�rez, Quirk, Quirk-Silva, Rendon, Ridley-Thomas,
Rodriguez, Salas, Skinner, Stone, Ting, Wagner, Waldron,
Weber, Wieckowski, Wilk, Williams, Yamada, Atkins
NO VOTE RECORDED: Roger Hern�ndez, Vacancy
RM:e 8/15/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: SEE ABOVE
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