Bill Text: CA AB1738 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 1738 (Prior Session Legislation)

Bill Title: Building standards: dark graywater.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Senate committee without further action. [AB1738 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB1738-Amended.html

BILL NUMBER: AB 1738	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member McCarty

                        FEBRUARY 1, 2016

   An act to amend Section 17922.12 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to building standards.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1738, as amended, McCarty. Building  Standards: Dark
Graywater.   standards: dark graywater. 
   The California Building Standards Law provides for the adoption of
building standards by state agencies by requiring all state agencies
that adopt or propose adoption of any building standard to submit
the building standard to the California Building Standards Commission
for approval and adoption.
   Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community
Development to propose the adoption, amendment, or repeal of building
standards to the commission relating to hotels, motels, lodging
houses, apartment houses, and dwellings, and the buildings and
structures accessory thereto, except as specified.
   Existing law requires the department, at the next triennial
building standards  rulemaking,   rulemaking
cycle,  to adopt and submit to the commission for approval
building standards for the construction, installation, and alteration
of graywater systems for indoor and outdoor uses. Existing law
excludes wastewater from kitchen sinks and dishwashers from the
definition of "graywater."
   This bill would define "dark graywater" as a specified wastewater
that comes from kitchen sinks and dishwashers. This bill would
require the department, at the next triennial building standards
rulemaking cycle, to  adopt   develop  and
submit for approval building standards for the construction,
installation, and alteration of dark graywater systems for indoor and
outdoor uses.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 17922.12 of the Health and Safety Code is
amended to read:
   17922.12.  (a) For the purposes of this section, "graywater" means
untreated wastewater that has not been contaminated by any toilet
discharge, has not been affected by infectious, contaminated, or
unhealthy bodily wastes, and does not present a threat from
contamination by unhealthful processing, manufacturing, or operating
wastes. "Graywater" includes wastewater from bathtubs, showers,
bathroom washbasins, clothes washing machines, and laundry tubs, but
does not include wastewater from kitchen sinks or dishwashers. For
purposes of this section, "dark graywater" includes untreated
wastewater from kitchen sinks or dishwashers that has not been
contaminated by any toilet discharge, has not been affected by
infectious, contaminated, or unhealthy bodily wastes, and does not
present a threat from contamination by unhealthful processing,
manufacturing, or operating wastes.
   (b) Notwithstanding Chapter 22 (commencing with Section 14875) of
Division 7 of the Water Code, at the next triennial building
standards rulemaking cycle that commences on or after January 1,
2009, the department shall  adopt  develop 
and submit for approval pursuant to Chapter 4 (commencing with
Section 18935) of Part 2.5 building standards for the construction,
installation, and alteration of graywater systems and dark graywater
systems for indoor and outdoor uses.
   (c) In  adopting   developing  building
standards under this section, the department shall do all of the
following:
   (1) Convene and consult a stakeholder's group that includes
members with expertise in public health, water quality, geology or
soils, residential plumbing, home building, and environmental
stewardship.
   (2) Ensure protection of water quality in accordance with
applicable provisions of state and federal water quality 
law.   law, including consulting   with the
State Water Resources Control Board when developing building
standards for dark graywater. 
   (3) Consider existing research available on the environmental
consequences to soil and groundwater of short-term and long-term
graywater and dark graywater use for irrigation purposes, including,
but not limited to, research sponsored by the Water Environment
Research Foundation.
   (4) Consider graywater and dark graywater use impacts on human
health.
   (5) Consider the circumstances under which the use of in-home
graywater and dark graywater treatment systems  are 
 is  recommended.
   (6) Consider the use and regulation of graywater and dark
graywater in other jurisdictions within the United States and in
other nations.
   (d) The department may revise and update the standards adopted
under this section at any time, and the department shall reconsider
these standards at the next triennial rulemaking that commences after
their adoption.
   (e) The approval by the California Building Standards Commission
of the standards for graywater systems adopted under this section
shall terminate the authority of the Department of Water Resources to
adopt and update standards for the installation, construction, and
alteration of graywater systems in residential buildings pursuant to
Chapter 22 (commencing with Section 14875) of Division 7 of the Water
Code.