Bill Text: CA AB1739 | 2013-2014 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Groundwater management.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2014-09-16 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 347, Statutes of 2014. [AB1739 Detail]

Download: California-2013-AB1739-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1739	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Dickinson
   (Coauthor: Assembly Member Rendon)

                        FEBRUARY 14, 2014

   An act to add Section 10750.3 to the Water Code, relating to
groundwater.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1739, as introduced, Dickinson. Groundwater basin management:
sustainability.
    Existing law, the Groundwater Quality Monitoring Act of 2001,
requires the State Water Resources Control Board to integrate
existing monitoring programs and design new program elements, as
necessary, to establish a comprehensive monitoring program capable of
assessing each groundwater basin in the state through direct and
other statistically reliable sampling approaches. The act requires
the state board, in establishing the comprehensive monitoring
program, to prioritize groundwater basins that supply drinking water.

   This bill would require the State Water Resources Control Board,
in consultation with the Department of Water Resources, to develop
thresholds for the sustainable management of the priority groundwater
basins.
   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 10750.3 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   10750.3.  The state board, in consultation with the department,
shall develop thresholds for the sustainable management of the
priority groundwater basins listed pursuant to the Groundwater
Quality Monitoring Act of 2001 (Part 2.76 (commencing with Section
10780)), as that list may be amended.