Bill Text: CA AB2139 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

California Assembly Bill 2139 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Ocean Protection Council: ocean acidification and hypoxia.

Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3)

Status: (Passed) 2016-09-14 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 352, Statutes of 2016. [AB2139 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2139	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 28, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Williams

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2016

   An act to  amend Section 13170.3 of the Water Code,
relating to water   quality.   add
Section 35618 to the Public Resources Code, relating to ocean
resources. 



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2139, as amended, Williams.  State Water Resources
Control Board: California Ocean Plan.   Ocean Protection
Council: ocean acidification.  
   Existing law establishes the Ocean Protection Council in state
government and prescribes the membership, functions, and duties of
the council with regard to the protection and conservation of ocean
and coastal resources.  
   This bill would require the council to facilitate research and
compile data on the causes and effects of ocean acidification and, no
later than January 1, 2018, to adopt recommendations for further
legislative and executive actions to address ocean acidification.
 
    Under the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the State
Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water
quality control boards are the principal state agencies with
responsibility for the coordination and control of water quality in
the state. The act requires the state board to formulate and adopt
state policies for water quality control and to formulate and adopt,
and review at least every 3 years, a water quality control plan for
the ocean waters of the state known as the California Ocean Plan.
 
   This bill would require the state board, on or before January 1,
2018, to either amend the plan or adopt separate standards to address
water quality objectives and effluent limitations that specifically
relate to carbon dioxide and pH levels within the state's coastal
waters. 
   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 35618 is added to
the   Public Resources Code   , to read:  

   35618.  The council shall facilitate research and compile data on
the causes and effects of ocean acidification and, no later than
January 1, 2018, shall adopt recommendations for further legislative
and executive actions to address ocean acidification.  
  SECTION 1.    Section 13170.3 of the Water Code is
amended to read:
   13170.3.  (a) On or before January 1, 2013, the state board shall
either amend the California Ocean Plan or adopt separate standards to
address water quality objectives and effluent limitations that are
specifically appropriate to brackish groundwater treatment system
facilities that produce municipal water supplies for local use.
   (b) On or before January 1, 2018, the state board shall either
amend the plan or adopt separate standards to address water quality
objectives and effluent limitations that specifically relate to
carbon dioxide and pH levels within the state's coastal waters.