Bill Text: CA AB2208 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water quality.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-08-27 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(c). [AB2208 Detail]

Download: California-2011-AB2208-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2208	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 9, 2012
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MARCH 29, 2012

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Perea

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2012

   An act to add Section 116337 to the Health and Safety Code,
relating to drinking water, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2208, as amended, Perea. Community water systems: community of
Lanare.
   Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the
State Department of Public Health to administer provisions relating
to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health.
Existing law, the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law of
1997, establishes the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund, which
is continuously appropriated to the department for the provision of
grants and revolving fund loans for the design and construction of
projects for public water systems that will enable suppliers to meet
safe drinking water standards. Existing law limits grants for
planning, engineering studies, environmental documentation, and
design of a single project to $500,000.
   Existing law, the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply,
Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006,
 an initiative,  authorizes the issuance of general
obligation bonds, a portion of which is made available to the
department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to address the
most critical water needs of the state, including the provision of
safe drinking water to all Californians, the protection of water
quality and the environment, and the improvement of water supply
reliability.
   This bill would require the Lanare Community Services District to
conduct a feasibility study, as prescribed,  that would, in part,
consider the consolidation or merger of the community water systems
of the communities of Lanare and Riverdale,  to identify and
recommend a project that would solve arsenic contamination in the
community of Lanare.  This bill would prohibit the department
from taking action on any  project relating to the community
water system of the community of Riverdale until this feasibility
study is complete. This bill would provide that if the study
recommends the consolida   tion or merger of these community
water systems, and if either community, or both, applies to the
department for funding from the funds described above, any funds
awarded by the department shall be used to implement the study's
recommendation.  By requiring the Lanare Community Services
District to conduct a feasibility study, this bill would impose a
state-mandated local program.
   This bill would appropriate unspecified sums from the Safe
Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and the Safe Drinking Water,
Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection
Fund of 2006 to the department for the purposes of remitting funds
to the Lanare Community Services District to compensate the district
for the costs of implementing these provisions.
   The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local
agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the
state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that
reimbursement.
   This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates
determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state,
reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to these
statutory provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: yes.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 116337 is added to the Health and Safety Code,
to read:
   116337.  (a) The Lanare Community Services District shall conduct
 and   , publish,  and submit to the
State Department of Public Health,  as soon as practicable, a
feasibility study to identify and recommend a project that will solve
arsenic contamination in the community of Lanare. The feasibility
study shall, at a minimum, do all of the following:
   (1) Identify and analyze potential projects, including, but not
limited to,  constructing a connection between  
the consolidation or merger of  the community water systems of
the Lanare Community Services District and the Riverdale Public
Utilities District.
   (2) Identify the long-term costs and the cost-effectiveness of
each project, including whether the ongoing costs of operations and
maintenance can be supported by the ratepayers in the community of
Lanare.
   (3) Recommend the project that is the most feasible, effective,
and cost-effective solution to arsenic contamination in the community
of Lanare. 
   (b) The department shall not take action on any project relating
to the community water system of the community of Riverdale until the
Lanare Community Services District completes the feasibility study
pursuant to subdivision (a).  
   (c) If the study recommends consolidation or merger of the
community water systems of the community of Lanare and the community
of Riverdale, and if either community, or both, applies to the
department for funding from the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving
Fund or the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood
Control, River Coastal Protection Fund of 2006, any funds awarded by
the department shall be used to implement the study's recommendation.
 
   (b) 
    (d)  The sum of ____ dollars ($____) is hereby
appropriated from the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund and
the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and Supply, Flood Control,
River and Coastal Protection Fund of 2006 to the department for the
purpose of compensating the Lanare Community Services District for
the costs of conducting the feasibility study required by subdivision
(a).
  SEC. 2.  If the Commission on State Mandates determines that this
act contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement to local
agencies and school districts for those costs shall be made pursuant
to Part 7 (commencing with Section 17500) of Division 4 of Title 2 of
the Government Code.