Bill Text: CA AB2560 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Water quality: notification levels and response levels: procedures.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2020-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 350, Statutes of 2020. [AB2560 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB2560-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2560

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Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Daly and Petrie-Norris)

February 19, 2020

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An act to add Section 116456 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to water quality.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2560, as introduced, Quirk. Water quality: notification and response levels: procedures.

The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various duties and responsibilities for the regulation and control of drinking water in the state. The act requires the state board to adopt drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water based upon specified criteria and requires any person who owns a public water system to ensure that the system, among other things, complies with those drinking water standards.

The act requires a public water system to provide prescribed notices within 30 days after it is first informed of a confirmed detection of a contaminant found in drinking water delivered by the public water system for human consumption that is in excess of a maximum contaminant level, a notification level, or a response level established by the state board.

This bill would require the state board to comply with specified public notice and comment and peer review procedures, as prescribed, when establishing or revising notification or response levels.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 116456 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

116456.

 When establishing or revising notification or response levels, the state board shall do all of the following:

(a) Electronically post on its internet website and distribute through email a notice informing interested persons that the state board has initiated the development of a notification or response level.

(b) Electronically post on its internet website and distribute through electronic mail a notice that a draft notification or response level is available. The notice shall include an electronic link to an internet webpage where the draft level can be viewed electronically along with the complete studies that were used to establish the level. Notice and document availability shall occur at least 45 calendar days before finalizing the notification or response level. The state board shall include the draft level as an informational item during a regularly noticed meeting of the state board.

(c) Submit its draft notification or response level for external peer review using the process described in Section 57004.

(d) Take a formal action to finalize and adopt the notification or response level.