Bill Text: CA AB2639 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary: water quality control plan: water right permits.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-05-26 - Read third time. Refused passage. (Ayes 34. Noes 26.). [AB2639 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2639
| Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk |
February 18, 2022 |
An act to add Section 13170.6 to the Water Code, relating to water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2639, as amended, Quirk.
Water San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary: water quality control plans and plan: water rights right permits.
Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the 9 California regional water quality control boards as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. Existing law requires the state board to formulate and adopt state policy for water quality control. Existing law authorizes the state board to adopt water quality control plans for waters that require water quality standards pursuant to the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, and provides that those plans supersede any regional water quality control plans for the same waters to the extent of any conflict.
This bill would require the state board, on or before December 31, 2023, to adopt a final update of the 1995 Water Quality Control Plan for the Bay-Delta,
San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary, as specified, and to implement the amendments to the Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary plan adopted by the state board pursuant to Resolution No. 2018-0059 on December 12, 2018. The bill would prohibit the state board board, on or after January 1, 2024, from approving any a new water right permits or extensions of time for any existing permits resulting
permit that would result in new or increased diversions to surface water storage from the Sacramento River/San Joaquin River watershed until and unless the state board has taken those actions.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 13170.6 is added to the Water Code, to read:13170.6.
(a) The board shall, on or before December 31, 2023, adopt a final update of the 1995 Water Quality Control Plan for the(b) The board shall, on or before December 31, 2023, through regulation or other appropriate implementation methods, implement the
amendments to the Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary adopted by the board pursuant to Resolution No. 2018-0059 on December 12, 2018.
(c) The On or after January 1, 2024, the board shall not approve any a new water right permits or extensions of time for any existing permits resulting
permit that would result in new or
increased diversions to surface water storage from the Sacramento River/San Joaquin River watershed until and unless the board has taken the actions described in subdivisions (a) and (b).
