Bill Text: CA AB268 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Onsite sewage treatment systems.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 17-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-02-02 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB268 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB268-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 268	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 13, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Gaines
   (Principal coauthors: Assembly Members Logue and Nielsen)
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members  Anderson,   Bill
Berryhill,   Conway,  Cook,  DeVore,  
Garrick,   Gilmore,   Harkey,  Jeffries,
 and Niello   Knight,  Niello, 
 and Villines  )
    (   Coauthors:   Senators   Benoit
  and Cox  ) 

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2009

   An act to repeal Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 13290) of
Division 7 of the Water Code, relating to water quality.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 268, as amended, Gaines. Onsite sewage treatment systems.
   Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, on or
before January 1, 2004, requires the State Water Resources Control
Board, in consultation with others, to adopt regulations or standards
for the permitting and operation of specified onsite sewage
treatment systems. The act requires the board to apply those
regulations or standards to those systems commencing 6 months after
their adoption.
   This bill would repeal those provisions.
   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.    The Legislature finds and declares all
of the following:  
   (a) The onsite sewage treatment system regulatory program will
substantially increase the costs incurred for onsite sewage treatment
systems, with annual cost increases estimated to range from $287
million to $339.7 million, and cumulative costs projected to range
from $1.4 billion to $1.7 billion higher, over the five-year period
from 2009 to 2013. This is an estimated cost increase of 43 percent
to 53 percent.  
   (b) Households are projected to incur the largest share of these
increased costs, but businesses are projected to experience a larger
percentage increase in costs, with costs increasing by more than 800
percent over this period.  
   (c) The benefits of the onsite sewage treatment system regulatory
program are not worth the cost. 
   SECTION 1.   SEC. 2.   Chapter 4.5
(commencing with Section 13290) of Division 7 of the Water Code is
repealed.