Bill Text: CA AB3047 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Water quality: groundwater: monitoring.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-05 - Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. [AB3047 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB3047-Amended.html
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Amended
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May 04, 2020 |
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 3047
| Introduced by Assembly Member Flora |
February 21, 2020 |
An act relating to water quality. to amend Section 10782 of the Water Code, relating to water quality.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 3047, as amended, Flora.
Water quality. quality: groundwater: monitoring.
The Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act establishes a statewide program for the control of the quality of all the waters in the state.
Existing law requires the State Water Resources Control Board to identify and recommend to the Legislature funding options to extend, until January 1, 2024, a specified comprehensive groundwater quality monitoring program.
This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to water quality.
instead require the department to identify and recommend to the Legislature funding options to extend that comprehensive groundwater quality monitoring program indefinitely.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 10782 of the Water Code is amended to read:10782.
(a)(1) Identify and recommend to the Legislature funding options to extend, until January 1, 2024, extend indefinitely the comprehensive monitoring program established in accordance with Section 10781.
(2) Make recommendations to enhance the public accessibility of information on groundwater conditions.
(b) On or before January 1, 2012, the state board, in consultation with the State Department of Public Health, the Department of Water Resources, the Department of Pesticide Regulation, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, and any other agencies as appropriate, shall submit to the Legislature a report that does all of the following:
(1) Identifies communities that rely on contaminated groundwater as a primary source of drinking water.
(2) Identifies in the groundwater sources for the communities described in paragraph (1) the principal contaminants and other constituents of concern, as identified by the state board, affecting that groundwater and contamination levels.
(3) Identifies potential solutions and funding sources to clean up or treat groundwater or to provide alternative water supplies to ensure the provision of safe drinking water to communities identified in paragraph (1).
(c) The state board shall provide an opportunity for public comment on the report required pursuant to subdivision (b), prior to finalizing the report and submitting it to the Legislature.
It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation relating to water quality.
