Bill Text: CA AB478 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Desalination.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-02-01 - Died at Desk. [AB478 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB478-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 478	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Harper

                        FEBRUARY 23, 2015

   An act to amend Section 12947 of the Water Code, relating to water
resources.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 478, as introduced, Harper. Desalination.
   Existing law, the Cobey-Porter Saline Water Conversion Law, states
the policy of this state that desalination projects developed by or
for public water entities be given the same opportunities for state
assistance and funding as other water supply and reliability
projects, and that desalination be consistent with all applicable
environmental protection policies in the state. The law provides that
is it the intention of the Legislature that the Department of Water
Resources shall undertake to find economic and efficient methods of
desalting saline water so that desalted water may be made available
to help meet the growing water requirements of the state.
   This bill would make a nonsubstantive change in these provisions.

   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 12947 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   12947.  (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the growing
water needs of the state require the development of cost effective
and efficient water supply technologies. Desalination technology is
now feasible to help provide significant new water supplies from
seawater, brackish water, and reclaimed water. Desalination
technology can also provide an effective means of treating some types
of contamination in water supplies. Desalination is consistent with
both state water supply and efficiency policy goals, and joint
state-federal environmental and water policy and principles promoted
by the Cal-Fed Bay Delta Program.
   (b) It is the policy of this state that desalination projects
developed by or for public water entities be given the same
opportunities for state assistance and funding as other water supply
and reliability projects, and that desalination be consistent with
all applicable environmental protection policies in the state.
   (c) It is the  intention   intent  of
the Legislature that the department shall undertake to find economic
and efficient methods of desalting saline water so that desalted
water may be made available to help meet the growing water
requirements of the state.