Bill Text: CA SB1328 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water delivery projects: reduction of greenhouse gas emissions: funding.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Vetoed) 2016-11-30 - Last day to consider Governor's veto pursuant to Joint Rule 58.5. [SB1328 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB1328-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 1328	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 25, 2016
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 28, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Lara

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to add Section 10566 to the Water Code, relating to
stormwater.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1328, as amended, Lara. Stormwater capture and treatment
projects: funding.
   The Stormwater Resource Planning Act authorizes one or more public
agencies to develop a stormwater resource plan that meets specified
standards to address the capture, treatment, and storage of
stormwater, as defined, and dry weather runoff, as defined. The act
requires the State Water Resources Control Board, by July 1, 2016, to
establish guidance for these purposes.
   The California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 designates the
State Air Resources Board as the state agency charged with
monitoring and regulating sources of emissions of greenhouse gases.
The act requires the state board to adopt a statewide greenhouse gas
emissions limit and to adopt rules and regulations to achieve the
maximum technologically feasible and cost-effective greenhouse gas
emissions reductions, and authorizes the state board to implement a
system of market-based compliance mechanisms to reduce greenhouse gas
emissions in the state. Existing law requires that all moneys,
except for fines and penalties, collected by the state board from the
auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance
mechanism be deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund and be
available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes
relating to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
   This bill would authorize the State Water Resources Control Board
to expend moneys from the fund, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, to provide grants to public entities to implement
stormwater and dry weather runoff collection and treatment projects
that are intended to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by decreasing
the demand for electricity needed to pump, transport, and deliver
water from natural sources to serve water consumers, as prescribed.
   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.  Section 10566 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   10566.  (a) Moneys in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, created
pursuant to Section 16428.8 of the Government Code, may be used by
the board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to provide grants
to public entities to implement stormwater and dry weather runoff
collection and treatment projects that are intended to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions by decreasing the demand for electricity
needed to pump, transport, and deliver water from natural sources,
including, but not limited to, through water conveyance projects, to
serve water consumers.
   (b) Eligible projects may include, but are not limited to, green
infrastructure, rainwater, stormwater, and dry weather runoff capture
projects, and stormwater treatment facilities. Grant funds may be
used for all phases of planning, design, and project construction and
implementation, including feasibility studies, design development
and consultations, and related administrative costs.
   (c) In accordance with subdivision (d), the board shall establish
criteria for funding projects and determining which public entities
shall receive a grant, based on both of the following:
   (1) Demonstration that the project will reduce greenhouse gas
emissions and the extent to which the project will yield a reduction
in greenhouse gas emissions by reducing the need for electric pumps
and other equipment used to pump, transport, and deliver water to
consumers from natural sources.
   (2) Geographic conditions that facilitate stormwater and dry
weather runoff collection.
   (d) In awarding grants, the board shall give preference to
projects proposed to be located in, and that will provide benefits
to, disadvantaged communities.
   (e) The board shall provide technical assistance to grant
applicants, including, but not limited to, calculations of the
projected reductions of greenhouse gas emissions. 
   (f) In implementing this section, the board may use or adapt the
guidelines the board developed to implement the Storm Water Grant
Program, which is funded in accordance with the Water Quality,
Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014 (Division 26.7
(commencing with Section 79700)).  
   (f) 
    (g)  For purposes of this section, a "disadvantaged
community" means a community identified pursuant to Section 39711 of
the Health and Safety Code.