Bill Text: CA SB471 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water, energy, and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions: planning.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - From Assembly without further action. [SB471 Detail]

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BILL NUMBER: SB 471	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 6, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Pavley

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to  add Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 39950) to
Part 2 of Division 26 of the Health and Safety Code, to  add
Section 75214.5 to the Public Resources Code, and to amend Sections
10537 and 10538 of, and to add Section 79746.5 to, the Water Code,
relating to water.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 471, as amended, Pavley. Water, energy, and reduction of
greenhouse gas emissions: planning. 
   (1) Existing law requires all moneys, except for fines and
penalties, collected by the State Air Resources Board from the
auction or sale of allowances as part of a market-based compliance
mechanism relative to reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, to be
deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. Existing 

   (1) Existing law designates the State Air Resources Board as the
state agency charged with monitoring and regulating sources of
emissions of greenhouse gases. Existing law requires all moneys,
except for fines and penalties, collected by the State Air Resources
Board from the auction or sale of allowances as part of a
market-based compliance mechanism relative to reduction of greenhouse
gas emissions, commonly known as cap and trade revenues, to be
deposited in the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, and to be used, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, for specified purposes.  
   This bill would require the state board, in cooperation with
various other agencies, to develop an emissions inventory of
greenhouse gas emissions from the water system in the state, using
best available data. The bill would provide water recycling,
wastewater treatment, water end-use efficiency, water technology
improvements, best management practices, and other projects that
reduce water system greenhouse gas emissions shall be eligible for
funding from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund. 
    (2)     Existing  law continuously
appropriates specified portions of the annual proceeds in the
Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund to various programs including 20% for
the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program,
administered by the Strategic Growth Council. Existing law specifies
the objectives for the program and identifies categories of projects
eligible for funding under this program.
   This bill would require the council, in implementing these
provisions, to give special consideration to awarding funds to
eligible projects that, in addition to existing objectives and goals,
would also result in reduced  energy use by a water
supplier, an end user of water, or both.   greenhouse
gas emissions by the water system in the state.  
   (2) 
    (3)  The Integrated Regional Water Management Planning
Act authorizes a regional water management group to prepare an
integrated regional water management plan, in accordance with certain
procedures, for the implementation or operation of specified
qualified projects or programs pertaining to water supply, water
quality, or related matters. The act defines "regional projects or
programs" as projects or programs identified in an integrated
regional water management plan that accomplish specified
water-related goals, including an increase in water supplies through
the use of certain means.
   This bill would specifically include projects or programs that
reduce  the greenhouse gas emissions from  energy used to
acquire, transport, treat, or distribute water as a regional project
or program. 
   (3) 
    (4)  Existing law, the Water Quality, Supply, and
Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014, approved by the voters as
Proposition 1 at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election,
authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of
$7,545,000,000 to finance a water quality, supply, and infrastructure
improvement program. The bond act provides that the sum of
$810,000,000 is to be available, upon appropriation by the
Legislature, for expenditures on, and competitive grants and loans
to, projects that are included in and implemented in, an adopted
integrated regional water management plan and respond to climate
change and contribute to regional water security. The bond act
authorizes the use of $100,000,000 of those funds for direct
expenditures, and for grants and loans, for certain water
conservation and water-use efficiency plans, projects, and programs.
   This bill, in implementing the direct expenditures, grants, and
loans for these water conservation and water-use efficiency plans,
projects, and programs, would require special consideration be given
to expenditures, grants, and loans that would result in reduced
 energy use by the water supplier, end user of the water, or
both.   greenhouse gas emissions.  
   (4) 
    (5)  The bill would make legislative findings and
declarations, and a statement of legislative intent, with regard to
the nexus between water and energy and water and reduction of
greenhouse gas emissions. 
   (5) The bill would also state the intent of the Legislature to
enact legislation to require the Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission to update and further refine its 2007 study of
water-related energy use in California, without imposing any new
emissions regulations on affected entities. 
   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.  (a)  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (1) Water and energy resources are inextricably connected. This
relationship is known as the water-energy nexus. 
   (A) Transportation and treatment of water, treatment and disposal
of wastewater, and the energy used to heat and consume water account
for nearly 20 percent of the total electricity and 30 percent of
nonpowerplant-related natural gas consumed in California. 

   (B) Similarly, water is used to turn turbines for hydropower, to
produce steam for thermoelectric power, and to cool equipment by
absorbing the waste heat produced by power generation.  

   (A) The energy used to drive California's water system, including,
but not limited to, the fuels used to power groundwater pumps,
transportation, treatment and disposal systems for water and
wastewater, heating and cooling of water in buildings and other
facilities, and the delivery of water to end users, accounts for
nearly 20 percent of the total electricity usage, 30 percent of
nonpower-related natural gas consumed, and an unknown quantity of
greenhouse gas emissions associated with that energy production.
 
   (B) The water used to drive California's energy system, including,
but not limited to, the water used to turn turbines for hydropower,
to produce steam and cooling systems for thermoelectric power, and to
extract and refine oil and gas, represents a substantial portion of
our state water demand. 
   (C) Consequently, saving water saves energy, and vice versa.

   (2) 
    (D)  Because  of  the 
water-energy nexus, there is also a water-greenhouse gas nexus.
  production of energy often results in the emission of
greenhouse gases, there is substantial potential for emission
reductions in the water system.  
   (A) Production of energy often results in production of greenhouse
gases.  
   (B) Consequently, saving water saves energy and, by extension,
reduces greenhouse gas emissions.  
   (3) 
    (2)  Planning for water use is often conducted without
consideration of energy use or greenhouse gas emissions. Similarly,
planning for energy and reduction of greenhouse gas emissions is
often conducted without consideration of water resources.  
 As a result, local and state agencies may not be identifying
projects that best serve water and energy investments to maximize
greenhouse gas emissions reductions. 
   (b) It is the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this act, to:

   (1) Provide the best available data on the water-energy nexus so
that it may be included in the scoping plan update prepared pursuant
to the California Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006 (Ch. 488,
Stats. 2006).
   (2) More closely integrate the planning for water, energy, and
greenhouse gas emissions.
   (3) Enable opportunities for innovative projects and programs that
reduce the greenhouse gas intensity of our water system  and
the water intensity of our energy system to access eligible funds,
including moneys from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund, the Water
Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014
(Proposition 1), the Electric Program Investment Charge Fund, and
investor-owned utility ratepayer dollars   in order to
access eligible funds  . 
   (c) It is further the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to require the Energy Resources Conservation and
Development Commission to update and further refine its 2007 study of
water-related energy use in California, including source-specific
data, which would be anonymized to the extent necessary to protect
business confidential information or security sensitive information,
and without imposing any new emissions regulations on the entities
with which these water-related energy use emissions are associated.

   SEC. 2.    Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 39950)
is added to Part 2 of Division 26 of the   Health and
Safety Code   , to read:  
      CHAPTER 10.  EMISSIONS FROM THE WATER SYSTEM


   39950.  (a) The state board, in cooperation with the State Energy
Resources Conservation and Development Commission, the Public
Utilities Commission, the State Water Resources Control Board, and
the Department of Water Resources, shall develop an emissions
inventory of greenhouse gas emissions from the water system in the
state, using best available data.
   (b) Water recycling, wastewater treatment, water end-use
efficiency, water technology improvements, best management practices,
and other programs that reduce water system greenhouse gas emissions
shall be eligible for funding from the Greenhouse Gas Reduction
Fund. 
   SEC. 2.   SEC. 3.   Section 75214.5 is
added to the Public Resources Code, to read:
   75214.5.  In implementing the program, the council shall give
special consideration to awarding funds to eligible projects that, in
addition to achieving the objectives identified in Section 75210 and
supporting the goals identified in Section 75214, would also result
in reduced  energy use by a water supplier, an end user of
water, or both.   greenhouse gas emissions by the water
system in the state. 
   SEC. 3.   SEC. 4.   Section 10537 of the
Water Code is amended to read:
   10537.  "Regional projects or programs" means projects or programs
identified in an integrated regional water management plan that
accomplish any of the following:
   (a) Reduce water demand through agricultural and urban water use
efficiency.
   (b) Increase water supplies for any beneficial use through the use
of any of the following, or other, means:
   (1) Groundwater storage and conjunctive water management.
   (2) Desalination.
   (3) Precipitation enhancement.
   (4) Water recycling.
   (5) Regional and local surface storage.
   (6) Water-use efficiency.
   (7) Stormwater management.
   (c) Improve operational efficiency and water supply reliability,
including conveyance facilities, system reoperation, and water
transfers.
   (d) Improve water quality, including drinking water treatment and
distribution, groundwater and aquifer remediation, matching water
quality to water use, wastewater treatment, water pollution
prevention, and management of urban and agricultural runoff.
   (e) Improve resource stewardship, including agricultural lands
stewardship, ecosystem restoration, flood plain management, recharge
area protection, urban land use management, groundwater management,
water-dependent recreation, fishery restoration, including fish
passage improvement, and watershed management.
   (f) Improve flood management through structural and nonstructural
means, or by any other means.
   (g) Reduce  the greenhouse gas emissions from  energy
used to acquire, transport, treat, or distribute water.
   SEC. 4.   SEC. 5.   Section 10538 of the
Water Code is amended to read:
   10538.  "Regional reports or studies" means reports or studies
relating to any of the matters described in subdivisions (a) to (g),
inclusive, of Section 10537, that are identified in an integrated
regional water management plan.
   SEC. 5.  SEC. 6.   Section 79746.5 is
added to the Water Code, to read:
   79746.5.  In implementing Section 79746, special consideration
shall be given to expenditures, grants, and loans that, in addition
to the purposes of Section 79746, would also result in reduced
 energy use by the water supplier, end user of the water, or
both.   greenhouse gas emissions. 
           
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