Bill Text: CA SB555 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Urban retail water suppliers: water loss management.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)

Status: (Passed) 2015-10-09 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 679, Statutes of 2015. [SB555 Detail]

Download: California-2015-SB555-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 555	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 16, 2015
	AMENDED IN SENATE  APRIL 7, 2015

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Wolk
    (   Coauthor:   Senator   Pavley
  ) 

                        FEBRUARY 26, 2015

   An act to add Section 10608.34 to the Water Code, relating to
water.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 555, as amended, Wolk. Urban retail water suppliers: water loss
management.
   Existing law requires the state to achieve a 20% reduction in
urban per capita water use in California by December 31, 2020, and
requires the state to make incremental progress towards this goal by
reducing per capita water use by at least 10% on or before December
31, 2015. Existing law requires each urban retail water supplier to
develop urban water use targets and an interim urban water use
target, in accordance with specified requirements.
   This bill would require each urban retail water supplier, on or
before July 1, 2017, and annually each year thereafter, to 
conduct a   submit a completed and validated  water
loss audit  report for the previous calendar year  as
prescribed by rules adopted by the Department of Water Resources on
or before  July 1, 2016,   January 1, 2017,
 and updated as provided.  This bill would require an
urban retail water supplier to submit a completed and validated water
loss audit report for the previous calendar year to the department,
as specified.  The bill would require the department to post
all validated water loss audit reports on its Internet Web site in a
manner that allows for comparisons across water suppliers and to
make these reports available for public viewing. This bill would
require the department to provide technical assistance to guide urban
retail water suppliers' water loss detection programs. The bill
would require the department, in consultation with the State Water
Resources Control Board, to develop metrics for reporting
year-over-year progress on water loss reduction and would require the
board to adopt rules requiring urban retail water suppliers to meet
performance standards for the volume of water losses.
   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 10608.34 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   10608.34.  (a) (1) On or before  July 1, 2016, 
 January 1, 2017,  the department shall adopt rules for all
of the following:
   (A) The conduct of standardized water loss audits by urban retail
water suppliers in accordance with the method adopted by the American
Water Works Association in the third edition of Water Audits and
Loss Control Programs, Manual M36 and in the Free Water Audit
Software, version 5.0.
   (B) The process for validating a water loss audit report prior to
submitting the report to the department.
   (C) The method and timing of submitting a water loss audit report
to the department.
   (2) The department shall update rules adopted pursuant to
paragraph (1) every five years and no later than six months after the
release of subsequent editions of the American Water Works
Association's Water Audits and Loss Control Programs, Manual M36.
   (b) On or before July 1, 2017, and annually each year thereafter,
each urban retail water supplier shall submit a completed and
validated water loss audit report for the previous calendar year as
prescribed by the department pursuant to subdivision (a).
   (c) Each water loss audit report submitted to the department shall
be accompanied by information, in a form specified by the
department, identifying steps taken in the preceding year to increase
the validity of data entered into the final audit, reduce the volume
of apparent losses, and reduce the volume of real losses.
   (d) At least one of the following employees of an urban retail
water supplier shall attest to each water loss audit report submitted
to the department:
   (1) The chief financial officer.
   (2) The chief engineer.
   (3) The general manager.
   (e) The department shall deem incomplete and return to the urban
retail water supplier any final water loss audit report found by the
department to be incomplete, not validated, unattested, or
incongruent with known characteristics of water system operations. A
water supplier shall resubmit a completed water loss audit report
within 90 days of an audit being returned by the department.
   (f) The department shall post all validated water loss audit
reports on its Internet Web site in a manner that allows for
comparisons across water suppliers. The department shall make the
validated water loss audit reports available for public viewing in a
timely manner after their receipt.
   (g) Using available funds, the department shall provide technical
assistance to guide urban retail water suppliers' water loss
detection programs, including, but not limited to, metering
techniques, pressure management techniques, condition-based
assessment techniques for transmission and distribution pipelines,
utilization of portable and permanent water loss detection devices,
and funding.
   (h) (1) The department, in consultation with the board, shall
develop metrics for reporting year-over-year progress on water loss
reduction.
   (2) On or before July 1, 2020, the board shall adopt rules
requiring urban retail water suppliers to meet performance standards
for the volume of water losses.