Bill Text: CA SB633 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Water quality objectives: stormwater.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2)
Status: (Failed) 2018-02-01 - Returned to Secretary of Senate pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [SB633 Detail]
Download: California-2017-SB633-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION
| Senate Bill | No. 633 |
| Introduced by Senator Portantino (Coauthor: Senator Stern) |
February 17, 2017 |
An act to add Section 13241.5 to the Water Code, relating to water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 633, as amended, Portantino.
Water quality objectives: stormwater.
Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, requires each California regional water quality control board to adopt water quality control plans and to establish water quality objectives in those plans, considering certain factors, to ensure the reasonable protection of beneficial uses and the prevention of nuisance.
This bill would require a regional board preparing a water quality control plan for a region having a population in excess of 10 million residents to additionally consider opportunities to convey stormwater to a regional site within the watershed in which the stormwater originated for capture and infiltration and to consider and
balance the opportunity for stormwater capture when determining past and probable future beneficial uses of water, as specified.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Los Angeles region.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 13241.5 is added to the Water Code, to read:13241.5.
(a) In addition to the factors identified in Section 13241 to be considered when establishing water quality objectives, a regional board shall consider opportunities to convey stormwater to a regional site within the watershed in which the stormwater originated for capture and infiltration for the purpose of improving water quality and enhancing local water supply in multiobjective projects. A regional board shall consider(b) This section applies only to a water quality control plan prepared for a region having a population in excess of 10 million residents.
