Bill Text: CA AB1797 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: State Water Resources Development System: Delta

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2010-05-28 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Held under submission. [AB1797 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB1797-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1797	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 7, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Bill Berryhill

                        FEBRUARY 10, 2010

   An act to add Section 148 to the Water Code, relating to the State
Water Resources Development System  , and making an
appropriation therefor  .



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1797, as amended, Bill Berryhill. State Water Resources
Development System: Delta Corridors Plan. 
   Under 
    (1)     Under  existing law, the
Department of Water Resources operates the State Water Resources
Development System that includes dams, reservoirs, and other
infrastructure.
   This bill would require the department to undertake an expedited
evaluation and feasibility study with regard to the implementation of
a specified Delta Corridors Plan as part of the State Water
Resources Development System.  The bill would require the
department to consult with the Department of Fish and Game to study
specified impacts and benefits of the Delta Corridors Plan and 
 to include in the study an assessment of the incorporation of
the Two-Gates Fish Demonstration Project managed by the United States
Bureau of Reclamation into the Delta Corridors Plan.  The
department would be required to prepare and submit to the
Legislature, on or before January 1, 2012, a report that includes its
feasibility findings. If the department determines the
implementation of the plan is feasible, the department would be
required to include recommendations with regard to specific
facilities to be constructed, and to identify potential funding
sources, for the purposes of implementing the plan. 
   (2) Existing law, the Safe Drinking Water, Water Quality and
Supply, Flood Control, River and Coastal Protection Bond Act of 2006,
an initiative bond act approved by the voters as Proposition 84 at
the November 7, 2006, statewide general election, authorizes the
issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $5,388,000,000,
of which $65,000,000 is made available to the department, upon
appropriation by the Legislature, for planning and feasibility
studies relating to the existing and potential future needs for
California's water supply, conveyance, and flood control systems.
 
   This bill would appropriate $750,000 of these funds to the
department to pay the costs of the feasibility study required by this
bill. 
   Vote: majority. Appropriation:  no   yes
 . Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 148 is added to the Water Code, to read:
   148.  (a) The department shall undertake an expedited evaluation
and feasibility study with regard to the implementation of a
through-Delta conveyance plan referred to as the Delta Corridors
Plan, as part of the State Water Resources Development System. For
the purposes of this section, the "Delta Corridors Plan" means the
plan described in the document entitled "Proposal to Reconnect the
San Joaquin River to the Estuary," dated March 23, 2007. 
   (b) The department, in conducting the study required pursuant to
subdivision (a), shall consult with the Department of Fish and Game
to study the potential environmental and ecological impacts and
benefits of the Delta Corridors Plan, including issues of water
quality and fish entrainment.  
   (c) The study required pursuant to subdivision (a) shall include
an evaluation of ways the Delta Corridors Plan could incorporate the
Two-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project managed by the United
States Bureau of Reclamation and shall assess the potential impacts
and benefits of operating that project in conjunction with the Delta
Corridors Plan.  
   (b) 
    (d)  On or before January 1, 2012, the department shall
prepare and submit to the Legislature a report that includes its
findings pursuant to subdivision (a). If the department determines
that the implementation of the plan described in subdivision (a) is
feasible, the department shall include in the report recommendations
with regard to specific facilities to be constructed, and shall
identify potential funding sources, for the purposes of implementing
the plan. 
   (e) (1) The requirement for submitting a report imposed under
subdivision (e) is inoperative on January 1, 2016, pursuant to
Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.  
   (2) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (d) shall be
submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

   SEC. 2.    Pursuant to Section 75041 of the Public
Resources Code, the sum of seven hundred fifty thousand dollars
($750,000) is hereby appropriated to the Department of Water
Resources for expenditure by the department to pay the costs of the
feasibility study required by Section 148 of the Water Code. 
   SEC. 2.   SEC. 3.   This act shall be
known, and may be cited, as the Clean Water Pathways Act.