Bill Text: CA SB1124 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Amended

California Senate Bill 1124 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Bill Title: Public health goal: primary drinking water standard: manganese.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2022-08-11 - August 11 hearing: Held in committee and under submission. [SB1124 Detail]

Download: California-2021-SB1124-Amended.html

Amended IN Senate May 19, 2022

Amended IN Senate March 29, 2022

Amended IN Senate March 14, 2022

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 1124

Introduced by Senator Archuleta

February 16, 2022

An act to add Section 116362 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to drinking water.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1124, as amended, Archuleta. Public health goal: primary drinking water standard: manganese.

The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various responsibilities and duties relating to the regulation of drinking water to protect public health. Existing law requires the state board to adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water that are based upon specified criteria, as provided. Existing law requires the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) to prepare and publish an assessment of the risks to public health posed by each contaminant for which the state board proposes a primary drinking water standard, as provided. Existing law requires the risk assessment to contain an estimate of the level of the contaminant in drinking water that is not anticipated to cause or contribute to adverse health effects, or that does not pose any significant risk to public health, also known as the public health goal for the contaminant. Existing law requires the state board to consider specified criteria when it adopts a primary drinking water standard, including the public health goal for the contaminant published by OEHHA.

This bill would require, on or before July 1, ~~2023,~~ 2025, OEHHA to prepare a public health goal for manganese, as provided. The bill would require the state board, after OEHHA publishes a public health goal for manganese, to adopt a primary drinking water standard for manganese and to establish monitoring requirements for manganese, as specified. The bill would require, on or before January 31, 2024, the state board to consider establishing a notification or response level for manganese that would remain in place until the state board adopts a primary drinking water standard for manganese. The bill would authorize the state board, ~~prior to~~ before adopting a primary drinking water standard for manganese, to continue to provide funding for treatment, source protection, and alternative water supplies, as provided, and to require community water systems to monitor manganese in their source water.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 116362 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

116362.

(a) On or before July 1, ~~2023,~~ 2025, the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment shall prepare and publish, pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 116365, a public health goal for manganese.

(b) After the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment publishes a public health goal for manganese pursuant to subdivision (a), the state board shall do both of the following:

(1) Adopt, pursuant to subdivisions (a) and (b) of Section 116365, a primary drinking water standard for manganese.

(2) Establish appropriate monitoring requirements for manganese that shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

(A) Routine distribution system monitoring.

(B) Distribution system monitoring after flushing activities.

(c) On or before January 31, 2024, the state board shall consider establishing, pursuant to Section 116456, a notification level or response level for manganese that would remain in place until the state board adopts a primary drinking water standard for manganese pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b).

(d) ~~Prior to~~ Before the state board ~~adopting~~ adopts a primary drinking water standard for manganese pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (b), the state board may do both of the following:

(1) Require a community water system, through general or individual orders, to monitor manganese in its source water and within its distribution system.

(2) Continue to provide funding for treatment, source protection, and alternative water supplies. To the extent authorized by the funding source, the state board may use exceedances of the secondary standard for manganese in the source water or within the distribution system of a community water system as a basis to prioritize funding.