Bill Text: CA SB52 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Environmental quality: jobs and economic improvement.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-06-27 - Re-referred to Com. on J., E.D. & E. [SB52 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB52-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 52	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Steinberg

                        DECEMBER 15, 2010

   An act relating to water, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 52, as introduced, Steinberg. Water quality: Sacramento
Regional County Sanitation District.
   The Disaster Preparedness and Flood Prevention Bond Act of 2006, a
bond act approved by the voters at the November 7, 2006, statewide
general election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of
$4,090,000,000 for the purposes of financing disaster preparedness
and flood prevention projects. Of those funds, $300,000,000 is
available to the Department of Water Resources, upon appropriation by
the Legislature, for grants for storm water flood management
projects that meet prescribed requirements.
   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 at the November 7, 2006, statewide general
election, authorizes the issuance of bonds in the amount of
$5,388,000,000 for the purposes of financing a safe drinking water,
water quality and supply, flood control, and resource protection
program. Of those funds, $130,000,000 is available to the department
for grants to implement water quality improvement projects that meet
prescribed requirements.
   This bill would appropriate $50,000,000 to the department from the
above bond acts, as specified, to provide financial assistance to
the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District to offset rate
increases associated with the costs of capital improvements to the
district's regional sewage treatment plant as a result of the
issuance of a specified national pollutant discharge elimination
system permit and waste discharge requirements.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares that the costs of
improving water quality and protecting the beneficial uses of water
in the area known as the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are a shared
responsibility that should be borne by all beneficiaries of water
resources from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and not solely by
businesses and residents of the Sacramento region. To that end, it is
the intent of the Legislature, in enacting this act, to appropriate
funds for the purpose of financing improvements to the Sacramento
Regional County Sanitation District regional sewage treatment plant.
  SEC. 2.  The sum of fifty million dollars ($50,000,000) is hereby
appropriated to the Department of Water Resources to provide
financial assistance to the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation
District to offset rate increases associated with the costs of
capital improvements to the district's regional sewage treatment
plant as a result of the issuance of a national pollutant discharge
elimination system permit and waste discharge requirements for the
regional sewage treatment plant that were adopted by the California
Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Region, on
December 9, 2010, in accordance with the following schedule:
   (a) Thirteen million dollars ($13,000,000) from the funds made
available pursuant to Section 5096.827 of the Public Resources Code
for a grant to the Sacramento Regional County Sanitation District for
the purposes of this section.
   (b) Thirty-seven million dollars ($37,000,000) from the funds made
available pursuant to, and consistent with, Section 75029 of the
Public Resources Code for a grant to the Sacramento Regional County
Sanitation District for the purposes of this section.