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Bill Text - SB-101 Drinking water.
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SB-101 Drinking water.(2019-2020)
Date Published: 06/21/2019 04:20 PM
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An act relating to the Budget Act of 2019. An act to add Section 53082.6 to the Government Code, to amend Sections 39719, 100827, 116275, 116385, 116530, 116540, and 116686 of, and to add Chapter 4.6 (commencing with Section 116765) to Part 12 of Division 104 of, the Health and Safety Code, and to add Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8390) to Division 4.1 of the Public Utilities Code, relating to drinking water, and making an appropriation therefor, to take effect immediately, bill related to the budget.
SB 101, as amended, Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review. Budget Act of 2019. Drinking water.
This bill would establish the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund in the State Treasury to help water systems provide an adequate and affordable supply of safe drinking water in both the near and the long terms. The bill would authorize the state board to provide for the deposit into the fund of federal contributions, voluntary contributions, gifts, grants, bequests, and moneys from other specified sources, and would continuously appropriate the moneys in the fund to the state board for grants, loans, contracts, or services to assist eligible recipients. The bill would require the state board to adopt a fund expenditure plan with specified contents and would require, on and after July 1, 2020, expenditures of the fund to be consistent with the plan. The bill would require, by January 1, 2021, the state board, in consultation with local health officers and other relevant stakeholders, to make publicly available, as specified, a map of aquifers that are used or likely to be used as a source of drinking water that are at high risk of containing contaminants that exceed safe drinking water standards. For purposes of the map, the bill would require local health officers and other relevant local agencies to provide all results of, and data associated with, water quality testing performed by certified laboratories to the state board, as specified. By imposing additional duties on local health officers and local agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The act provides for the operation of public water systems and authorizes the state board to contract with, or provide a grant to, an administrator to provide administrative, technical, operational, or managerial services, or any combination of those services, to a designated water system to assist with the provision of an adequate supply of affordable, safe drinking water.
This bill would, among other things, authorize an administrator to additionally provide legal services pursuant to those provisions and to act, where the administrator is authorized to act on behalf of a designated public water system, on behalf of a voluntary participant, as defined. The bill would authorize a local agency or a privately owned public utility to serve as an administrator for these purposes.
This bill would revise that definition to require a median household income of less than 80% of the statewide median household income level.
This bill would require a laboratory accredited by the state board to also report the results of each drinking water analysis to the state board in the form or format and at intervals specified by the state board.
(1) Beginning in the 2015–16 fiscal year, and notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, 35 percent of the annual proceeds of the fund are continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, for transit, affordable housing, and sustainable communities programs as following: follows:
(B) Five percent of the annual proceeds of the fund is hereby continuously appropriated to the Low Carbon Transit Operations Program created by Part 3 (commencing with Section 75230) of Division 44 of the Public Resources Code. Funds Moneys shall be allocated by the Controller, according to requirements of the program, and pursuant to the distribution formula in subdivision (b) or (c) of Section 99312 of, and Sections 99313 and 99314 of, the Public Utilities Code.
(C) Twenty percent of the annual proceeds of the fund is hereby continuously appropriated to the Strategic Growth Council for the Affordable Housing and Sustainable Communities Program created by Part 1 (commencing with Section 75200) of Division 44 of the Public Resources Code. Of the amount appropriated in this subparagraph, no less than 10 percent of the annual proceeds, proceeds of the fund shall be expended for affordable housing, consistent with the provisions of that program.
(3) (A) Beginning in the 2020–21 fiscal year, and until June 30, 2030, 5 percent of the annual proceeds of the fund, up to the sum of one hundred thirty million dollars ($130,000,000), is hereby annually transferred to the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund established pursuant to Section 116765 for the purposes of Chapter 4.6 (commencing with Section 116765) of Part 12 of Division 104.
(a) A laboratory accredited by the department state board shall report, in a timely fashion and in accordance with the request for analysis, the full and complete results of all detected contaminants and pollutants to the person or entity that submitted the material for testing. The department state board may adopt regulations to establish reporting requirements for this section.
(aa) “Disadvantaged community” means the entire service area of a community water system, or a community therein, in which the median household income is less than 80 percent of the statewide average. annual median household income level.
Any person operating a public water system shall obtain and provide at that person’s expense an analysis of the water to the department, state board, in the form, covering those matters, and at intervals as the department state board by regulation may prescribe. The analysis shall be performed by a laboratory duly certified by the department. state board.
(a) A public water system shall submit a technical report to the department state board as part of the permit application or when otherwise required by the department. state board. This report may include, but not be limited to, detailed plans and specifications, water quality information, and physical descriptions of the existing or proposed system, information related to technical, managerial, and financial assurance information. capacity and sustainability, and information related to achieving the goals of Section 106.3 of the Water Code, including affordability and accessibility.
(d) If the state board determines that it is feasible for the service area of the public water system addressed by an application under this article to be served by one or more permitted public water systems identified pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (c) of Section 116527, the state board may deny the permit of a proposed new public water system if it determines, based on its assessment of the preliminary technical report submitted pursuant to Section 116527, the permit application, and other relevant, substantial evidence submitted, that it is reasonably foreseeable that the proposed new public water system will be unable to provide affordable, safe drinking water in the reasonably foreseeable future. system.
(a) (1) To provide an adequate supply of affordable, safe drinking water to disadvantaged communities communities, voluntary participants, and public water systems that have demonstrated difficulty in maintaining technical, managerial, and financial capacity and to prevent fraud, waste, and abuse, the state board may do any of the following, if sufficient funding is available:
(A) (i) Contract with, or provide a grant to, an administrator to provide administrative, technical, operational, legal, or managerial services, or any combination of those services, to a designated water system to assist the designated water system with the provision of an adequate supply of affordable, safe drinking water. water, which may include steps necessary to enable consolidation.
(b) Before Unless the state board determines has already held a public meeting pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 116682, the state board shall do all of the following to determine that a public water system or state small water system is a designated water system, the state board shall do all of the following: system:
(1) Expend available moneys for capital infrastructure improvements that the designated water system needs to provide an adequate supply of affordable, safe drinking water. water or to execute a consolidation ordered pursuant to Section 116682.
(g) Before ordering a designated water system to accept administrative, technical, operational, legal, or managerial services from an administrator pursuant to subdivision (a), the state board shall develop standards, terms, and procedures in a policy handbook adopted consistent with the process provided for in subdivision (a) of Section 116760.43 for all of the following:
(1) “Administrator” means a person whom the state board has determined is competent to perform the administrative, technical, operational, legal, or managerial services required for purposes of this section, pursuant to criteria set forth in the policy handbook adopted pursuant to subdivision (g). Notwithstanding any other law, a privately owned public utility may serve as an administrator for purposes of this section.
(2) “Designated water system” means a public water system or state small water system that serves a disadvantaged community, as defined in has been ordered to consolidate pursuant to Section 116681, 116682 or that serves a disadvantaged community, and that the state board finds consistently fails to provide an adequate supply of affordable, safe drinking water.
(3) “Domestic well” has the same meaning as defined in Section 116766.
Article 1. Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund
(b) Moneys in the fund may be expended to address drinking water contamination from contaminants that may violate secondary drinking water standards or other contamination that may not exceed a current safe drinking water standard.
(c) Consistent with subdivision (a), the board shall expend moneys in the fund for grants, loans, contracts, or services to assist eligible recipients.
(d) (1) Eligible recipients of funding under this chapter are public agencies, nonprofit organizations, public utilities, mutual water companies, federally recognized California Native American tribes, nonfederally recognized Native American tribes on the contact list maintained by the Native American Heritage Commission for the purposes of Chapter 905 of the Statutes of 2004, administrators, and groundwater sustainability agencies.
(e) On and after July 1, 2020, an expenditure from the fund shall be consistent with the fund expenditure plan, as provided in Article 3 (commencing with Section 116767).
(f) The board may expend moneys from the fund for reasonable costs associated with the administration of this chapter, not to exceed 5 percent of the annual deposits into the fund.
(g) In administering the fund, the board shall make reasonable efforts to ensure that funds are used to secure the long-term sustainability of drinking water service and infrastructure, including, but not limited to, requiring adequate technical, managerial, and financial capacity of eligible applicants as part of funding agreement outcomes.
(h) Beginning in the 2023–24 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter until June 30, 2030, if the annual transfer to the fund pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (b) of Section 39719 is less than one hundred thirty million dollars ($130,000,000), on an annual basis the Director of Finance shall calculate a sum equivalent to the difference, up to one hundred thirty million dollars ($130,000,000), and the Controller shall transfer that sum from the General Fund to the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund. This subdivision is operative only while a market-based compliance mechanism adopted pursuant to Section 38562 is operative.
(h) “Fund” means the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund established pursuant to Section 116765.
(i) “Fund expenditure plan” means the fund expenditure plan adopted pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 116767).
Article 3. Fund Expenditure Plan
(1) A requirement that the board consult with an advisory group to aid in meeting the purposes of the fund expenditure plan as established in Section 116767. The advisory group shall include representatives of the following:
(A) Entities paying into the fund.
(B) Public water systems.
(C) Technical assistance providers.
(D) Local agencies.
(E) Nongovernmental organizations.
(F) Residents served by community water systems in disadvantaged communities, state small water systems, and domestic wells.
(G) The public.
(b) The board shall annually adopt a fund expenditure plan.
(c) On or before January 10, 2021, and every January 10 thereafter, the board shall provide to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee and the chairpersons of the fiscal committees in each house of the Legislature the most recently adopted fund expenditure plan. The board may submit the fund expenditure plan as required by this subdivision either in the Governor’s Budget documents or as a separate report.
(4) An estimate of the number of households that are served by domestic wells or state small water systems in high-risk areas identified pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 116772). The estimate shall identify approximate locations of households, without identifying exact addresses or other personal information, in order to identify potential target areas for outreach and assistance programs.
(b) The fund expenditure plan shall be based on data and analysis drawn from drinking water needs assessments, including, but not limited to, the assessment funded by Chapter 449 of the Statutes of 2018 as that assessment may be updated and as information is developed pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 116772).
(d) Testing the drinking water quality of domestic wells serving low-income households, prioritizing those in high-risk areas identified pursuant to Article 5 (commencing with Section 116772).
(C) Financial participation by public agencies in the activities authorized for funding from the fund.
(D) Settlements from parties responsible for contamination of drinking water supplies.
(2) Enter into agreements with federal, state, or local agencies, private corporations, or nonprofit organizations to participate in the activities authorized for funding from the fund or to contribute to the fund.
(3) Direct moneys described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) towards a specific project, program, or study.
(4) Take additional action as may be appropriate for adequate administration and operation of the fund.
(c) Actions taken to implement, interpret, or make specific this chapter, including, but not limited to, the adoption or development of any plan or map, are not subject to the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code).
(b) Participation in activities authorized for funding from the fund or contributions to the fund by federal, state, or local agencies shall be deemed to serve the public purpose of maintaining the statewide safe drinking water system, and shall not be construed as a gift of public funds within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.
(c) This chapter does not relieve the board or the Attorney General of the duty to enforce the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, the federal Clean Water Act, and the federal and state Safe Drinking Water Acts and does not relieve polluters of responsibility or liability for contamination of the state’s drinking water sources.
Article 5. Information on High-Risk Areas
(a) Funds appropriated by Item 3940-102-0001 and Item 3940-102-3228 of the Budget Act of 2019 shall be available for purposes outlined in Chapter 4.6 (commencing with Section 116765) of Part 12 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code.