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CA Health & Safety Code § 116761.65 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|PART 12 - DRINKING WATER|CHAPTER 4.5 - Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law of 1997|ARTICLE 7 - Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Management|Section 116761.65.

116761.65.  (a) The board shall establish, and may periodically adjust, the interest rate for repayable financing made pursuant to this chapter at a rate not to exceed 50 percent of the average interest rate, computed by the true interest cost method, paid by the state on general obligation bonds issued in the prior calendar year, rounded up to the closest one-tenth of 1 percent.(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), if the financing is for a public water system that serves a disadvantaged community with a financial hardship as determined by the board or if the financing is for a public water system that provides matching funds, the interest rate shall be 0 percent.(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 673, Sec. 16. (AB 1531) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 116761.70 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|PART 12 - DRINKING WATER|CHAPTER 4.5 - Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law of 1997|ARTICLE 7 - Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Management|Section 116761.70.

116761.70.  (a) The Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Administration Fund is hereby created in the State Treasury.(b) The following moneys shall be deposited into the administration fund:(1) Moneys transferred to pay the costs incurred by the state board in connection with the administration of this chapter.(2) The amounts collected for financial assistance services pursuant to subdivision (c).(3) Notwithstanding Section 16475 of the Government Code, any interest earned upon the moneys in the fund.(c) (1) For financial assistance made pursuant to this chapter, where that financial assistance is to be repaid to the state board, the state board may assess an annual charge for financial assistance services with regard to the financial assistance, not to exceed 1 percent of the financial assistance balance, computed according to the true interest cost method.(2) The financial assistance service rate authorized by this subdivision may be applied at any time during the term of the financial assistance, and once applied, shall remain unchanged for the duration of the financial assistance and shall not increase the financial assistance repayment amount, as set forth in the terms and conditions imposed pursuant to this chapter.(d) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, moneys in the administration fund may be expended by the state board for payment of the reasonable costs of administering the fund.(e) The state board shall set the total amount of revenue collected each year through the charge authorized by subdivision (c) at an amount that is equal as practicable to the appropriation amount set forth in the annual Budget Act for this activity. At least once each fiscal year, the state board shall adjust the financial assistance service charge imposed pursuant to subdivision (c) to conform with the appropriation amount set forth in the annual Budget Act.(Repealed and added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 673, Sec. 18. (AB 1531) Effective January 1, 2016.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 116761.85 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|PART 12 - DRINKING WATER|CHAPTER 4.5 - Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law of 1997|ARTICLE 7 - Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Management|Section 116761.85.

116761.85.  (a) Moneys repaid to the state pursuant to any contract executed pursuant to this chapter, including interest payments and all interest earned on or accruing to any moneys in the fund, shall be deposited in the fund and shall be available in perpetuity, for expenditure for the purposes and uses permitted by this chapter and the federal act.(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2014.(Repealed (in Sec. 121) and added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 35, Sec. 122. (SB 861) Effective June 20, 2014. Section operative July 1, 2014, by its own provisions.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 116761.86 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|PART 12 - DRINKING WATER|CHAPTER 4.5 - Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law of 1997|ARTICLE 7 - Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Management|Section 116761.86.

116761.86.  To the extent amounts in the fund are not required for current obligation or expenditure, those amounts shall be invested in interest bearing obligations, and the interest earned shall become part of the fund.(Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 734, Sec. 15. Effective October 7, 1997.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 116762.60 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|PART 12 - DRINKING WATER|CHAPTER 4.5 - Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund Law of 1997|ARTICLE 8 - Source Water Protection Program|Section 116762.60.

116762.60.  (a) The board shall, contingent upon receiving federal capitalization grant funds, develop and implement a program to protect sources of drinking water. In carrying out this program, the board shall coordinate with local, state, and federal agencies that have public health and environmental management programs to ensure an effective implementation of the program while avoiding duplication of effort and reducing program costs. The program shall include all of the following:(1) A source water assessment program to delineate and assess the drinking water supplies of public drinking water systems pursuant to Section 1453 of the federal act.(2) A wellhead protection program to protect drinking water wells from contamination pursuant to Section 1428 of the federal act.(3) Pursuant to Section 1452(k) of the federal act, the board shall set aside federal capitalization grant funds sufficient to carry out paragraphs (1) and (2).(b) The board shall set aside federal capitalization grant funds to provide assistance to water systems pursuant to Section 1452(k) of the federal act for the following source water protection activities, to the extent that those activities are proposed:(1) To acquire land or a conservation easement if the purpose of the acquisition is to protect the source water of the system from contamination and to ensure compliance with primary drinking water regulations.(2) To implement local, voluntary source water protection measures to protect source water in areas delineated pursuant to Section 1453 of the federal act, in order to facilitate compliance with primary drinking water regulations applicable to the water system under Section 1412 of the federal act or otherwise significantly further the health protection objectives of the federal and state acts.(3) To carry out a voluntary, incentive-based source water quality protection partnership pursuant to Section 1454 of the federal act.(c) The board shall post a report to its Internet Web site, every two years, on its activities under this section. The report shall contain a description of each program for which funds have been set aside under this section, the effectiveness of each program in carrying out the intent of the federal and state acts, and an accounting of the amount of set-aside funds used.(d) This section shall become operative on January 1 of the next calendar year occurring after the board provides notice to the Legislature and the Secretary of State and posts notice on its Internet Web site that the board has adopted a policy handbook pursuant to Section 116760.43.(Repealed (in Sec. 124) and added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 35, Sec. 125. (SB 861) Effective June 20, 2014. Section became operative on January 1, 2015, pursuant to its own provisions.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 116767 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|PART 12 - DRINKING WATER|CHAPTER 4.6 - Safe and Affordable Drinking Water|ARTICLE 3 - Definitions|Section 116767.

116767.  For purposes of this chapter:(a) “Adequate supply” has the same meaning as defined in Section 116681.(b) “Administrator” has the same meaning as defined in Section 116686.(c) “Board” means the State Water Resources Control Board.(d) “Community water system” has the same meaning as defined in Section 116275.(e) “Consistently fails” has the same meaning as defined in Section 116681.(f) “Disadvantaged community” has the same meaning as defined in Section 79505.5 of the Water Code.(g) “Domestic well” has the same meaning as defined in Section 116681.(h) “Fund” means the Safe and Affordable Drinking Water Fund established pursuant to Section 116766.(i) “Fund expenditure plan” means the fund expenditure plan adopted by the board pursuant to Article 4 (commencing with Section 116768).(j) “Groundwater sustainability agency” has the same meaning as defined in Section 10721 of the Water Code.(k) “Low-income household” means a single household with an income that is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty level, as updated periodically in the Federal Register by the United States Department of Health and Human Services under authority of Section 9902(2) of Title 42 of the United States Code.(l) “Mutual water company” means a mutual water company, as described in Section 14300 of the Corporations Code, that operates a public water system or a state small water system.(m) “Nonprofit organization” means an organization qualified to do business in California and qualified under Section 501(c)(3) of Title 26 of the United States Code.(n) “Public agency” means a state agency or department, special district, joint powers authority, city, county, city and county, or other political subdivision of the state.(o) “Public utility” has the same meaning as defined in Section 216 of the Public Utilities Code.(p) “Public water system” has the same meaning as defined in Section 116275.(q) “Replacement water” includes, but is not limited to, bottled water, vended water, point-of-use, or point-of-entry treatment units.(r) “Safe drinking water” has the same meaning as defined in Section 116681.(s) “Service connection” has the same meaning as defined in Section 116275.(t) “State small water system” has the same meaning as defined in Section 116275.(u) “Technical assistance provider” means a person whom the state board has determined is competent to assist a water system by providing administrative, technical, operational, legal, or managerial services to meet the purposes of this section, pursuant to criteria set forth in the policy adopted by the state board pursuant to Section 116768.5 and the fund expenditure plan. A privately owned public utility may serve as a technical assistance provider for purposes of this section. (v) “Vended water” has the same meaning as defined in Section 111070.(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 258, Sec. 18. (SB 155) Effective September 23, 2021.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 116768 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|PART 12 - DRINKING WATER|CHAPTER 4.6 - Safe and Affordable Drinking Water|ARTICLE 4 - Fund Expenditure Plan|Section 116768.

116768.  The purposes of the fund expenditure plan are as follows:(a) To identify public water systems, community water systems, and state small water systems that consistently fail to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water, including the cause or causes of the failure and appropriate measures to remedy the failure.(b) To determine the amount and type of funding necessary to implement appropriate measures to remedy a failure to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water.(c) To identify public water systems, community water systems, and state small water systems that are at significant risk of failing to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water, including the source or sources of the risk and appropriate measures to eliminate the risk.(d) To determine the amount and type of funding necessary to implement appropriate measures to eliminate the risk of failing to provide an adequate supply of safe drinking water.(e) To identify gaps in the provision of safe drinking water, in furtherance of Section 106.3 of the Water Code, and to determine the amount and type of funding necessary to minimize or eliminate those gaps.(Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 120, Sec. 9. (SB 200) Effective July 24, 2019.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 116768.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|PART 12 - DRINKING WATER|CHAPTER 4.6 - Safe and Affordable Drinking Water|ARTICLE 4 - Fund Expenditure Plan|Section 116768.5.

116768.5.  (a) On or before July 1, 2020, the board shall develop and adopt a policy for developing the fund expenditure plan that includes all of the following elements:(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 116768. The advisory group shall include representatives of the following:(A) Public water systems.(B) Technical assistance providers.(C) Local agencies.(D) Nongovernmental organizations.(E) Residents served by community water systems in disadvantaged communities, state small water systems, and domestic wells.(F) The public.(2) Identification of key terms, criteria, and metrics, and their definitions.(3) A description of how proposed remedies will be identified, evaluated, prioritized, and included in the fund expenditure plan.(4) The establishment of a process by which members of a disadvantaged community may petition the board to consider ordering consolidation.(5) A requirement that the board hold at least one public hearing before adopting a fund expenditure plan.(b) The board, in consultation with the Department of Finance, shall annually adopt a fund expenditure plan. The board shall adopt a handbook and may update it at least once every three years.(c) On or before March 1, 2021, and every March 1 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.(Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 120, Sec. 9. (SB 200) Effective July 24, 2019.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 116770 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|PART 12 - DRINKING WATER|CHAPTER 4.6 - Safe and Affordable Drinking Water|ARTICLE 4 - Fund Expenditure Plan|Section 116770.

116770.  The fund expenditure plan may include expenditures for the following:(a) The provision of replacement water, as needed, to ensure immediate protection of health and safety as a short-term solution.(b) The development, implementation, and sustainability of long-term drinking water solutions, including, but not limited to, the following:(1) (A) Technical assistance, planning, construction, repair, and operation and maintenance costs associated with any of the following:(i) Replacing, blending, or treating contaminated drinking water.(ii) Repairing or replacing failing water system equipment, pipes, or fixtures.(iii) Operation and maintenance costs associated with consolidated water systems, extended drinking water services, or reliance on a substituted drinking water source.(B) Technical assistance and planning costs may include, but are not limited to, analyses to identify and efforts to further opportunities to reduce the unit cost of providing drinking water through organizational and operational efficiency improvements, and other options and approaches to reduce costs.(2) Creating and maintaining natural means and green infrastructure solutions that contribute to sustainable drinking water.(3) Consolidating water systems.(4) Extending drinking water services to other public water systems, community water systems, state small water systems, or domestic wells.(5) Satisfying outstanding long-term debt obligations of public water systems, community water systems, and state small water systems where the board determines that a system’s lack of access to capital markets renders this solution the most cost effective for removing a financial barrier to the system’s sustainable, long-term provision of drinking water.(c) Identifying and providing outreach to persons who are eligible to receive assistance from the fund.(d) Testing the drinking water quality of domestic wells serving low-income households, prioritizing those in high-risk areas identified pursuant to Article 6 (commencing with Section 116772).(e) Providing services under Section 116686.(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 370, Sec. 211. (SB 1371) Effective January 1, 2021.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 116771 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|PART 12 - DRINKING WATER|CHAPTER 4.6 - Safe and Affordable Drinking Water|ARTICLE 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 116771.

116771.  (a) The board may undertake any of the following actions to implement the fund:(1) Provide for the deposit of any of the following moneys into the fund:(A) Federal contributions.(B) Voluntary contributions, gifts, grants, or bequests.(C) Financial participation by a public agency in an activity authorized for funding from the fund.(2) Enter into agreements for contributions to the fund from the federal government, local or state agencies, and private corporations or nonprofit organizations.(3) Direct portions of the fund to a subset of eligible applicants as required or appropriate based on funding source and consistent with the annual fund expenditure plan.(4) Direct moneys described in subparagraph (B) of paragraph (1) towards a specific project, program, or study.(5) Take additional action as may be appropriate for adequate administration and operation of the fund.(b) The board may set appropriate requirements as a condition of funding, including, but not limited to, the following:(1) A system technical, managerial, or financial capacity audit.(2) Improvements to reduce costs and increase efficiencies.(3) An evaluation of alternative treatment technologies.(4) A consolidation or service extension feasibility study.(5) Requirements for a domestic well with nitrate contamination where ongoing septic system failure may be causing or contributing to contamination of a drinking water source to have conducted an investigation and project to address the septic system failure, if adequate funding sources are identified and accessible.(c) Actions taken to implement, interpret, or make specific this chapter, including, but not limited to, the adoption or development of any plan, handbook, 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).(Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 120, Sec. 9. (SB 200) Effective July 24, 2019.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 116771.5 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|PART 12 - DRINKING WATER|CHAPTER 4.6 - Safe and Affordable Drinking Water|ARTICLE 5 - Miscellaneous Provisions|Section 116771.5.

116771.5.  (a) This chapter does not expand any obligation of the state to provide resources for the provisions of this article or to require the expenditure of additional resources beyond the amount of moneys deposited in the fund.(b) The Legislature finds and declares that participation in an activity authorized for funding from the fund or a contribution to the fund by a federal, state, or local agency serves a public purpose and does not constitute a gift of public funds within the meaning of Section 6 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.(Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 120, Sec. 9. (SB 200) Effective July 24, 2019.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 116772 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|PART 12 - DRINKING WATER|CHAPTER 4.6 - Safe and Affordable Drinking Water|ARTICLE 6 - Information on High-Risk Areas|Section 116772.

116772.  (a) (1) By January 1, 2021, the board, in consultation with local health officers and other relevant stakeholders, shall use available data to make available a map of aquifers that are at high risk of containing contaminants that exceed safe drinking water standards that are used or likely to be used as a source of drinking water for a state small water system or a domestic well. The board shall update the map annually based on new and relevant data.(2) The board shall make the map of high-risk areas, as well as the data used to make the map, publicly accessible on its internet website in a manner that complies with the Information Practices Act of 1977 (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 1798) of Title 1.8 of Part 4 of Division 3 of the Civil Code). The board shall notify local health officers and county planning agencies of high-risk areas within their jurisdictions.(b) (1) By January 1, 2021, a local health officer or other relevant local agency shall provide to the board all results of, and data associated with, water quality testing performed by a laboratory that has accreditation or certification pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 100825) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 101 for a state small water system or domestic well that was collected after January 1, 2014, and that is in the possession of the local health officer or other relevant local agency.(2) By January 1, 2022, and by January 1 of each year thereafter, all results of, and data associated with, water quality testing performed by a laboratory that has accreditation or certification pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 100825) of Chapter 4 of Part 1 of Division 101 for a state small water system or domestic well that is submitted to a local health officer or other relevant local agency shall also be submitted directly to the board in electronic format.(Added by Stats. 2019, Ch. 120, Sec. 9. (SB 200) Effective July 24, 2019.)
CA Health & Safety Code § 116775 (2021)
2021 California Code|Health and Safety Code - HSC|DIVISION 104 - ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH|PART 12 - DRINKING WATER|CHAPTER 5 - Water Equipment and Control|ARTICLE 1 - Water Softeners|Section 116775.

116775.  The Legislature hereby finds and declares that the utilization of the waters of the state by residential consumers for general domestic purposes, including drinking, cleaning, washing, and personal grooming and sanitation of the people is a right that should be interfered with only when necessary for specified health and safety purposes or to protect the quality of the waters of the state. The Legislature further finds that variation in water quality, and particularly in water hardness, throughout the state often requires that onsite water softening or conditioning be available to domestic consumers to ensure their right to a water supply that is effective and functional for domestic requirements of the residential household, but that residential water softening or conditioning appliances shall be available only as authorized in this article.(Amended by Stats. 1999, Ch. 969, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2000.)