Bill Text: CA AB2560 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Water quality: notification levels and response levels: procedures.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-1)

Status: (Passed) 2020-09-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 350, Statutes of 2020. [AB2560 Detail]

Download: California-2019-AB2560-Amended.html

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Amended  IN  Senate  June 29, 2020

Amended  IN  Assembly  May 12, 2020

Amended  IN  Assembly  May 06, 2020

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2560

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Introduced by Assembly Member Quirk
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Daly Bauer-Kahan, Daly, and Petrie-Norris)
(Coauthor: Senator Moorlach)

February 19, 2020

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An act to add Section 116456 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to water quality.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2560, as amended, Quirk. Water quality: notification and response levels: procedures.

The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various duties and responsibilities for the regulation and control of drinking water in the state. The act requires the state board to adopt drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water based upon specified criteria and requires any person who owns a public water system to ensure that the system, among other things, complies with those drinking water standards.

The act requires a public water system to provide prescribed notices within 30 days after it is first informed of a confirmed detection of a contaminant found in drinking water delivered by the public water system for human consumption that is in excess of a maximum contaminant level, a notification level, or a response level established by the state board.

This bill would require the state board to comply with specified public notice and comment procedures when establishing or revising notification or response levels. levels, except as specified.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 116456 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:

116456.

 (a) When establishing or revising notification or response levels, the state board shall do all of the following:

(a)

(1) Electronically post on its internet website and distribute through email a notice informing interested persons that the state board has initiated the development of a notification or response level.

(b)

(2) Electronically post on its internet website and distribute through email a notice that a draft proposed notification or response level is available. The notice shall include an electronic link to an internet webpage where the draft proposed level can be viewed electronically along with the complete study or studies and the notification level recommendations document provided to the state board by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment, if applicable, that were used to establish the level. The notice shall indicate whether the study or studies were peer reviewed and whether only one study was used. Notice and document availability shall occur at least 30 days before the meeting required pursuant to subdivision (c). paragraph (3).

(c)

(3) Before a draft proposed notification or response level is finalized, include, as an informational item, the draft proposed notification or response level at a regularly noticed meeting of the state board.

(b) If the Division of Drinking Water of the state board finds that an acute contaminant presents a public health emergency calling for immediate action to avoid imminent harm to public health and safety, paragraph (3) of subdivision (a), and the 30-day deadline for the notice and document availability requirement in paragraph (2) of subdivision (a), shall not apply to the acute contaminant. The division shall issue a declaration confirming its finding within 30 days of making the finding.