Bill Text: CA AB589 | 2017-2018 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Water diversion: monitoring and reporting: University of California Cooperative Extension.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Passed) 2017-10-04 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 471, Statutes of 2017. [AB589 Detail]

Download: California-2017-AB589-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2017–2018 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 589

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Introduced by Assembly Member Bigelow

February 14, 2017

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An act to amend Section 1228.1 of the Water Code, relating to water rights.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 589, as introduced, Bigelow. Water rights: appropriation: small domestic, small irrigation, and livestock stockpond use.

The Water Rights Permitting Reform Act of 1988 authorizes any person to obtain a right to appropriate water for a small domestic, small irrigation, or livestock stockpond use, as defined, upon registering the use with the State Water Resources Control Board, as prescribed, payment of a registration fee, and application of the water to reasonable and beneficial use with due diligence. Existing law sets forth various definitions for that purpose.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

Digest Key

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

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Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 1228.1 of the Water Code is amended to read:

1228.1.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that it is in the public interest to provide a timely, efficient, and economic procedure for the acquisition of rights to appropriate water for a small domestic use, including incidental stock watering and irrigation uses, a small irrigation use, and for a livestock stockpond subject to prior rights.

(b) As used in For purposes of this article: article, the following terms have the following meanings:

(1) “Small domestic use” means a domestic use, as that use is defined by board rule, or a use for aesthetic, fire protection, recreational, or fish and wildlife purposes that is associated with a dwelling or other facility for human occupation, that does not exceed direct diversion of 4,500 gallons per day or diversion to storage of 10 acre-feet per year.

(2) “Small irrigation use” means either of the following:

(A) An irrigation use, heat control use, or frost protection use, not to exceed diversion to storage of 20 acre-feet per year, including impoundment for incidental aesthetic, fire protection, recreational, or fish and wildlife purposes.

(B) An irrigation use not to exceed direct diversion of 42,000 gallons per day, up to a maximum of 20 acre-feet per year.

(3) “Livestock stockpond” means a water impoundment structure constructed for livestock watering use not to exceed direct diversion of 4,500 gallons per day, or diversion to storage of 10 acre-feet per year, as that use is defined by the board, and including impoundment for incidental aesthetic, fire protection, recreational, or fish and wildlife purposes.