Bill Text: CA SB846 | 2011-2012 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: The California Water Plan: water data.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2011-08-17 - Hearing postponed by committee. [SB846 Detail]

Download: California-2011-SB846-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: SB 846	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  MAY 3, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  MARCH 25, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Berryhill

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 10004.5 of the Water Code, relating to
water.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 846, as amended, Berryhill.  The  California Water
Plan: water data.
   Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update
every 5 years the plan for the orderly and coordinated control,
protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources
of the state, which is known as  the   The
 California Water Plan. Existing law prescribes the contents of
 the   The  California Water Plan, and
requires the department to include a discussion of various strategies
in the plan, including strategies relating to the development of new
water storage facilities, water conservation, water recycling,
desalination, conjunctive use, and water transfers that may be
pursued in order to meet the future needs of the state.
   This bill would additionally require the department to include in
the plan an assessment of the state's water data system  and
would prescribe requirements relating to the contents and conduct of
the assessment  .
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 10004.5 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   10004.5.  (a) As part of the requirement of the department to
update The California Water Plan pursuant to subdivision (b) of
Section 10004, the department shall include in the plan a discussion
of various strategies, including, but not limited to, those relating
to the development of new water storage facilities, water
conservation, water recycling, desalination, conjunctive use, and
water transfers that may be pursued in order to meet the future water
needs of the state. The department shall also include a discussion
of the potential for alternative water pricing policies to change
current and projected uses. The department shall include in the plan
a discussion of the potential advantages and disadvantages of each
strategy and an identification of all federal and state permits,
approvals, or entitlements that are anticipated to be required in
order to implement the various components of the strategy.
   (b) The department shall include in the plan an assessment of the
state's water data system.  The department shall identify and
evaluate tools that would collect, centralize, standardize, and
analyze available water information throughout the st   ate
in a timely manner. The department shall include a discussion of
advance data acquisition technologies and outline strategies to
utilize that information to improve efficiency of water resource
management. In conducting the assessment, the department shall
collaborate with state, federal, and local agencies to assess the
existing catalog of water information that is being collected
throughout the state, and shall identify existing information gaps.