116885.
(a) By July 1, 2018, a public water system shall compile an inventory of known lead user service lines in use in its distribution system and identify areas that may have lead user service lines in use in its distribution system.(b) (1) After completing the inventory required pursuant to subdivision (a), a public water system shall provide a timeline for replacement of known lead user service lines in use in its distribution system to the board.
(2) By July 1, 2020, a public water system with areas that may have lead user service lines in use in its distribution system shall do either of the following:
(A) Determine the existence or absence of lead user service lines in use in its distribution system and provide that information to the board.
(B) Provide a timeline to the board for replacement of user service lines whose content cannot be determined.
(c) The board shall approve a timeline established pursuant to subdivision (b) as follows:
(1) The board shall review a public water system’s proposed timeline for lead user service line replacement and, within 30 days of submission of the timeline to the board, do either of the following:
(A) Approve the proposed timeline.
(B) Deny the proposed timeline and propose a revised timeline to the public water system. The board shall explain to the public water system, in writing, why the public water system’s timeline was not approved, the factors that the board used to propose a revised timeline, and why the board used those factors.
(2) If the board fails to act within 30 days of the submission of the timeline, the timeline shall be deemed approved.
(3) If the public water system rejects the board’s proposed revised timeline, the public water system and the board shall develop a compromise timeline within 30 days.
(4) An approved timeline or a compromise timeline shall be a public record and available on the board’s Internet Web site.
(5) In cases where a portion of a public water system’s distribution system is located within a Superfund site, as designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (42 U.S.C. Sec. 9601 et seq.), under an active cleanup order, the board shall not propose a timeline for lead user service line replacement that does not conform to any applicable federal regulatory requirements or timelines.
(d) For the purposes of this section:
(1) “Board” means the State Water Resources Control Board.
(2) “Public water system” has the same meaning as in Section 116275.
(3) “User service line” has the same meaning as in Section 64551.60 of Title 22 of the California Code of Regulations.