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April 27, 2022
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Amended
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Assembly
April 18, 2022
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2041
Introduced by Assembly Member Eduardo Garcia Members Eduardo Garcia and Mathis
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Smith)
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February 14, 2022 |
An act to add Section 116365.1 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to drinking water.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2041, as amended, Eduardo Garcia.
California Safe Drinking Water Act: primary drinking water standards: compliance.
Existing law, the California Safe Drinking Water Act, requires the State Water Resources Control Board to adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water. Existing law requires the state board to consider specified criteria when it adopts a primary drinking water standard, including the technological and economic feasibility of compliance.
This bill would require the state board to take specified actions if the state board adopts a primary drinking water standard with a compliance period for which public water systems are given a designated period of time to install necessary measures, including, but not limited to, installation of water treatment systems,
to comply with the primary drinking water standard without being held in violation of the primary drinking water standard. Those actions would include, among other actions, developing a financial plan to assist public water systems that will require financial assistance in procuring and installing the necessary measures. Specifically, the bill would require the state board to determine which public water system may not be able to comply with the primary drinking water standard without receiving financial assistance and develop a compliance plan, including a financial plan to assist that public water system in complying with the primary drinking water standard. The bill would also require the state board, if a public water system is in violation of the primary drinking water standard after the compliance period, to take into consideration
whether or not the public water system implemented the compliance plan.
Digest Key
Vote:
MAJORITY
Appropriation:
NO
Fiscal Committee:
YES
Local Program:
NO
Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 116365.1 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:116365.1.
(a) If the state board adopts a primary drinking water standard pursuant to Section 116365 with a compliance period for which public water systems are given a designated period of time to install necessary measures to comply with the primary drinking water standard without being held in violation of the primary drinking water standard, the state board shall do all both of the following:(1)Provide an estimate of the total costs statewide for public water systems to install the necessary measures to comply with the primary drinking water standard.
(2)Determine
(1) Based upon the information the state board obtained during the development of the primary drinking water standard, and to the extent feasible, determine which public water systems can afford to install the necessary measures may not be able to comply with the primary drinking water standard without receiving financial assistance.
(3)Determine which public water systems will require financial assistance in order to afford to be able to procure and install the necessary measures to comply with the primary drinking water standard.
(4)For any public water system identified under paragraph (3), develop a financial plan to assist the public water system in procuring and installing the necessary measures to comply with the primary drinking water standard.
(b)For purposes of this section, “necessary measures” includes, but is not limited to, installation of water treatment systems.
(2) For a system identified pursuant to paragraph (1), work with the system and develop a compliance plan, including, but not limited to, a financial plan to assist the public water system in complying with the primary drinking water standard.
(b) If a public water system, after the compliance period, is in violation of the primary drinking water standard, in addition to any other law or regulation, the state board shall take into consideration whether or not the public water system implemented the compliance plan.
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REVISIONS:
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