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APPENDIX A Legislative Requirements  Urban Water Management Planning Act  SBx7-7 Water Conservation Act of 2009  SB1478 ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-1 3/2/2011 Section K: California Water Code, Division 6, Part 2.6: Urban Water Management Planning The following sections of California Water Code Division 6, Part 2.6, are available online at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html. Chapter 1. General Declaration and Policy §10610-10610.4 Chapter 2. Definitions §10611-10617 Chapter 3. Urban Water Management Plans Article 1. General Provisions §10620-10621 Article 2. Contents of Plans §10630-10634 Article 2.5. Water Service Reliability §10635 Article 3. Adoption And Implementation of Plans §10640-10645 Chapter 4. Miscellaneous Provisions §10650-10656 Chapter 1. General Declaration and Policy 10610. This part shall be known and may be cited as the “Urban Water Management Planning Act.” 10610.2. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: The waters of the state are a limited and renewable resource subject to ever- increasing demands. The conservation and efficient use of urban water supplies are of statewide concern; however, the planning for that use and the implementation of those plans can best be accomplished at the local level. A long-term, reliable supply of water is essential to protect the productivity of California's businesses and economic climate. As part of its long-range planning activities, every urban water supplier should make every effort to ensure the appropriate level of reliability in its water service sufficient to meet the needs of its various categories of customers during normal, dry, and multiple dry water years. Public health issues have been raised over a number of contaminants that have been identified in certain local and imported water supplies. Implementing effective water management strategies, including groundwater storage projects and recycled water projects, may require specific water quality and salinity targets for meeting groundwater basins water quality objectives and promoting beneficial use of recycled water. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-2 3/2/2011 Water quality regulations are becoming an increasingly important factor in water agencies' selection of raw water sources, treatment alternatives, and modifications to existing treatment facilities. Changes in drinking water quality standards may also impact the usefulness of water supplies and may ultimately impact supply reliability. The quality of source supplies can have a significant impact on water management strategies and supply reliability. This part is intended to provide assistance to water agencies in carrying out their long-term resource planning responsibilities to ensure adequate water supplies to meet existing and future demands for water. 10610.4. The Legislature finds and declares that it is the policy of the state as follows: The management of urban water demands and efficient use of water shall be actively pursued to protect both the people of the state and their water resources. The management of urban water demands and efficient use of urban water supplies shall be a guiding criterion in public decisions. Urban water suppliers shall be required to develop water management plans to actively pursue the efficient use of available supplies. Chapter 2. Definitions 10611. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions of this chapter govern the construction of this part. 10611.5. “Demand management” means those water conservation measures, programs, and incentives that prevent the waste of water and promote the reasonable and efficient use and reuse of available supplies. 10612. “Customer” means a purchaser of water from a water supplier who uses the water for municipal purposes, including residential, commercial, governmental, and industrial uses. 10613. “Efficient use” means those management measures that result in the most effective use of water so as to prevent its waste or unreasonable use or unreasonable method of use. 10614. “Person” means any individual, firm, association, organization, partnership, business, trust, corporation, company, public agency, or any agency of such an entity. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-3 3/2/2011 10615. “Plan” means an urban water management plan prepared pursuant to this part. A plan shall describe and evaluate sources of supply, reasonable and practical efficient uses, reclamation and demand management activities. The components of the plan may vary according to an individual community or area's characteristics and its capabilities to efficiently use and conserve water. The plan shall address measures for residential, commercial, governmental, and industrial water demand management as set forth in Article 2 (commencing with Section 10630) of Chapter 3. In addition, a strategy and time schedule for implementation shall be included in the plan. 10616. “Public agency” means any board, commission, county, city and county, city, regional agency, district, or other public entity. 10616.5. “Recycled water” means the reclamation and reuse of wastewater for beneficial use. 10617. “Urban water supplier” means a supplier, either publicly or privately owned, providing water for municipal purposes either directly or indirectly to more than 3,000 customers or supplying more than 3,000 acre-feet of water annually. An urban water supplier includes a supplier or contractor for water, regardless of the basis of right, which distributes or sells for ultimate resale to customers. This part applies only to water supplied from public water systems subject to Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 116275) of Part 12 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code. Chapter 3. Urban Water Management Plans Article 1. General Provisions 10620. Every urban water supplier shall prepare and adopt an urban water management plan in the manner set forth in Article 3 (commencing with Section 10640). Every person that becomes an urban water supplier shall adopt an urban water management plan within one year after it has become an urban water supplier. An urban water supplier indirectly providing water shall not include planning elements in its water management plan as provided in Article 2 (commencing with Section 10630) that would be applicable to urban water suppliers or public agencies directly providing water, or to their customers, without the consent of those suppliers or public agencies. An urban water supplier may satisfy the requirements of this part by participation in areawide, regional, watershed, or basinwide urban water management planning where those plans will reduce preparation costs and contribute to the achievement of conservation and efficient water use. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-4 3/2/2011 Each urban water supplier shall coordinate the preparation of its plan with other appropriate agencies in the area, including other water suppliers that share a common source, water management agencies, and relevant public agencies, to the extent practicable. The urban water supplier may prepare the plan with its own staff, by contract, or in cooperation with other governmental agencies. An urban water supplier shall describe in the plan water management tools and options used by that entity that will maximize resources and minimize the need to import water from other regions. 10621. Each urban water supplier shall update its plan at least once every five years on or before December 31, in years ending in five and zero. Every urban water supplier required to prepare a plan pursuant to this part shall, at least 60 days prior to the public hearing on the plan required by Section 10642, notify any city or county within which the supplier provides water supplies that the urban water supplier will be reviewing the plan and considering amendments or changes to the plan. The urban water supplier may consult with, and obtain comments from, any city or county that receives notice pursuant to this subdivision. The amendments to, or changes in, the plan shall be adopted and filed in the manner set forth in Article 3 (commencing with Section 10640). Article 2. Contents of Plans 10630. It is the intention of the Legislature, in enacting this part, to permit levels of water management planning commensurate with the numbers of customers served and the volume of water supplied. 10631. A plan shall be adopted in accordance with this chapter that shall do all of the following: Describe the service area of the supplier, including current and projected population, climate, and other demographic factors affecting the supplier's water management planning. The projected population estimates shall be based upon data from the state, regional, or local service agency population projections within the service area of the urban water supplier and shall be in five-year increments to 20 years or as far as data is available. Identify and quantify, to the extent practicable, the existing and planned sources of water available to the supplier over the same five-year increments described in subdivision If groundwater is identified as an existing or planned source of ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-5 3/2/2011 water available to the supplier, all of the following information shall be included in the plan: A copy of any groundwater management plan adopted by the urban water supplier, including plans adopted pursuant to Part 2.75 (commencing with Section 10750), or any other specific authorization for groundwater management. A description of any groundwater basin or basins from which the urban water supplier pumps groundwater. For those basins for which a court or the board has adjudicated the rights to pump groundwater, a copy of the order or decree adopted by the court or the board and a description of the amount of groundwater the urban water supplier has the legal right to pump under the order or decree. For basins that have not been adjudicated, information as to whether the department has identified the basin or basins as overdrafted or has projected that the basin will become overdrafted if present management conditions continue, in the most current official departmental bulletin that characterizes the condition of the groundwater basin, and a detailed description of the efforts being undertaken by the urban water supplier to eliminate the long-term overdraft condition. A detailed description and analysis of the location, amount, and sufficiency of groundwater pumped by the urban water supplier for the past five years. The description and analysis shall be based on information that is reasonably available, including, but not limited to, historic use records. A detailed description and analysis of the amount and location of groundwater that is projected to be pumped by the urban water supplier. The description and analysis shall be based on information that is reasonably available, including, but not limited to, historic use records. Describe the reliability of the water supply and vulnerability to seasonal or climatic shortage, to the extent practicable, and provide data for each of the following: An average water year. A single dry water year. Multiple dry water years. For any water source that may not be available at a consistent level of use, given specific legal, environmental, water quality, or climatic factors, describe plans to supplement or replace that source with alternative sources or water demand management measures, to the extent practicable. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-6 3/2/2011 Describe the opportunities for exchanges or transfers of water on a short-term or long-term basis. Quantify, to the extent records are available, past and current water use, over the same five-year increments described in subdivision and projected water use, identifying the uses among water use sectors, including, but not necessarily limited to, all of the following uses: Single-family residential. Multifamily. Commercial. Industrial. Institutional and governmental. Landscape. Sales to other agencies. Saline water intrusion barriers, groundwater recharge, or conjunctive use, or any combination thereof. Agricultural. The water use projections shall be in the same five-year increments described in subdivision Provide a description of the supplier's water demand management measures. This description shall include all of the following: A description of each water demand management measure that is currently being implemented, or scheduled for implementation, including the steps necessary to implement any proposed measures, including, but not limited to, all of the following: Water survey programs for single-family residential and multifamily residential customers. Residential plumbing retrofit. System water audits, leak detection, and repair. Metering with commodity rates for all new connections and retrofit of existing connections. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-7 3/2/2011 Large landscape conservation programs and incentives. High-efficiency washing machine rebate programs. Public information programs. School education programs. Conservation programs for commercial, industrial, and institutional accounts. Wholesale agency programs. Conservation pricing. Water conservation coordinator. Water waste prohibition. Residential ultra-low-flush toilet replacement programs. A schedule of implementation for all water demand management measures proposed or described in the plan. A description of the methods, if any, that the supplier will use to evaluate the effectiveness of water demand management measures implemented or described under the plan. An estimate, if available, of existing conservation savings on water use within the supplier's service area, and the effect of the savings on the supplier's ability to further reduce demand. An evaluation of each water demand management measure listed in paragraph of subdivision that is not currently being implemented or scheduled for implementation. In the course of the evaluation, first consideration shall be given to water demand management measures, or combination of measures, that offer lower incremental costs than expanded or additional water supplies. This evaluation shall do all of the following: Take into account economic and noneconomic factors, including environmental, social, health, customer impact, and technological factors. Include a cost-benefit analysis, identifying total benefits and total costs. Include a description of funding available to implement any planned water supply project that would provide water at a higher unit cost. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-8 3/2/2011 Include a description of the water supplier's legal authority to implement the measure and efforts to work with other relevant agencies to ensure the implementation of the measure and to share the cost of implementation. Include a description of all water supply projects and water supply programs that may be undertaken by the urban water supplier to meet the total projected water use as established pursuant to subdivision of Section 10635. The urban water supplier shall include a detailed description of expected future projects and programs, other than the demand management programs identified pursuant to paragraph of subdivision that the urban water supplier may implement to increase the amount of the water supply available to the urban water supplier in average, single-dry, and multiple-dry water years. The description shall identify specific projects and include a description of the increase in water supply that is expected to be available from each project. The description shall include an estimate with regard to the implementation timeline for each project or program. Describe the opportunities for development of desalinated water, including, but not limited to, ocean water, brackish water, and groundwater, as a long-term supply. For purposes of this part, urban water suppliers that are members of the California Urban Water Conservation Council shall be deemed in compliance with the requirements of subdivisions and by complying with all the provisions of the “Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Urban Water Conservation in California,” dated December 10, 2008, as it may be amended, and by submitting the annual reports required by Section 6.2 of that memorandum. Urban water suppliers that rely upon a wholesale agency for a source of water shall provide the wholesale agency with water use projections from that agency for that source of water in five-year increments to 20 years or as far as data is available. The wholesale agency shall provide information to the urban water supplier for inclusion in the urban water supplier's plan that identifies and quantifies, to the extent practicable, the existing and planned sources of water as required by subdivision available from the wholesale agency to the urban water supplier over the same five-year increments, and during various water-year types in accordance with subdivision An urban water supplier may rely upon water supply information provided by the wholesale agency in fulfilling the plan informational requirements of subdivisions and 10631.1. The water use projections required by Section 10631 shall include projected water use for single-family and multifamily residential housing needed for lower income households, as defined in Section 50079.5 of the Health and Safety Code, ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-9 3/2/2011 as identified in the housing element of any city, county, or city and county in the service area of the supplier. It is the intent of the Legislature that the identification of projected water use for single-family and multifamily residential housing for lower income households will assist a supplier in complying with the requirement under Section 65589.7 of the Government Code to grant a priority for the provision of service to housing units affordable to lower income households. 10631.5. Beginning January 1, 2009, the terms of, and eligibility for, a water management grant or loan made to an urban water supplier and awarded or administered by the department, state board, or California Bay-Delta Authority or its successor agency shall be conditioned on the implementation of the water demand management measures described in Section 10631, as determined by the department pursuant to subdivision For the purposes of this section, water management grants and loans include funding for programs and projects for surface water or groundwater storage, recycling, desalination, water conservation, water supply reliability, and water supply augmentation. This section does not apply to water management projects funded by the federal American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Public Law 111-5). Notwithstanding paragraph the department shall determine that an urban water supplier is eligible for a water management grant or loan even though the supplier is not implementing all of the water demand management measures described in Section 10631, if the urban water supplier has submitted to the department for approval a schedule, financing plan, and budget, to be included in the grant or loan agreement, for implementation of the water demand management measures. The supplier may request grant or loan funds to implement the water demand management measures to the extent the request is consistent with the eligibility requirements applicable to the water management funds. Notwithstanding paragraph the department shall determine that an urban water supplier is eligible for a water management grant or loan even though the supplier is not implementing all of the water demand management measures described in Section 10631, if an urban water supplier submits to the department for approval documentation demonstrating that a water demand management measure is not locally cost effective. If the department determines that the documentation submitted by the urban water supplier fails to demonstrate that a water demand management measure is not locally cost effective, the ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-10 3/2/2011 department shall notify the urban water supplier and the agency administering the grant or loan program within 120 days that the documentation does not satisfy the requirements for an exemption, and include in that notification a detailed statement to support the determination. For purposes of this paragraph, “not locally cost effective” means that the present value of the local benefits of implementing a water demand management measure is less than the present value of the local costs of implementing that measure. The department, in consultation with the state board and the California Bay- Delta Authority or its successor agency, and after soliciting public comment regarding eligibility requirements, shall develop eligibility requirements to implement the requirement of paragraph of subdivision In establishing these eligibility requirements, the department shall do both of the following: Consider the conservation measures described in the Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Urban Water Conservation in California, and alternative conservation approaches that provide equal or greater water savings. Recognize the different legal, technical, fiscal, and practical roles and responsibilities of wholesale water suppliers and retail water suppliers. For the purposes of this section, the department shall determine whether an urban water supplier is implementing all of the water demand management measures described in Section 10631 based on either, or a combination, of the following: Compliance on an individual basis. (ii) Compliance on a regional basis. Regional compliance shall require participation in a regional conservation program consisting of two or more urban water suppliers that achieves the level of conservation or water efficiency savings equivalent to the amount of conservation or savings achieved if each of the participating urban water suppliers implemented the water demand management measures. The urban water supplier administering the regional program shall provide participating urban water suppliers and the department with data to demonstrate that the regional program is consistent with this clause. The department shall review the data to determine whether the urban water suppliers in the regional program are meeting the eligibility requirements. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-11 3/2/2011 The department may require additional information for any determination pursuant to this section. The department shall not deny eligibility to an urban water supplier in compliance with the requirements of this section that is participating in a multiagency water project, or an integrated regional water management plan, developed pursuant to Section 75026 of the Public Resources Code, solely on the basis that one or more of the agencies participating in the project or plan is not implementing all of the water demand management measures described in Section 10631. In establishing guidelines pursuant to the specific funding authorization for any water management grant or loan program subject to this section, the agency administering the grant or loan program shall include in the guidelines the eligibility requirements developed by the department pursuant to subdivision Upon receipt of a water management grant or loan application by an agency administering a grant and loan program subject to this section, the agency shall request an eligibility determination from the department with respect to the requirements of this section. The department shall respond to the request within 60 days of the request. The urban water supplier may submit to the department copies of its annual reports and other relevant documents to assist the department in determining whether the urban water supplier is implementing or scheduling the implementation of water demand management activities. In addition, for urban water suppliers that are signatories to the Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Urban Water Conservation in California and submit annual reports to the California Urban Water Conservation Council in accordance with the memorandum, the department may use these reports to assist in tracking the implementation of water demand management measures. This section shall remain in effect only until July 1, 2016, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute, that is enacted before July 1, 2016, deletes or extends that date. 10631.7. The department, in consultation with the California Urban Water Conservation Council, shall convene an independent technical panel to provide information and recommendations to the department and the Legislature on new demand management measures, technologies, and approaches. The panel shall consist of no more than seven members, who shall be selected by the department to reflect a balanced representation of experts. The panel shall have at least one, but no more than two, representatives from each of the following: retail water suppliers, environmental organizations, the business community, wholesale water suppliers, and academia. The panel shall be convened by January 1, 2009, and shall report to the ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-12 3/2/2011 Legislature no later than January 1, 2010, and every five years thereafter. The department shall review the panel report and include in the final report to the Legislature the department's recommendations and comments regarding the panel process and the panel's recommendations. 10632. The plan shall provide an urban water shortage contingency analysis which includes each of the following elements which are within the authority of the urban water supplier: Stages of action to be undertaken by the urban water supplier in response to water supply shortages, including up to a 50 percent reduction in water supply, and an outline of specific water supply conditions which are applicable to each stage. An estimate of the minimum water supply available during each of the next three water years based on the driest three-year historic sequence for the agency's water supply. Actions to be undertaken by the urban water supplier to prepare for, and implement during, a catastrophic interruption of water supplies including, but not limited to, a regional power outage, an earthquake, or other disaster. Additional, mandatory prohibitions against specific water use practices during water shortages, including, but not limited to, prohibiting the use of potable water for street cleaning. Consumption reduction methods in the most restrictive stages. Each urban water supplier may use any type of consumption reduction methods in its water shortage contingency analysis that would reduce water use, are appropriate for its area, and have the ability to achieve a water use reduction consistent with up to a 50 percent reduction in water supply. Penalties or charges for excessive use, where applicable. An analysis of the impacts of each of the actions and conditions described in subdivisions to inclusive, on the revenues and expenditures of the urban water supplier, and proposed measures to overcome those impacts, such as the development of reserves and rate adjustments. A draft water shortage contingency resolution or ordinance. A mechanism for determining actual reductions in water use pursuant to the urban water shortage contingency analysis. 10633. The plan shall provide, to the extent available, information on recycled water and its potential for use as a water source in the service area of the urban water ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-13 3/2/2011 supplier. The preparation of the plan shall be coordinated with local water, wastewater, groundwater, and planning agencies that operate within the supplier's service area, and shall include all of the following: A description of the wastewater collection and treatment systems in the supplier's service area, including a quantification of the amount of wastewater collected and treated and the methods of wastewater disposal. A description of the quantity of treated wastewater that meets recycled water standards, is being discharged, and is otherwise available for use in a recycled water project. A description of the recycled water currently being used in the supplier's service area, including, but not limited to, the type, place, and quantity of use. A description and quantification of the potential uses of recycled water, including, but not limited to, agricultural irrigation, landscape irrigation, wildlife habitat enhancement, wetlands, industrial reuse, groundwater recharge, indirect potable reuse, and other appropriate uses, and a determination with regard to the technical and economic feasibility of serving those uses. The projected use of recycled water within the supplier's service area at the end of 5, 10, 15, and 20 years, and a description of the actual use of recycled water in comparison to uses previously projected pursuant to this subdivision. A description of actions, including financial incentives, which may be taken to encourage the use of recycled water, and the projected results of these actions in terms of acre-feet of recycled water used per year. A plan for optimizing the use of recycled water in the supplier's service area, including actions to facilitate the installation of dual distribution systems, to promote recirculating uses, to facilitate the increased use of treated wastewater that meets recycled water standards, and to overcome any obstacles to achieving that increased use. 10634. The plan shall include information, to the extent practicable, relating to the quality of existing sources of water available to the supplier over the same five-year increments as described in subdivision of Section 10631, and the manner in which water quality affects water management strategies and supply reliability. Article 2.5. Water Service Reliability 10635. Every urban water supplier shall include, as part of its urban water management plan, an assessment of the reliability of its water service to its customers during normal, dry, and multiple dry water years. This water supply and demand ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-14 3/2/2011 assessment shall compare the total water supply sources available to the water supplier with the total projected water use over the next 20 years, in five-year increments, for a normal water year, a single dry water year, and multiple dry water years. The water service reliability assessment shall be based upon the information compiled pursuant to Section 10631, including available data from state, regional, or local agency population projections within the service area of the urban water supplier. The urban water supplier shall provide that portion of its urban water management plan prepared pursuant to this article to any city or county within which it provides water supplies no later than 60 days after the submission of its urban water management plan. Nothing in this article is intended to create a right or entitlement to water service or any specific level of water service. Nothing in this article is intended to change existing law concerning an urban water supplier's obligation to provide water service to its existing customers or to any potential future customers. Article 3. Adoption and Implementation of Plans 10640. Every urban water supplier required to prepare a plan pursuant to this part shall prepare its plan pursuant to Article 2 (commencing with Section 10630). The supplier shall likewise periodically review the plan as required by Section 10621, and any amendments or changes required as a result of that review shall be adopted pursuant to this article. 10641. An urban water supplier required to prepare a plan may consult with, and obtain comments from, any public agency or state agency or any person who has special expertise with respect to water demand management methods and techniques. 10642. Each urban water supplier shall encourage the active involvement of diverse social, cultural, and economic elements of the population within the service area prior to and during the preparation of the plan. Prior to adopting a plan, the urban water supplier shall make the plan available for public inspection and shall hold a public hearing thereon. Prior to the hearing, notice of the time and place of hearing shall be published within the jurisdiction of the publicly owned water supplier pursuant to Section 6066 of the Government Code. The urban water supplier shall provide notice of the time and place of hearing to any city or county within which the supplier provides water supplies. A privately owned water supplier shall provide an equivalent notice within its service area. After the hearing, the plan shall be adopted as prepared or as modified after the hearing. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-15 3/2/2011 10643. An urban water supplier shall implement its plan adopted pursuant to this chapter in accordance with the schedule set forth in its plan. 10644. An urban water supplier shall submit to the department, the California State Library, and any city or county within which the supplier provides water supplies a copy of its plan no later than 30 days after adoption. Copies of amendments or changes to the plans shall be submitted to the department, the California State Library, and any city or county within which the supplier provides water supplies within 30 days after adoption. The department shall prepare and submit to the Legislature, on or before December 31, in the years ending in six and one, a report summarizing the status of the plans adopted pursuant to this part. The report prepared by the department shall identify the exemplary elements of the individual plans. The department shall provide a copy of the report to each urban water supplier that has submitted its plan to the department. The department shall also prepare reports and provide data for any legislative hearings designed to consider the effectiveness of plans submitted pursuant to this part. For the purpose of identifying the exemplary elements of the individual plans, the department shall identify in the report those water demand management measures adopted and implemented by specific urban water suppliers, and identified pursuant to Section 10631, that achieve water savings significantly above the levels established by the department to meet the requirements of Section 10631.5. The department shall distribute to the panel convened pursuant to Section 10631.7 the results achieved by the implementation of those water demand management measures described in paragraph The department shall make available to the public the standard the department will use to identify exemplary water demand management measures. 10645. Not later than 30 days after filing a copy of its plan with the department, the urban water supplier and the department shall make the plan available for public review during normal business hours. Chapter 4. Miscellaneous Provisions 10650. Any actions or proceedings to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul the acts or decisions of an urban water supplier on the grounds of noncompliance with this part shall be commenced as follows: ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-16 3/2/2011 An action or proceeding alleging failure to adopt a plan shall be commenced within 18 months after that adoption is required by this part. Any action or proceeding alleging that a plan, or action taken pursuant to the plan, does not comply with this part shall be commenced within 90 days after filing of the plan or amendment thereto pursuant to Section 10644 or the taking of that action. 10651. In any action or proceeding to attack, review, set aside, void, or annul a plan, or an action taken pursuant to the plan by an urban water supplier on the grounds of noncompliance with this part, the inquiry shall extend only to whether there was a prejudicial abuse of discretion. Abuse of discretion is established if the supplier has not proceeded in a manner required by law or if the action by the water supplier is not supported by substantial evidence. 10652. The California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13 (commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code) does not apply to the preparation and adoption of plans pursuant to this part or to the implementation of actions taken pursuant to Section 10632. Nothing in this part shall be interpreted as exempting from the California Environmental Quality Act any project that would significantly affect water supplies for fish and wildlife, or any project for implementation of the plan, other than projects implementing Section 10632, or any project for expanded or additional water supplies. 10653. The adoption of a plan shall satisfy any requirements of state law, regulation, or order, including those of the State Water Resources Control Board and the Public Utilities Commission, for the preparation of water management plans or conservation plans; provided, that if the State Water Resources Control Board or the Public Utilities Commission requires additional information concerning water conservation to implement its existing authority, nothing in this part shall be deemed to limit the board or the commission in obtaining that information. The requirements of this part shall be satisfied by any urban water demand management plan prepared to meet federal laws or regulations after the effective date of this part, and which substantially meets the requirements of this part, or by any existing urban water management plan which includes the contents of a plan required under this part. 10654. An urban water supplier may recover in its rates the costs incurred in preparing its plan and implementing the reasonable water conservation measures included in the plan. Any best water management practice that is included in the plan that is identified in the “Memorandum of Understanding Regarding Urban Water Conservation in California” is deemed to be reasonable for the purposes of this section. 10655. If any provision of this part or the application thereof to any person or circumstances is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final K-17 3/2/2011 applications of this part which can be given effect without the invalid provision or application thereof, and to this end the provisions of this part are severable. 10656. An urban water supplier that does not prepare, adopt, and submit its urban water management plan to the department in accordance with this part, is ineligible to receive funding pursuant to Division 24 (commencing with Section 78500) or Division 26 (commencing with Section 79000), or receive drought assistance from the state until the urban water management plan is submitted pursuant to this article. ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-1 3/2/2011 Section L: California Water Code, Division 6, Part 2.55: Water Conservation The following sections of California Water Code Division 6, Part 2.55, are available online at http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/calaw.html. Chapter 1. General Declarations and Policy §10608-10608.8 Chapter 2. Definitions §10608.12 Chapter 3. Urban Retail Water Suppliers §10608.16-10608.44 Legislative Counsel’s Digest Senate Bill No. 7 Chapter 4 An act to amend and repeal Section 10631.5 of, to add Part 2.55 (commencing with Section 10608) to Division 6 of, and to repeal and add Part 2.8 (commencing with Section 10800) of Division 6 of, the Water Code, relating to water. [Approved by Governor November 10, 2009. Filed with Secretary of State November 10, 2009.] Legislative Counsel’s Digest SB 7, Steinberg. Water conservation. Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to convene an independent technical panel to provide information to the department and the Legislature on new demand management measures, technologies, and approaches. “Demand management measures” means those water conservation measures, programs, and incentives that prevent the waste of water and promote the reasonable and efficient use and reuse of available supplies. This bill would require the state to achieve a 20% reduction in urban per capita water use in California by December 31, 2020. The state would be required to make incremental progress towards this goal by reducing per capita water use by at least 10% on or before December 31, 2015. The bill would require each urban retail water supplier to develop urban water use targets and an interim urban water use target, in accordance with specified requirements. The bill would require agricultural water suppliers to implement efficient water management practices. The bill would require the department, in consultation with other state agencies, to develop a single standardized water use reporting form. The bill, with certain exceptions, would provide that urban retail water suppliers, on and after July 1, 2016, and agricultural water suppliers, on and after July 1, 2013, are not eligible for state water grants or loans unless they comply with the water conservation requirements established by the bill. The bill would repeal, on July 1, 2016, an existing requirement that conditions ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-2 3/2/2011 eligibility for certain water management grants or loans to an urban water supplier on the implementation of certain water demand management measures. Existing law, until January 1, 1993, and thereafter only as specified, requires certain agricultural water suppliers to prepare and adopt water management plans. This bill would revise existing law relating to agricultural water management planning to require agricultural water suppliers to prepare and adopt agricultural water management plans with specified components on or before December 31, 2012, and update those plans on or before December 31, 2015, and on or before December 31 every 5 years thereafter. An agricultural water supplier that becomes an agricultural water supplier after December 31, 2012, would be required to prepare and adopt an agricultural water management plan within one year after becoming an agricultural water supplier. The agricultural water supplier would be required to notify each city or county within which the supplier provides water supplies with regard to the preparation or review of the plan. The bill would require the agricultural water supplier to submit copies of the plan to the department and other specified entities. The bill would provide that an agricultural water supplier is not eligible for state water grants or loans unless the supplier complies with the water management planning requirements established by the bill. The bill would take effect only if SB 1 and SB 6 of the 2009–10 7th Extraordinary Session of the Legislature are enacted and become effective. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Part 2.55 (commencing with Section 10608) is added to Division 6 of the Water Code, to read: Part 2.55. Sustainable Water Use and Demand Reduction Chapter 1. General Declarations and Policy 10608. The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: Water is a public resource that the California Constitution protects against waste and unreasonable use. Growing population, climate change, and the need to protect and grow California's economy while protecting and restoring our fish and wildlife habitats make it essential that the state manage its water resources as efficiently as possible. Diverse regional water supply portfolios will increase water supply reliability and reduce dependence on the Delta. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-3 3/2/2011 Reduced water use through conservation provides significant energy and environmental benefits, and can help protect water quality, improve streamflows, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The success of state and local water conservation programs to increase efficiency of water use is best determined on the basis of measurable outcomes related to water use or efficiency. Improvements in technology and management practices offer the potential for increasing water efficiency in California over time, providing an essential water management tool to meet the need for water for urban, agricultural, and environmental uses. The Governor has called for a 20 percent per capita reduction in urban water use statewide by 2020. The factors used to formulate water use efficiency targets can vary significantly from location to location based on factors including weather, patterns of urban and suburban development, and past efforts to enhance water use efficiency. Per capita water use is a valid measure of a water provider's efforts to reduce urban water use within its service area. However, per capita water use is less useful for measuring relative water use efficiency between different water providers. Differences in weather, historical patterns of urban and suburban development, and density of housing in a particular location need to be considered when assessing per capita water use as a measure of efficiency. 10608.4. It is the intent of the Legislature, by the enactment of this part, to do all of the following: Require all water suppliers to increase the efficiency of use of this essential resource. Establish a framework to meet the state targets for urban water conservation identified in this part and called for by the Governor. Measure increased efficiency of urban water use on a per capita basis. Establish a method or methods for urban retail water suppliers to determine targets for achieving increased water use efficiency by the year 2020, in accordance with the Governor's goal of a 20-percent reduction. Establish consistent water use efficiency planning and implementation standards for urban water suppliers and agricultural water suppliers. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-4 3/2/2011 Promote urban water conservation standards that are consistent with the California Urban Water Conservation Council's adopted best management practices and the requirements for demand management in Section 10631. Establish standards that recognize and provide credit to water suppliers that made substantial capital investments in urban water conservation since the drought of the early 1990s. Recognize and account for the investment of urban retail water suppliers in providing recycled water for beneficial uses. Require implementation of specified efficient water management practices for agricultural water suppliers. Support the economic productivity of California's agricultural, commercial, and industrial sectors. Advance regional water resources management. 10608.8. Water use efficiency measures adopted and implemented pursuant to this part or Part 2.8 (commencing with Section 10800) are water conservation measures subject to the protections provided under Section 1011. Because an urban agency is not required to meet its urban water use target until 2020 pursuant to subdivision of Section 10608.24, an urban retail water supplier's failure to meet those targets shall not establish a violation of law for purposes of any state administrative or judicial proceeding prior to January 1, 2021. Nothing in this paragraph limits the use of data reported to the department or the board in litigation or an administrative proceeding. This paragraph shall become inoperative on January 1, 2021. To the extent feasible, the department and the board shall provide for the use of water conservation reports required under this part to meet the requirements of Section 1011 for water conservation reporting. This part does not limit or otherwise affect the application of Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340), Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 11370), Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 11400), and Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 11500) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code. This part does not require a reduction in the total water used in the agricultural or urban sectors, because other factors, including, but not limited to, changes in agricultural economics or population growth may have greater effects on water ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-5 3/2/2011 use. This part does not limit the economic productivity of California's agricultural, commercial, or industrial sectors. The requirements of this part do not apply to an agricultural water supplier that is a party to the Quantification Settlement Agreement, as defined in subdivision of Section 1 of Chapter 617 of the Statutes of 2002, during the period within which the Quantification Settlement Agreement remains in effect. After the expiration of the Quantification Settlement Agreement, to the extent conservation water projects implemented as part of the Quantification Settlement Agreement remain in effect, the conserved water created as part of those projects shall be credited against the obligations of the agricultural water supplier pursuant to this part. Chapter 2. Definitions 10608.12. Unless the context otherwise requires, the following definitions govern the construction of this part: “Agricultural water supplier” means a water supplier, either publicly or privately owned, providing water to 10,000 or more irrigated acres, excluding recycled water. “Agricultural water supplier” includes a supplier or contractor for water, regardless of the basis of right, that distributes or sells water for ultimate resale to customers. “Agricultural water supplier” does not include the department. “Base daily per capita water use” means any of the following: The urban retail water supplier's estimate of its average gross water use, reported in gallons per capita per day and calculated over a continuous 10- year period ending no earlier than December 31, 2004, and no later than December 31, 2010. For an urban retail water supplier that meets at least 10 percent of its 2008 measured retail water demand through recycled water that is delivered within the service area of an urban retail water supplier or its urban wholesale water supplier, the urban retail water supplier may extend the calculation described in paragraph up to an additional five years to a maximum of a continuous 15-year period ending no earlier than December 31, 2004, and no later than December 31, 2010. For the purposes of Section 10608.22, the urban retail water supplier's estimate of its average gross water use, reported in gallons per capita per day and calculated over a continuous five-year period ending no earlier than December 31, 2007, and no later than December 31, 2010. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-6 3/2/2011 “Baseline commercial, industrial, and institutional water use” means an urban retail water supplier's base daily per capita water use for commercial, industrial, and institutional users. “Commercial water user” means a water user that provides or distributes a product or service. “Compliance daily per capita water use” means the gross water use during the final year of the reporting period, reported in gallons per capita per day. “Disadvantaged community” means a community with an annual median household income that is less than 80 percent of the statewide annual median household income. “Gross water use” means the total volume of water, whether treated or untreated, entering the distribution system of an urban retail water supplier, excluding all of the following: Recycled water that is delivered within the service area of an urban retail water supplier or its urban wholesale water supplier. The net volume of water that the urban retail water supplier places into long- term storage. The volume of water the urban retail water supplier conveys for use by another urban water supplier. The volume of water delivered for agricultural use, except as otherwise provided in subdivision of Section 10608.24. “Industrial water user” means a water user that is primarily a manufacturer or processor of materials as defined by the North American Industry Classification System code sectors 31 to 33, inclusive, or an entity that is a water user primarily engaged in research and development. “Institutional water user” means a water user dedicated to public service. This type of user includes, among other users, higher education institutions, schools, courts, churches, hospitals, government facilities, and nonprofit research institutions. “Interim urban water use target” means the midpoint between the urban retail water supplier's base daily per capita water use and the urban retail water supplier's urban water use target for 2020. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-7 3/2/2011 “Locally cost effective” means that the present value of the local benefits of implementing an agricultural efficiency water management practice is greater than or equal to the present value of the local cost of implementing that measure. “Process water” means water used for producing a product or product content or water used for research and development, including, but not limited to, continuous manufacturing processes, water used for testing and maintaining equipment used in producing a product or product content, and water used in combined heat and power facilities used in producing a product or product content. Process water does not mean incidental water uses not related to the production of a product or product content, including, but not limited to, water used for restrooms, landscaping, air conditioning, heating, kitchens, and laundry. “Recycled water” means recycled water, as defined in subdivision of Section 13050, that is used to offset potable demand, including recycled water supplied for direct use and indirect potable reuse, that meets the following requirements, where applicable: For groundwater recharge, including recharge through spreading basins, water supplies that are all of the following: Metered. Developed through planned investment by the urban water supplier or a wastewater treatment agency. Treated to a minimum tertiary level. Delivered within the service area of an urban retail water supplier or its urban wholesale water supplier that helps an urban retail water supplier meet its urban water use target. For reservoir augmentation, water supplies that meet the criteria of paragraph and are conveyed through a distribution system constructed specifically for recycled water. “Regional water resources management” means sources of supply resulting from watershed-based planning for sustainable local water reliability or any of the following alternative sources of water: The capture and reuse of stormwater or rainwater. The use of recycled water. The desalination of brackish groundwater. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-8 3/2/2011 The conjunctive use of surface water and groundwater in a manner that is consistent with the safe yield of the groundwater basin. “Reporting period” means the years for which an urban retail water supplier reports compliance with the urban water use targets. “Urban retail water supplier” means a water supplier, either publicly or privately owned, that directly provides potable municipal water to more than 3,000 end users or that supplies more than 3,000 acre-feet of potable water annually at retail for municipal purposes. “Urban water use target” means the urban retail water supplier's targeted future daily per capita water use. “Urban wholesale water supplier,” means a water supplier, either publicly or privately owned, that provides more than 3,000 acre-feet of water annually at wholesale for potable municipal purposes. Chapter 3. Urban Retail Water Suppliers 10608.16. The state shall achieve a 20-percent reduction in urban per capita water use in California on or before December 31, 2020. The state shall make incremental progress towards the state target specified in subdivision by reducing urban per capita water use by at least 10 percent on or before December 31, 2015. 10608.20. Each urban retail water supplier shall develop urban water use targets and an interim urban water use target by July 1, 2011. Urban retail water suppliers may elect to determine and report progress toward achieving these targets on an individual or regional basis, as provided in subdivision of Section 10608.28, and may determine the targets on a fiscal year or calendar year basis. It is the intent of the Legislature that the urban water use targets described in subdivision cumulatively result in a 20-percent reduction from the baseline daily per capita water use by December 31, 2020. An urban retail water supplier shall adopt one of the following methods for determining its urban water use target pursuant to subdivision Eighty percent of the urban retail water supplier's baseline per capita daily water use. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-9 3/2/2011 The per capita daily water use that is estimated using the sum of the following performance standards: For indoor residential water use, 55 gallons per capita daily water use as a provisional standard. Upon completion of the department's 2016 report to the Legislature pursuant to Section 10608.42, this standard may be adjusted by the Legislature by statute. For landscape irrigated through dedicated or residential meters or connections, water efficiency equivalent to the standards of the Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance set forth in Chapter 2.7 (commencing with Section 490) of Division 2 of Title 23 of the California Code of Regulations, as in effect the later of the year of the landscape's installation or 1992. An urban retail water supplier using the approach specified in this subparagraph shall use satellite imagery, site visits, or other best available technology to develop an accurate estimate of landscaped areas. For commercial, industrial, and institutional uses, a 10-percent reduction in water use from the baseline commercial, industrial, and institutional water use by 2020. Ninety-five percent of the applicable state hydrologic region target, as set forth in the state's draft 20x2020 Water Conservation Plan (dated April 30, 2009). If the service area of an urban water supplier includes more than one hydrologic region, the supplier shall apportion its service area to each region based on population or area. A method that shall be identified and developed by the department, through a public process, and reported to the Legislature no later than December 31, 2010. The method developed by the department shall identify per capita targets that cumulatively result in a statewide 20-percent reduction in urban daily per capita water use by December 31, 2020. In developing urban daily per capita water use targets, the department shall do all of the following: Consider climatic differences within the state. Consider population density differences within the state. Provide flexibility to communities and regions in meeting the targets. Consider different levels of per capita water use according to plant water needs in different regions. Consider different levels of commercial, industrial, and institutional water use in different regions of the state. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-10 3/2/2011 Avoid placing an undue hardship on communities that have implemented conservation measures or taken actions to keep per capita water use low. If the department adopts a regulation pursuant to paragraph of subdivision that results in a requirement that an urban retail water supplier achieve a reduction in daily per capita water use that is greater than 20 percent by December 31, 2020, an urban retail water supplier that adopted the method described in paragraph of subdivision may limit its urban water use target to a reduction of not more than 20 percent by December 31, 2020, by adopting the method described in paragraph of subdivision The department shall update the method described in paragraph of subdivision and report to the Legislature by December 31, 2014. An urban retail water supplier that adopted the method described in paragraph of subdivision may adopt a new urban daily per capita water use target pursuant to this updated method. An urban retail water supplier shall include in its urban water management plan required pursuant to Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 10610) due in 2010 the baseline daily per capita water use, urban water use target, interim urban water use target, and compliance daily per capita water use, along with the bases for determining those estimates, including references to supporting data. When calculating per capita values for the purposes of this chapter, an urban retail water supplier shall determine population using federal, state, and local population reports and projections. An urban retail water supplier may update its 2020 urban water use target in its 2015 urban water management plan required pursuant to Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 10610). The department, through a public process and in consultation with the California Urban Water Conservation Council, shall develop technical methodologies and criteria for the consistent implementation of this part, including, but not limited to, both of the following: Methodologies for calculating base daily per capita water use, baseline commercial, industrial, and institutional water use, compliance daily per capita water use, gross water use, service area population, indoor residential water use, and landscaped area water use. Criteria for adjustments pursuant to subdivisions and of Section 10608.24. The department shall post the methodologies and criteria developed pursuant to this subdivision on its Internet Web site, and make written copies ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-11 3/2/2011 available, by October 1, 2010. An urban retail water supplier shall use the methods developed by the department in compliance with this part. The department shall adopt regulations for implementation of the provisions relating to process water in accordance with subdivision of Section 10608.12, subdivision of Section 10608.24, and subdivision of Section 10608.26. The initial adoption of a regulation authorized by this subdivision is deemed to address an emergency, for purposes of Sections 11346.1 and 11349.6 of the Government Code, and the department is hereby exempted for that purpose from the requirements of subdivision of Section 11346.1 of the Government Code. After the initial adoption of an emergency regulation pursuant to this subdivision, the department shall not request approval from the Office of Administrative Law to readopt the regulation as an emergency regulation pursuant to Section 11346.1 of the Government Code. An urban retail water supplier shall be granted an extension to July 1, 2011, for adoption of an urban water management plan pursuant to Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 10610) due in 2010 to allow use of technical methodologies developed by the department pursuant to paragraph of subdivision and subdivision An urban retail water supplier that adopts an urban water management plan due in 2010 that does not use the methodologies developed by the department pursuant to subdivision shall amend the plan by July 1, 2011, to comply with this part. 10608.22. Notwithstanding the method adopted by an urban retail water supplier pursuant to Section 10608.20, an urban retail water supplier's per capita daily water use reduction shall be no less than 5 percent of base daily per capita water use as defined in paragraph of subdivision of Section 10608.12. This section does not apply to an urban retail water supplier with a base daily per capita water use at or below 100 gallons per capita per day. 10608.24. Each urban retail water supplier shall meet its interim urban water use target by December 31, 2015. Each urban retail water supplier shall meet its urban water use target by December 31, 2020. An urban retail water supplier's compliance daily per capita water use shall be the measure of progress toward achievement of its urban water use target. When determining compliance daily per capita water use, an urban retail water supplier may consider the following factors: ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-12 3/2/2011 Differences in evapotranspiration and rainfall in the baseline period compared to the compliance reporting period. Substantial changes to commercial or industrial water use resulting from increased business output and economic development that have occurred during the reporting period. Substantial changes to institutional water use resulting from fire suppression services or other extraordinary events, or from new or expanded operations, that have occurred during the reporting period. If the urban retail water supplier elects to adjust its estimate of compliance daily per capita water use due to one or more of the factors described in paragraph it shall provide the basis for, and data supporting, the adjustment in the report required by Section 10608.40. When developing the urban water use target pursuant to Section 10608.20, an urban retail water supplier that has a substantial percentage of industrial water use in its service area, may exclude process water from the calculation of gross water use to avoid a disproportionate burden on another customer sector. An urban retail water supplier that includes agricultural water use in an urban water management plan pursuant to Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 10610) may include the agricultural water use in determining gross water use. An urban retail water supplier that includes agricultural water use in determining gross water use and develops its urban water use target pursuant to paragraph of subdivision of Section 10608.20 shall use a water efficient standard for agricultural irrigation of 100 percent of reference evapotranspiration multiplied by the crop coefficient for irrigated acres. An urban retail water supplier, that is also an agricultural water supplier, is not subject to the requirements of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 10608.48), if the agricultural water use is incorporated into its urban water use target pursuant to paragraph 10608.26. In complying with this part, an urban retail water supplier shall conduct at least one public hearing to accomplish all of the following: Allow community input regarding the urban retail water supplier's implementation plan for complying with this part. Consider the economic impacts of the urban retail water supplier's implementation plan for complying with this part. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-13 3/2/2011 Adopt a method, pursuant to subdivision of Section 10608.20, for determining its urban water use target. In complying with this part, an urban retail water supplier may meet its urban water use target through efficiency improvements in any combination among its customer sectors. An urban retail water supplier shall avoid placing a disproportionate burden on any customer sector. For an urban retail water supplier that supplies water to a United States Department of Defense military installation, the urban retail water supplier's implementation plan for complying with this part shall consider the United States Department of Defense military installation's requirements under federal Executive Order 13423. Any ordinance or resolution adopted by an urban retail water supplier after the effective date of this section shall not require existing customers as of the effective date of this section, to undertake changes in product formulation, operations, or equipment that would reduce process water use, but may provide technical assistance and financial incentives to those customers to implement efficiency measures for process water. This section shall not limit an ordinance or resolution adopted pursuant to a declaration of drought emergency by an urban retail water supplier. This part shall not be construed or enforced so as to interfere with the requirements of Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 113980) to Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 114380), inclusive, of Part 7 of Division 104 of the Health and Safety Code, or any requirement or standard for the protection of public health, public safety, or worker safety established by federal, state, or local government or recommended by recognized standard setting organizations or trade associations. 10608.28. An urban retail water supplier may meet its urban water use target within its retail service area, or through mutual agreement, by any of the following: Through an urban wholesale water supplier. Through a regional agency authorized to plan and implement water conservation, including, but not limited to, an agency established under the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency Act (Division 31 (commencing with Section 81300)). Through a regional water management group as defined in Section 10537. By an integrated regional water management funding area. ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-14 3/2/2011 By hydrologic region. Through other appropriate geographic scales for which computation methods have been developed by the department. A regional water management group, with the written consent of its member agencies, may undertake any or all planning, reporting, and implementation functions under this chapter for the member agencies that consent to those activities. Any data or reports shall provide information both for the regional water management group and separately for each consenting urban retail water supplier and urban wholesale water supplier. 10608.32. All costs incurred pursuant to this part by a water utility regulated by the Public Utilities Commission may be recoverable in rates subject to review and approval by the Public Utilities Commission, and may be recorded in a memorandum account and reviewed for reasonableness by the Public Utilities Commission. 10608.36. Urban wholesale water suppliers shall include in the urban water management plans required pursuant to Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 10610) an assessment of their present and proposed future measures, programs, and policies to help achieve the water use reductions required by this part. 10608.40. Urban water retail suppliers shall report to the department on their progress in meeting their urban water use targets as part of their urban water management plans submitted pursuant to Section 10631. The data shall be reported using a standardized form developed pursuant to Section 10608.52. 10608.42. The department shall review the 2015 urban water management plans and report to the Legislature by December 31, 2016, on progress towards achieving a 20- percent reduction in urban water use by December 31, 2020. The report shall include recommendations on changes to water efficiency standards or urban water use targets in order to achieve the 20-percent reduction and to reflect updated efficiency information and technology changes. 10608.43. The department, in conjunction with the California Urban Water Conservation Council, by April 1, 2010, shall convene a representative task force consisting of academic experts, urban retail water suppliers, environmental organizations, commercial water users, industrial water users, and institutional water users to develop alternative best management practices for commercial, industrial, and institutional users and an assessment of the potential statewide water use efficiency improvement in the commercial, industrial, and institutional sectors that would result from implementation of these best management practices. The taskforce, in conjunction with the department, shall submit a report to the Legislature by April 1, 2012, that shall include a review of multiple sectors within commercial, industrial, and institutional users and that shall recommend water use efficiency standards for ---PAGE BREAK--- 2010 UWMP Guidebook Final L-15 3/2/2011 commercial, industrial, and institutional users among various sectors of water use. The report shall include, but not be limited to, the following: Appropriate metrics for evaluating commercial, industrial, and institutional water use. Evaluation of water demands for manufacturing processes, goods, and cooling. Evaluation of public infrastructure necessary for delivery of recycled water to the commercial, industrial, and institutional sectors. Evaluation of institutional and economic barriers to increased recycled water use within the commercial, industrial, and institutional sectors. Identification of technical feasibility and cost of the best management practices to achieve more efficient water use statewide in the commercial, industrial, and institutional sectors that is consistent with the public interest and reflects past investments in water use efficiency. 10608.44. Each state agency shall reduce water use on facilities it operates to support urban retail water suppliers in meeting the target identified in Section 10608.16. ---PAGE BREAK--- ---PAGE BREAK--- Senate Bill No. 1478 CHAPTER 295 An act to amend Section 10608.20 of the Water Code, relating to water conservation. [Approved by Governor September 23, 2010. Filed with Secretary of State September 24, 2010.] legislative counsel’s digest SB 1478, Committee on Natural Resources and Water. Water conservation: urban water management. Existing law imposes various water use reduction requirements that apply to urban retail water suppliers and agricultural water suppliers, including a requirement that the state achieve a 20% reduction in urban per capita water use by December 31, 2020. For the purpose of meeting this goal, an urban retail water supplier is required to develop urban water use targets and an interim water use target by July 1, 2011, and to take other related actions. Existing law requires an urban water supplier to prepare and adopt, and update every 5 years, an urban water management plan. Existing law grants a specified extension to an urban retail water supplier for the adoption of an urban water management plan that is due in 2010, to allow use of certain technical methodologies that the Department of Water Resources is required to develop for purposes of those water use reduction provisions. Existing law requires an urban retail water supplier that adopts an urban water management plan in 2010 that does not include those technical methodologies to amend the plan by July 1, 2011, as specified. This bill would grant the extension for adoption of an urban water management plan that is due in 2010 to an urban wholesale water supplier to permit coordination between an urban wholesale water supplier and urban retail water suppliers. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 10608.20 of the Water Code is amended to read: 10608.20. Each urban retail water supplier shall develop urban water use targets and an interim urban water use target by July 1, 2011. Urban retail water suppliers may elect to determine and report progress toward achieving these targets on an individual or regional basis, as provided in subdivision of Section 10608.28, and may determine the targets on a fiscal year or calendar year basis. 94 ---PAGE BREAK--- It is the intent of the Legislature that the urban water use targets described in paragraph cumulatively result in a 20-percent reduction from the baseline daily per capita water use by December 31, 2020. An urban retail water supplier shall adopt one of the following methods for determining its urban water use target pursuant to subdivision Eighty percent of the urban retail water supplier’s baseline per capita daily water use. The per capita daily water use that is estimated using the sum of the following performance standards: For indoor residential water use, 55 gallons per capita daily water use as a provisional standard. Upon completion of the department’s 2016 report to the Legislature pursuant to Section 10608.42, this standard may be adjusted by the Legislature by statute. For landscape irrigated through dedicated or residential meters or connections, water efficiency equivalent to the standards of the Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance set forth in Chapter 2.7 (commencing with Section 490) of Division 2 of Title 23 of the California Code of Regulations, as in effect the later of the year of the landscape’s installation or 1992. An urban retail water supplier using the approach specified in this subparagraph shall use satellite imagery, site visits, or other best available technology to develop an accurate estimate of landscaped areas. For commercial, industrial, and institutional uses, a 10-percent reduction in water use from the baseline commercial, industrial, and institutional water use by 2020. Ninety-five percent of the applicable state hydrologic region target, as set forth in the state’s draft 20x2020 Water Conservation Plan (dated April 30, 2009). If the service area of an urban water supplier includes more than one hydrologic region, the supplier shall apportion its service area to each region based on population or area. A method that shall be identified and developed by the department, through a public process, and reported to the Legislature no later than December 31, 2010. The method developed by the department shall identify per capita targets that cumulatively result in a statewide 20-percent reduction in urban daily per capita water use by December 31, 2020. In developing urban daily per capita water use targets, the department shall do all of the following: Consider climatic differences within the state. Consider population density differences within the state. Provide flexibility to communities and regions in meeting the targets. Consider different levels of per capita water use according to plant water needs in different regions. Consider different levels of commercial, industrial, and institutional water use in different regions of the state. Avoid placing an undue hardship on communities that have implemented conservation measures or taken actions to keep per capita water use low. 94 — 2 — Ch. 295 ---PAGE BREAK--- If the department adopts a regulation pursuant to paragraph of subdivision that results in a requirement that an urban retail water supplier achieve a reduction in daily per capita water use that is greater than 20 percent by December 31, 2020, an urban retail water supplier that adopted the method described in paragraph of subdivision may limit its urban water use target to a reduction of not more than 20 percent by December 31, 2020, by adopting the method described in paragraph of subdivision The department shall update the method described in paragraph of subdivision and report to the Legislature by December 31, 2014. An urban retail water supplier that adopted the method described in paragraph of subdivision may adopt a new urban daily per capita water use target pursuant to this updated method. An urban retail water supplier shall include in its urban water management plan due in 2010 pursuant to Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 10610) the baseline daily per capita water use, urban water use target, interim urban water use target, and compliance daily per capita water use, along with the bases for determining those estimates, including references to supporting data. When calculating per capita values for the purposes of this chapter, an urban retail water supplier shall determine population using federal, state, and local population reports and projections. An urban retail water supplier may update its 2020 urban water use target in its 2015 urban water management plan required pursuant to Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 10610). The department, through a public process and in consultation with the California Urban Water Conservation Council, shall develop technical methodologies and criteria for the consistent implementation of this part, including, but not limited to, both of the following: Methodologies for calculating base daily per capita water use, baseline commercial, industrial, and institutional water use, compliance daily per capita water use, gross water use, service area population, indoor residential water use, and landscaped area water use. Criteria for adjustments pursuant to subdivisions and of Section 10608.24. The department shall post the methodologies and criteria developed pursuant to this subdivision on its Internet Web site, and make written copies available, by October 1, 2010. An urban retail water supplier shall use the methods developed by the department in compliance with this part. The department shall adopt regulations for implementation of the provisions relating to process water in accordance with subdivision of Section 10608.12, subdivision of Section 10608.24, and subdivision of Section 10608.26. The initial adoption of a regulation authorized by this subdivision is deemed to address an emergency, for purposes of Sections 11346.1 and 11349.6 of the Government Code, and the department is hereby exempted for that purpose from the requirements of subdivision of Section 11346.1 94 Ch. 295 — 3 — ---PAGE BREAK--- of the Government Code. After the initial adoption of an emergency regulation pursuant to this subdivision, the department shall not request approval from the Office of Administrative Law to readopt the regulation as an emergency regulation pursuant to Section 11346.1 of the Government Code. An urban retail water supplier is granted an extension to July 1, 2011, for adoption of an urban water management plan pursuant to Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 10610) due in 2010 to allow the use of technical methodologies developed by the department pursuant to paragraph of subdivision and subdivision An urban retail water supplier that adopts an urban water management plan due in 2010 that does not use the methodologies developed by the department pursuant to subdivision shall amend the plan by July 1, 2011, to comply with this part. An urban wholesale water supplier whose urban water management plan prepared pursuant to Part 2.6 (commencing with Section 10610) was due and not submitted in 2010 is granted an extension to July 1, 2011, to permit coordination between an urban wholesale water supplier and urban retail water suppliers. O 94 — 4 — Ch. 295