State Water Resources Control Board: drinking water: hexavalent chromium removal., the official text

An act to add Section 116365.7 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to water, and making an appropriation therefor.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

The California Safe Drinking Water Act provides for the operation of public water systems and imposes on the State Water Resources Control Board various duties and responsibilities for the regulation and control of drinking water in the State of California. The act requires the state board to adopt primary drinking water standards for contaminants in drinking water based upon specified criteria, and requires a primary drinking water standard to be established for hexavalent chromium.
This bill would appropriate $69,425,000 from the General Fund to the board for the purpose of removing hexavalent chromium from drinking water. The bill would require the board to make specified grants to specified entities to undertake construction or planning and design of facilities to remove hexavalent chromium from drinking water.

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

SECTION 1.
Section 116365.7 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:
116365.7.
(a) Sixty-nine million four hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($69,425,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the State Water Resources Control Board for the purpose of removing hexavalent chromium from drinking water.
(b) The State Water Resources Control Board shall provide grants to undertake construction or planning and design of facilities to remove hexavalent chromium from drinking water as follows:
(1) A grant of nine million three hundred thousand dollars ($9,300,000) to the Coachella Valley Water District.
(2) A grant of ten million dollars ($10,000,000) to the Mission Springs Water District.
(3) A grant of three million dollars ($3,000,000) to the Indio Water Authority.
(4) A grant of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the City of Watsonville.
(5) A grant of two million dollars ($2,000,000) to the Sunnyslope County Water District.
(6) A grant of eighteen million dollars ($18,000,000) to the Soquel Creek Water District.
(7) A grant of four million dollars ($4,000,000) to the City of Los Banos.
(8) A grant of twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) to the City of Coachella.
(9) A grant of one million one hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($1,125,000) to the City of Banning.