AB 2000

Bill Subjects

State Water Project Permit And License Conditions

Abstract

Under existing law, the Department of Water Resources operates the State Water Project, which includes state water facilities, as defined. Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board administers a water rights program pursuant to which the state board grants permits and licenses to appropriate water. Existing law requires the director of the department, in collaboration with the Secretary of the Interior, to prepare a plan, on or before January 1, 2006, to meet the existing permit and license conditions for which the department has an obligation, and to submit copies of the plan to the state board and the California Bay-Delta Authority prior to increasing the existing permitted diversion rate at the State Water Project's Harvey O. Banks Pumping Plant. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to the latter provision.