Yesterday we shared how Assemblyman Jim Frazier (D-Oakley), Chair of the Assembly Committee on Accountability and Administrative Review, held a fiscal oversight hearing regarding the proposed funding structure for the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP). In response to the hearing, he introduced Assembly Bill 1671 to combat the cost of the BDCP.
The next is now available and in some of the shortest legislation we have seen, its a common sense approach to control cost.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST
AB 1671, as introduced, Frazier. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: water conveyance system.
Under existing law, the United States Bureau of Reclamation operates the federal Central Valley Project and the Department of Water Resources operates the State Water Resources Development System, known as the State Water Project, to supply water to persons and entities in the state. Existing law provides for the design, construction, operation, and maintenance of water development facilities by the state, including the State Water Project. Under existing law, State Water Project facilities include, among others, the facilities that are specified or authorized by the Legislature as part of the state Central Valley Project.
This bill would prohibit the department from constructing water facilities as part of a specified water conveyance system unless specifically authorized by the Legislature.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 11291 is added to the Water Code, to read:
11291.
(a) The department shall not construct water facilities as part of a water conveyance system that would convey water from north Delta intakes by tunnel to the State Water Resources Development System or the federal Central Valley Project pumping facilities in the south Delta, unless specifically authorized by the Legislature.
(b) For the purposes of this section, “Delta” means the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, as defined in Section 12220.
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Pray it passes. Someone needs to protect our Delta and water supply. Big agriculture business in the Central Valley would take it all until no longer usable then go after someone elses water supply while having a huge unerground water supply they can take from. Shame on them!
Brevity is a virtue. Thank you Mr. Frazier for saying in a very few words what needs to be said.
How about Jim authoring a similar bill for the Governor’s Train-to-nowhere fiasco. This is also HUGHLY expensive and needs big-time oversight (or elimination)!
You all missed the point! Assemblymen Frazier is only concerned about the cost of the tunneling project, he never said that he is against the tunneling project. This is very typical of him, he never makes statements for or against anything cause he is spine-less. Oh, but he will attend all the public outreach meetings and try to look like a hero.
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