LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


AB 153, as amended, Hernandez. Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking
Water Supply Act of 2012: groundwater contamination.
Existing law creates the Safe, Clean, and Reliable Drinking Water
Supply Act of 2012, which, if approved by the voters, would authorize
the issuance of bonds in the amount of $11,140,000,000 pursuant to
the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance a safe drinking
water and water supply reliability program.
The bond act, among other things, would make $1,000,000,000
available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for expenditures,
grants, and loans for projects to prevent or reduce the contamination
of groundwater that serves as a source of drinking water, and would
require funds appropriated pursuant to that authority to be available
to the State Department of Public Health for groundwater
contamination projects. Of that amount, the bond act would require
not less than $100,000,000 to be available for projects that meet
prescribed requirements and criteria, including addressing
contamination at a site on a specified list maintained by the
Department of Toxic Substances Control or a site listed on the
National Priorities List.
This bill would instead require not less than $100,000,000 to be
available for costs associated with projects, programs, or activities
that meet those prescribed requirements and criteria.
The bill would require the Secretary of State to include the
changes made by this bill when submitting the bond act to the voters
at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.

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