California Assembly Bill AB903 Introduced / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 903INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Bill Berryhill FEBRUARY 17, 2011 An act to amend Section 12200 of the Water Code, relating to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 903, as introduced, Bill Berryhill. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. Under existing law, legislative findings and declarations state, among other things, that the water problems of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are unique within the state and that a general law cannot be made applicable to the Delta. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those legislative findings and declarations. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 12200 of the Water Code is amended to read: 12200.  (a)    The Legislature hereby finds  that the   all of the following:   (1)     The  water problems of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are unique within the  State; the   state.   (2)     The  Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers join at the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta to discharge their fresh water flows into Suisun, San Pablo  ,  and San Francisco Bays  ,  and  thence   from there  into the Pacific Ocean  ; the   .   The  merging of fresh water with saline bay waters and drainage waters  ,  and the withdrawal of fresh water for beneficial uses  ,  creates an acute problem of salinity intrusion into the vast network of channels and sloughs of the Delta  ; the   .   (3)     The  State Water Resources Development System has as one of its objectives the transfer of waters from water-surplus areas in the Sacramento Valley and the north coastal area to water-deficient areas to the south and west of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta via the Delta  ; water   . Water  surplus to the needs of the areas in which it originates is gathered in the Delta and thereby provides a common source of fresh water supply for water-deficient areas.  It  (  b)     It  is, therefore, hereby declared that a general law cannot be made applicable to  said   the  Delta and that the enactment of this law is necessary for the protection, conservation, development, control  ,  and use of the waters in the Delta for the public good.