California Assembly Bill AB824 Amended / Bill

 BILL NUMBER: AB 824AMENDED BILL TEXT AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY MARCH 26, 2015 INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Gatto FEBRUARY 26, 2015  An act to amend Section 13520 of the Water Code, relating to water.   An act to amend Section 4137 of the Public Resources Code, relating to fire protection.  LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 824, as amended, Gatto.  Recycled water: recycling criteria.   Fire prevention activities.   Existing law requires the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to classify all lands within the state, without regard to any classification of lands made by or for any federal agency or purpose, for the purpose of determining areas in which the financial responsibility of preventing and suppressing fires is primarily the responsibility of the state.   Existing law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to provide an annual report to the Legislature detailing the department's fire prevention activities, as described. Existing law requires the report to include specified data and information.   This bill would, for purposes of this report, describe "fire prevention activities" to include coordination and cooperation with the federal government. The bill would require the report to include a map of the areas of coordination between the department and the federal government, as provided.   Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, requires the State Department of Public Health to establish uniform statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use of recycled water if the use involves the protection of public health. The act defines recycling criteria to mean the levels of constituents of recycled water, and the means for assurance of reliability under the design concept that will result in recycled water that is safe for the uses to be made.   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that definition.  Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee:  no   yes  . State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:  SECTION 1.   Section 4137 of the   Public Resources Code   is amended to read:  4137. (a) For purposes of this section, "fire prevention activities" include, but are not limited to, all of the following: (1) Fire prevention education. (2) Hazardous fuel reduction and vegetation management. (3) Fire investigation. (4) Civil cost recovery. (5) Forest and fire law enforcement. (6) Fire prevention engineering. (7) Prefire planning. (8) Risk analysis. (9) Volunteer programs and partnerships.  (10) Coordination and cooperation with the federal government.  (b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the year-round staffing and the extension of the workweek that has been provided to the department pursuant to memorandums of understanding with the state will result in significant increases in the department's current level of fire prevention activities. It is also the intent of the Legislature that the budgetary augmentations for year-round staffing not reduce the reimbursements that the department receives from contracts with local governments for the department to provide local fire protection and emergency services pursuant to Section 4144, commonly referred to as "Amador agreements." (c) On or before January 10 of each year, the department shall provide a report to the Legislature, including the budget and fiscal committees of the Assembly and the Senate, in accordance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, detailing the department's fire prevention activities, including the increased activities described in subdivision (b). The report shall display the fire prevention activities of the previous fiscal year, as well as the information from previous reports for purposes of a comparison of data. The report shall include all of the following: (1) Fire prevention activities performed by the department on lands designated as state responsibility areas, and by counties, where, pursuant to a contract with the department, a county has agreed to provide fire protection services in state responsibility areas within county boundaries on behalf of the department. The fire prevention activities included in the report pursuant to this paragraph shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following: (A) The number of hours of fire prevention education performed. (B) The number of defensible space inspections conducted, including statewide totals and totals for each region. (C) The number of citations issued for noncompliance with Section 4291. (D) The number of acres treated by mechanical fuel reduction. (E) The number of acres treated by prescribed burns. (F) Any other data or qualitative information deemed necessary by the department in order to provide the Legislature with a clear and accurate accounting of fire prevention activities, particularly with regard to variations from one year to the next.  (G) A map of the areas of coordination between the department and the federal government, particularly in areas of high fire hazard severity or in wildlife-urban interface areas.  (2) The fire prevention performance measures described in subparagraphs (A) to  (F),   (G),  inclusive, of paragraph (1) shall be reported for each region annually, including activities performed from December 15 to April 15, inclusive. (3) Projected fire prevention activities for the following fiscal year. (4) Information on each of the "Amador  contracts"   agreements"  described in subdivision (b), including an annual update on the number of those  contracts   agreements  and reimbursements received from the  contracts   agreements  that are in effect.  SECTION 1.   Section 13520 of the Water Code is amended to read: 13520. As used in this article "recycling criteria" are the levels of constituents of recycled water, and the means for assurance of reliability under the design concept that will result in recycled water that is safe from the standpoint of public health, for the uses to be made of the recycled water.