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AB1876
AB1876, authored by Assemblymember Wilma Chan, is
designed to amend AB411, the State's Beach Bathing
Water Standards and Public Notification Program, to
add 50 additional beach monitoring locations in the
San Francisco Bay to the more than 450 ocean shoreline
locations currently monitored statewide. The original
regulation only required the monitoring of ocean shoreline
beaches with 50,000 visitors and impacted by a pollution
source, such as a storm drain, river, or creek, from
April through October. This bill will expand the existing
monitoring coverage so that San Francisco Bay beachgoers
can experience the same level of protection their ocean
counterparts currently enjoy, which is a minimum of
weekly water quality monitoring for indicator bacteria,
and subsequent public notification programs when exceedances
occur.
ACA10
(update)
ACA10, authored by Assemblymember Tom Harman, would
give local governments more flexibility to achieve
reductions in stormwater and urban runoff pollution.
Currently, Proposition 218
exempts only water, sewer and refuse programs from needing a 2/3 majority vote
by municipalities for raising fees, and instead requires
a simple majority vote. This bill would add stormwater
and urban runoff, the nexus of water and sewer pollution, to this short list
of exemptions. This
change would be within the spirit of Prop 218, yet afford localities the ability
to reduce this health, environmental, and economic
threat. Currently, the State legislature has failed
to act on
this critical issue.
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