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Water deal still up in the air with only hours left in legislative session

Posted by: Maven on September 11, 2009 at 6:55 pm

From Bettina Boxall from the LA Times blog LA Now, reporting from Sacramento:

“With the close of the legislative session hours away, the fate of an ambitious set of water proposals remains up in the air.

Negotiations continued on a big bond and policy package put together by Democrats. As it now stands, one bill calls for nearly $12 billion in water-related financing, spread over two general obligation bonds that would be put before voters in 2010 and 2014. It would require two-thirds legislative approval.

A second bill, requiring majority legislative approval, would wrap together five policy proposals addressing a broad range of issues. They include urban water conservation, water rights and creation of a council dealing with the Sacramento-San Joaquin delta, the hub of California’s waterworks.

“I don’t know if we’ll succeed tonight or not,” Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento) said this afternoon. “But if we don’t, we will have moved this issue to a place of when, not if.” …”

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September 11, 2009 · Filed Under Legislation - State & Federal

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