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Assembly, Senate pass water bills

Posted by: Maven on June 12, 2009 at 7:41 am

From the Capital Press:

California’s legislature has advanced 10 bills that address the aspects of Delta management laid out last year by a governor-appointed task force.

Former members of Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force have described 16 bills as relevant to all or parts of the group’s recommendations. Six of them passed the Senate last week, while four more passed the Assembly. They address such subjects as water conservation and recycling, Delta governance and efficiency of urban water use.

The task force completed its final strategic plan on management of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta in October of last year.

In March, the task force members regrouped to form the Delta Vision Foundation, with the aim of nudging the governor and legislators into action. The group calls the legislature’s current crop of delta-related bills insufficient to meet the challenges of delta management.

“There is not yet a comprehensive piece of legislation addressing the delta ecosystem,” Isenberg said. “That needs to be put on the table. When you have a lot of individual bills floating around, one thing that happens is all of them … tend to conflict with each other.”

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June 12, 2009 · Filed Under Legislation - State & Federal

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