Title WAT, California Water Code

(a) The department shall periodically review the groundwater sustainability plans developed by groundwater sustainability agencies pursuant to this part to evaluate whether a plan conforms with Sections 10727.2 and 10727.4 and is likely to achieve the sustainability goal for the …

(a) (1) By June 1, 2016, the department shall adopt regulations for evaluating groundwater sustainability plans, the implementation of groundwater sustainability plans, and coordination agreements pursuant to this chapter. (2) The regulations shall identify the necessary plan com…

(a) Upon adoption of a groundwater sustainability plan, a groundwater sustainability agency shall submit the groundwater sustainability plan to the department for review pursuant to this chapter. (b) If groundwater sustainability agencies develop multiple groundwater sustainabili…

(a) If a local agency believes that an alternative described in subdivision (b) satisfies the objectives of this part, the local agency may submit the alternative to the department for evaluation and assessment of whether the alternative satisfies the objectives of this part for …

At least every five years after initial submission of a plan pursuant to Section 10733.4, the department shall review any available groundwater sustainability plan or alternative submitted in accordance with Section 10733.6, and the implementation of the corresponding groundwater…

Water appropriated under the Water Commission Act or this code for one specific purpose shall not be deemed to be appropriated for any other or different purpose, but the purpose of the use of such water may be changed as provided in this code. (Enacted by Stats. 1943, Ch. 368.)

At any time after notice of an application is given, an applicant, permittee, or licensee may change the point of diversion, place of use, purpose of use, or any other provision or condition from that specified in the application, permit, or license; but that change may be made o…

(a) After notice of an application is given, the board may make a minor change to the application without requiring the filing of a petition for change if the board finds all of the following: (1) The change does not enlarge or increase the authorized rate, amount, or season of d…

(a) The board may make a minor change to a permit or license without requiring the filing of a petition for change if the board finds all of the following: (1) The change involves a minor adjustment of the point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use. (2) The change will n…

A petition for change filed after notice of an application shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) State the name and address of the petitioner. (b) Be signed by the petitioner, or the petitioner’s agent or attorney. (c) Set forth amendments to the application or an ame…

A petition for change in a permit or license shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) State the name and address of the petitioner. (b) Be signed by the petitioner, or the petitioner’s agent or attorney. (c) Include all information reasonably available to the petitioner,…

(a) After a petition is filed, the board may request additional information reasonably necessary to clarify, amplify, correct, or otherwise supplement the information required to be submitted under this chapter. The board shall provide a reasonable period for submitting the infor…

If, within the period provided, the petitioner does not provide the information requested pursuant to Section 1701.3, the board shall cancel the petition, unless, for good cause shown, the board allows additional time to submit the requested information. (Added by Stats. 2001, Ch…

Before permission to make such a change is granted the petitioner shall establish, to the satisfaction of the board, and it shall find, that the change will not operate to the injury of any legal user of the water involved. (Amended by Stats. 1957, Ch. 1932.)

After filing a petition for permission to make a change, the petitioner, in case the board so requires, shall cause notice thereof to be given or published in the manner prescribed by the board. In all cases the petitioner shall notify the Department of Fish and Wildlife in writi…

Any interested person, within the time allowed in the notice of petition, or within the time the board may allow for good cause shown, may file with the board a written protest against approval of the petition. (Added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 315, Sec. 10. Effective January 1, 2002.)

The protest shall meet all of the following requirements: (a) State the name and address of the protestant. (b) Be signed by the protestant, or the protestant’s agent or attorney. (c) Clearly and specifically set forth the protestant’s objections to the approval of the petition, …

The board may request from the protestant additional information reasonably necessary to clarify, amplify, correct, or otherwise supplement the information required to be submitted pursuant to Section 1703.2. The board shall provide a reasonable period for submitting the informat…

The protestant and the petitioner shall make a good faith effort to resolve the protest not later than 180 days from the date the period provided pursuant to Section 1703.1 expires. For good cause, the board may allow additional time for the protestant and the petitioner to attem…

The board may request from the protestant or the petitioner additional information that the board determines is reasonably necessary to attempt to resolve the protest. The board shall provide a reasonable period for submitting the information, and may allow additional time for go…

(a) The board may cancel a protest or petition for failure to provide information requested by the board under this chapter within the period provided. (b) Except as provided in subdivisions (c) and (d), the board shall not cancel a protest for failure to submit information not i…

(a) The board, after a hearing, may approve with conditions, or deny, a petition. (b) Notice of hearing shall be given by mailing the notice not less than 20 days before the date of hearing to the petitioner and to any protestant by registered mail. (c) (1) The board may, but is …

The Division of Water Rights shall conduct a field investigation of all minor protested petitions for change. The board shall notify the parties of the field investigation not less than 20 days prior to conducting the field investigation, to enable the parties to attend and prese…

The Division of Water Rights may request the parties to submit information in support of their positions. The Division of Water Rights may request information before, during, or after the field investigation. After the field investigation, the Division of Water Rights may conduct…

Based upon the field investigation and any other information obtained under this chapter, the Division of Water Rights shall issue an order acting on the minor petition for change unless the board in its discretion determines that additional proceedings should be conducted under …

For purposes of this chapter, a minor petition for change means either of the following: (a) Any petition which does not involve direct diversions in excess of three cubic-feet per second or storage in excess of 200 acre-feet per year. (b) A petition for change by a groundwater s…

After the hearing, the board shall grant or refuse, as the facts warrant, permission to change the point of diversion, place of use, purpose of use, or any other provision or condition. (Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 255, Sec. 4. (SB 779) Effective January 1, 2020.)

The person entitled to the use of water by virtue of an appropriation other than under the Water Commission Act or this code may change the point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use if others are not injured by such change, and may extend the ditch, flume, pipe, or aque…

(a) (1) Any person entitled to the use of water, whether based upon an appropriative, riparian, or other right, may petition the board pursuant to this chapter, Chapter 6.6 (commencing with Section 1435) or Chapter 10.5 (commencing with Section 1725) for a change for purposes of …

Upon the inclusion of any land within a district pursuant to Chapter 2 of Part 10 of this division an assessment shall be levied upon the land, the amount of the assessment against each tract or parcel to be the amount, as nearly as can be determined, of all assessments, other th…

The board shall appoint commissioners to make the assessment in the number and manner provided in Article 1 (commencing with Section 46150) of Chapter 2 of this part. (Amended by Stats. 1992, Ch. 1020, Sec. 126. Effective January 1, 1993.)

The assessment shall be made in the same manner and with the same incidents as an original assessment under Chapter 2 of this part, and all of the provisions of this division as to assessments shall, so far as they are applicable, apply to such assessment. (Added by Stats. 1951, …

(a) The department and the board have discretion to provide advance payments to local agencies for projects that satisfy the following criteria: (1) Have at least one of the following project purposes: (A) Restoring habitat for threatened and endangered species under state or fed…

The proceeds of bonds issued and sold pursuant to this division shall be deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Safe, Clean, Reliable Water Supply Fund, created by Section 78505. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 204 at the November 5, …

Bonds in the total amount of nine hundred ninety-five million dollars ($995,000,000), not including the amount of any refunding bonds issued in accordance with Section 78700, or as much thereof as is necessary, may be issued and sold to provide a fund to be used for carrying out …

Notwithstanding any other law, nine million nine hundred thousand dollars ($9,900,000) of the unissued bonds authorized for the purposes of Sections 78550 to 78551, inclusive, three million two hundred thousand dollars ($3,200,000) of the unissued bonds authorized for the purpose…

(a) The bonds authorized by this division shall be prepared, executed, issued, sold, paid, and redeemed as provided in the State General Obligation Bond Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 16720) of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code), and all of the provi…

Solely for the purpose of authorizing the issuance and sale, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of the bonds authorized by this division, the Safe, Clean, Reliable Water Supply Finance Committee is hereby created. For purposes of this division, the Safe, Clean, Re…

The committee shall determine whether or not it is necessary or desirable to issue bonds authorized pursuant to this division in order to carry out the actions specified in this division and, if so, the amount of bonds to be issued and sold. Successive issues of bonds may be auth…

There shall be collected each year and in the same manner and at the same time as other state revenue is collected, in addition to the ordinary revenues of the state, a sum in an amount required to pay the principal of, and interest on, the bonds each year. It is the duty of all …

Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, there is hereby appropriated from the General Fund in the State Treasury, for the purposes of this division, an amount that will equal the total of the following: (a) The sum annually necessary to pay the principal of, and int…

For the purposes of carrying out this division, the Director of Finance may authorize the withdrawal from the General Fund of an amount not to exceed the amount of the unsold bonds which have been authorized by the committee to be sold for the purpose of carrying out this divisio…

All money deposited in the fund that is derived from premium and accrued interest on bonds sold shall be reserved in the fund and shall be available for transfer to the General Fund as a credit to expenditures for bond interest. (Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved in…

The State Water Resources Control Board may request the Pooled Money Investment Board to make a loan from the Pooled Money Investment Account in accordance with Section 16312 of the Government Code for the purposes of carrying out this division. The amount of the request shall no…

The bonds may be refunded in accordance with Article 6 (commencing with Section 16780) of Chapter 4 of Part 3 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Government Code, which is a part of the State General Obligation Bond Law. Approval by the voters of the state for the issuance of the bon…

Notwithstanding any provision of this division or the State General Obligation Bond Law, if the Treasurer sells bonds pursuant to this division that include a bond counsel opinion to the effect that the interest on the bonds is excluded from gross income for federal tax purposes,…