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<ns0:ActionText>INTRODUCED</ns0:ActionText>
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<ns0:AuthorText authorType="LEAD_AUTHOR">Introduced by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry</ns0:AuthorText>
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<ns0:Title> An act relating to groundwater. </ns0:Title>
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<ns0:Subject>Groundwater recharge.</ns0:Subject>
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<html:p>Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater plans, except as specified.</html:p>
<html:p>This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to further increase groundwater storage and remove impediments to recharge in a way that will maximize groundwater recharge while protecting water rights and communities, state and federal water projects, and environmental needs, as provided.</html:p>
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(a)
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The Legislature finds and declares as follows:
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(1)
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The Governor, over the past decade, has issued several executive orders to maximize every opportunity to recharge our groundwater supplies, thereby boosting our water supplies for communities and farms throughout the state and preparing for our hotter, drier future.
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(2)
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The recommendations of the Governor and state agencies implementing these programs and working with local groundwater sustainability agencies and water suppliers will guide legislation to advance groundwater recharge and better prepare our communities and farms for our hotter, drier future.
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(b)
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It is the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to further increase groundwater storage and remove impediments to recharge in a way that will maximize groundwater recharge while protecting water rights and communities, state and federal water projects, and environmental needs, including changes to the temporary urgency permitting for groundwater recharge, refining the process for unpermitted diversion of flood flows, and improving the process for permitted groundwater recharge.
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