Amended in Assembly March 26, 2015

California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly BillNo. 824


Introduced by Assembly Member Gatto

February 26, 2015


begin deleteAn act to amend Section 13520 of the Water Code, relating to water. end deletebegin insertAn act to amend Section 4137 of the Public Resources Code, relating to fire protection.end insert

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

AB 824, as amended, Gatto. begin deleteRecycled water: recycling criteria. end deletebegin insertFire prevention activities.end insert

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Existing law requires the Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to classify all lands within the state, without regard to any classification of lands made by or for any federal agency or purpose, for the purpose of determining areas in which the financial responsibility of preventing and suppressing fires is primarily the responsibility of the state.

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Existing law requires the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection to provide an annual report to the Legislature detailing the department’s fire prevention activities, as described. Existing law requires the report to include specified data and information.

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This bill would, for purposes of this report, describe “fire prevention activities” to include coordination and cooperation with the federal government. The bill would require the report to include a map of the areas of coordination between the department and the federal government, as provided.

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Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, requires the State Department of Public Health to establish uniform statewide recycling criteria for each varying type of use of recycled water if the use involves the protection of public health. The act defines recycling criteria to mean the levels of constituents of recycled water, and the means for assurance of reliability under the design concept that will result in recycled water that is safe for the uses to be made.

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This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that definition.

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Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: begin deleteno end deletebegin insertyesend insert. State-mandated local program: no.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

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begin insertSection 4137 of the end insertbegin insertPublic Resources Codeend insertbegin insert is
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4137.  

(a) For purposes of this section, “fire prevention
4activities” include, but are not limited to, all of the following:

5(1) Fire prevention education.

6(2) Hazardous fuel reduction and vegetation management.

7(3) Fire investigation.

8(4) Civil cost recovery.

9(5) Forest and fire law enforcement.

10(6) Fire prevention engineering.

11(7) Prefire planning.

12(8) Risk analysis.

13(9) Volunteer programs and partnerships.

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14(10) Coordination and cooperation with the federal government.

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15(b) It is the intent of the Legislature that the year-round staffing
16and the extension of the workweek that has been provided to the
17department pursuant to memorandums of understanding with the
18state will result in significant increases in the department’s current
19level of fire prevention activities. It is also the intent of the
20Legislature that the budgetary augmentations for year-round
21staffing not reduce the reimbursements that the department receives
22from contracts with local governments for the department to
23provide local fire protection and emergency services pursuant to
24Section 4144, commonly referred to as “Amador agreements.”

25(c) On or before January 10 of each year, the department shall
26provide a report to the Legislature, including the budget and fiscal
27committees of the Assembly and the Senate, in accordance with
28Section 9795 of the Government Code, detailing the department’s
29fire prevention activities, including the increased activities
P3    1described in subdivision (b). The report shall display the fire
2prevention activities of the previous fiscal year, as well as the
3information from previous reports for purposes of a comparison
4of data. The report shall include all of the following:

5(1) Fire prevention activities performed by the department on
6lands designated as state responsibility areas, and by counties,
7where, pursuant to a contract with the department, a county has
8agreed to provide fire protection services in state responsibility
9areas within county boundaries on behalf of the department. The
10fire prevention activities included in the report pursuant to this
11paragraph shall include, but not be limited to, all of the following:

12(A) The number of hours of fire prevention education performed.

13(B) The number of defensible space inspections conducted,
14including statewide totals and totals for each region.

15(C) The number of citations issued for noncompliance with
16Section 4291.

17(D) The number of acres treated by mechanical fuel reduction.

18(E) The number of acres treated by prescribed burns.

19(F) Any other data or qualitative information deemed necessary
20by the department in order to provide the Legislature with a clear
21and accurate accounting of fire prevention activities, particularly
22with regard to variations from one year to the next.

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23(G) A map of the areas of coordination between the department
24and the federal government, particularly in areas of high fire
25hazard severity or in wildlife-urban interface areas.

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26(2) The fire prevention performance measures described in
27subparagraphs (A) tobegin delete (F),end deletebegin insert (G),end insert inclusive, of paragraph (1) shall be
28reported for each region annually, including activities performed
29from December 15 to April 15, inclusive.

30(3) Projected fire prevention activities for the following fiscal
31year.

32(4) Information on each of the “Amadorbegin delete contracts”end deletebegin insert agreements”end insert
33 described in subdivision (b), including an annual update on the
34number of thosebegin delete contractsend deletebegin insert agreementsend insert and reimbursements received
35from thebegin delete contractsend deletebegin insert agreementsend insert that are in effect.

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SECTION 1.  

Section 13520 of the Water Code is amended to
37read:

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13520.  

As used in this article “recycling criteria” are the levels
39of constituents of recycled water, and the means for assurance of
40reliability under the design concept that will result in recycled
P4    1water that is safe from the standpoint of public health, for the uses
2to be made of the recycled water.

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