Section 596.3 - Quantification and Verification of Total Industrial Process and Industrial Incidental WaterThe volumes of water uses in Section 596.2 shall be for the same period as urban water suppliers calculate their baseline daily per capita water use and reported in their Urban Water Management Plans.
(a) The volume of process water use shall be verified and separated from incidental water use. (1) To establish a baseline for determining process water use, urban retail water suppliers shall calculate the process water use over a continuous ten year period ending no earlier than December 31, 2004, and no later than December 31, 2010.(2) Verification of process water volumes can be accomplished by metering, sub-metering or other means determined suitable and verifiable by the urban retail water supplier and reported in their Urban Water Management Plans and reviewed by the Department of Water Resources.(b) In cases where the urban retail water supplier provides only a portion of an industrial water user's water supply, the urban retail water supplier shall prorate the volume of process water use excluded from gross water use by considering the average share of the industrial water use that it supplied over a continuous ten year period ending no earlier than December 31, 2004, and no later than December 31, 2010. The verification of the proportion of industrial water use supplied shall be accomplished through metering, sub-metering, or other means determined suitable and verifiable by the urban water supplier such as audits, historic manufacturing output or suppliers' billing records and as reported in their Urban Water Management Plans.
EXAMPLE. If an urban water supplier delivered only 60 percent of the average annual water used by an industrial water user, the urban supplier can only use that 60 percent of industrial water in determining if it is eligible to exclude process water from its gross water use; and if it is eligible, it can exclude only 60 percent of the volume of process water used by such industrial water user.
Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 23, § 596.3
1. New section filed 12-17-2010 as an emergency; operative 12-17-2010 (Register 2010, No. 51). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 6-15-2011 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. Certificate of Compliance as to 12-17-2010 order, including amendment of first paragraph and subsection (a)(2), transmitted to OAL 6-3-2011 and filed 7-8-2011 (Register 2011, No. 27). Note: Authority cited: Section 10608.20, Water Code. Reference: Sections 10608.20 and 10608.24, Water Code.
1. New section filed 12-17-2010 as an emergency; operative 12-17-2010 (Register 2010, No. 51). A Certificate of Compliance must be transmitted to OAL by 6-15-2011 or emergency language will be repealed by operation of law on the following day.
2. Certificate of Compliance as to 12-17-2010 order, including amendment of first paragraph and subsection (a)(2), transmitted to OAL 6-3-2011 and filed 7-8-2011 (Register 2011, No. 27).