Cal. Code Regs. tit. 23 § 972

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 43, October 25, 2024
Section 972 - [Operative 1/1/2025] Performance Measures: Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional classification system
(a) Each urban retail water supplier shall annually classify each commercial, industrial, and institutional water user, based on the end-use of water for the water user, in accordance with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager's broad categories.
(b) In addition to ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager's broad categories, each supplier shall identify every CII water user associated with:
(1) CII laundries
(2) Landscapes with Dedicated Irrigation Meters
(3) Water recreation
(4) Car wash. For every CII water user associated with a car wash for which the car wash accounts for the majority of that water user's water use, the supplier shall also identify the water user's ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager property type.
(c) Each supplier shall classify its existing CII water users by June 30, 2027. By June 30, 2028 and thereafter, the supplier shall maintain, for each reporting year, at least a 95 percent classification rate of all its CII water users.
(d) For systems that do not meet the criteria to be considered an urban retail water supplier until after the effective date of this section, and for a system that hydraulically consolidates with a supplier, this section applies beginning five (5) years after the system meets the criteria to be considered a supplier or consolidates with a supplier.

Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 23, § 972

Note: Authority cited: Sections 1058 and 10609.10, Water Code. Reference: Article X, Section 2, California Constitution; and Sections 102, 104, 105, 350, 1122, 1123, 1124, 1846, 1846.5, 10608.12, 10609.2 and 10609.10, Water Code.

1. New section filed 9-30-2024; operative 1/1/2025 (Register 2024, No. 40).