Cal. Wat. Code § 10720.7

Current through the 2024 Legislative Session.
Section 10720.7 - Management under groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans
(a)
(1) By January 31, 2020, all basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the department that have been designated in Bulletin 118, as it may be updated or revised on or before January 1, 2017, as basins that are subject to critical conditions of overdraft shall be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans pursuant to this part.
(2) By January 31, 2022, all basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the department that are not subject to paragraph (1) shall be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans pursuant to this part.
(b) The Legislature encourages and authorizes basins designated as low- and very low priority basins by the department to be managed under groundwater sustainability plans pursuant to this part. Chapter 11 (commencing with Section 10735) does not apply to a basin designated as a low- or very low priority basin.

Ca. Water Code § 10720.7

Amended by Stats 2015 ch 255 (SB 13),s 3, eff. 1/1/2016.
Added by Stats 2014 ch 346 (SB 1168),s 3, eff. 1/1/2015.