SECTIONS 10532-10539 - California Statutes

WATER CODE

SECTION 10532-10539

10532. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions set
forth in this chapter govern the construction of this part.

10533. "Basin plan" means a water quality control plan developed
pursuant to Section 13240.

10534. "Integrated regional water management plan" means a
comprehensive plan for a defined geographic area, the specific
development, content, and adoption of which shall satisfy
requirements developed pursuant to this part. At a minimum, an
integrated regional water management plan describes the major
water-related objectives and conflicts within a region, considers a
broad variety of water management strategies, identifies the
appropriate mix of water demand and supply management alternatives,
water quality protections, and environmental stewardship actions to
provide long-term, reliable, and high-quality water supply and
protect the environment, and identifies disadvantaged communities in
the region and takes the water-related needs of those communities
into consideration.

10535. "Local agency" means any city, county, city and county,
special district, joint powers authority, or other political
subdivision of the state, a public utility as defined in Section 216
of the Public Utilities Code, or a mutual water company as defined in
Section 2725 of the Public Utilities Code.

10536. "Plan" means an integrated regional water management plan.

10537. "Regional projects or programs" means projects or programs
identified in an integrated regional water management plan that
accomplish any of the following:
(a) Reduce water demand through agricultural and urban water use
efficiency.
(b) Increase water supplies for any beneficial use through the use
of any of the following, or other, means:
(1) Groundwater storage and conjunctive water management.
(2) Desalination.
(3) Precipitation enhancement.
(4) Water recycling.
(5) Regional and local surface storage.
(6) Water-use efficiency.
(7) Stormwater management.
(c) Improve operational efficiency and water supply reliability,
including conveyance facilities, system reoperation, and water
transfers.
(d) Improve water quality, including drinking water treatment and
distribution, groundwater and aquifer remediation, matching water
quality to water use, wastewater treatment, water pollution
prevention, and management of urban and agricultural runoff.
(e) Improve resource stewardship, including agricultural lands
stewardship, ecosystem restoration, flood plain management, recharge
area protection, urban land use management, groundwater management,
water-dependent recreation, fishery restoration, including fish
passage improvement, and watershed management.
(f) Improve flood management through structural and nonstructural
means, or by any other means.

10538. "Regional reports or studies" means reports or studies
relating to any of the matters described in subdivisions (a) to (f),
inclusive, of Section 10537, that are identified in an integrated
regional water management plan.

10539. "Regional water management group" means a group in which
three or more local agencies, at least two of which have statutory
authority over water supply or water management, as well as those
other persons who may be necessary for the development and
implementation of a plan that meets the requirements in Sections
10540 and 10541, participate by means of a joint powers agreement,
memorandum of understanding, or other written agreement, as
appropriate, that is approved by the governing bodies of those local
agencies.