AB 2072: State Water Resources Control Board: constituents of emerging concern.

Existing law, the Porter-Cologne Water Quality Control Act, requires the state policy for water quality control to consist of water quality principles and guidelines for long-range resource planning, water quality objectives, and other principles and guidelines deemed essential by the State Water Resources Control Board for water quality control. The act requires the state board to annually determine state needs for water quality research and to recommend projects to be conducted.

This bill would require the state board, to the extent that the state board determines funds are available, to establish and maintain a dedicated program to research contaminants the potential effects of constituents of emerging concern to understand the contaminants entering drinking water supplies. The bill would require the program to research the impacts of contaminants of emerging concern on human health and the environment, in water sources on human and ecosystem health, as prescribed.