AB 430: State Water Resources Control Board: emergency regulations.

Existing law provides that an emergency regulation adopted by the State Water Resources Control Board following a Governors proclamation of a state of emergency based on drought conditions, for which the board makes specified findings, may remain in effect for up to one year, as provided, and may be renewed if the board determines that specified conditions relating to precipitation are still in effect.

This bill would require the board, within 180 days of the 2nd renewal, and any subsequent and consecutive renewal, of any nonfee emergency regulation or upon its repeal, following a finding by the board that a nonfee emergency regulation is no longer necessary, as provided, to conduct a comprehensive economic study assessing the impacts of the regulation, as specified. The bill would require the board to make the study publicly available on its internet website no later than 30 days after completion.