Water consumption fee.

Existing law requires a person who files a specified application, registration, petition, or request relating to water use to pay certain fees imposed by the State Water Resources Control Board, in accordance with a prescribed fee schedule. Existing law requires certain persons who extract groundwater in excess of a specified amount to file an annual notice of extraction with the state board. This bill, with specified exceptions, beginning on an unspecified date, would impose, on a person diverting or extracting more than an unspecified amount of water, a water resource consumption fee in an unspecified dollar amount per acre-foot of water diverted or extracted. The fees would be deposited in the Water Resources Consumption Fund, which the bill would create, the proceeds of which would be available, subject to appropriation, for unspecified purposes.