Recycled water: agricultural irrigation impoundments: pilot project.

Existing law establishes the State Water Resources Control Board and the California regional water quality control boards as the principal state agencies with authority over matters relating to water quality. This bill would, before October 1, 2014, and until January 1, 2018, permit the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Board to authorize a voluntary pilot project for the purposes of investigating potential water quality impacts associated with maximizing the supplementation of agricultural irrigation impoundments with disinfected tertiary treated recycled water, if the regional board finds that the proposed pilot project satisfies specified criteria. This bill would require the pilot project to include a stakeholder advisory group, composed as prescribed, to review and provide input on pilot project design, implementation, and data analysis. This bill would require a prescribed final report to be issued to the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board and the state board, as specified, and upon review of the final report would authorize the regional board to develop a formula for future waste discharge requirements to be issued for similar purposes and report to the state board and the Legislature with any recommendations, as prescribed.