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City of Pleasanton Legislative Platform 2016 000 LEAGUE clnc CITIES March 14,2016 The Honorable Lois Wolk Member,California State Senate State Capitol, Room 5114 Sacramento, CA 95814 RE: Senate Bill 1317-OPPOSE (As Introduced) Dear Senator Wolk: On behalf of the Rural County Representatives of California(RCRC),the California State Association of Counties (CSAC), and the League of California Cities (LCC), we regret to advise you of our opposition to your Senate Bill 1317, as introduced. This measure relates to conditional use permits and groundwater extraction facilities. More specifically, SB 1317 would require a city or county overlying a basin designated as a high or medium priority basin to establish a process for the issuance of conditional use permits for the development of a groundwater extraction facility in order to prevent that facility from contributing to or creating an undesirable result. In 2014, landmark water legislation —Senate Bill 1168 and Assembly Bill 1739 — were chaptered establishing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), thus providing a framework for local agencies to develop plans and implement strategies to sustainably manage groundwater resources within a defined period. By June 30, 2017, a local agency/agencies in each high or medium priority groundwater basin must have officially formed one or more Groundwater Sustainability Agencies (GSA)for the entire basin. By January 31, 2020,each high or medium priority groundwater basin that is subject to critical conditions of overdraft must be managed under a Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) and by January 31, 2022 all remaining high or medium priority groundwater basins must be managed under a GSP with a final review by the Department of Water Resources(DWR)by January 31, 2024. DWR staff has been working ardently to meet the June 1, 2016 deadline to establish emergency regulations for evaluating GSPs. Local agencies, including county 32IPage