Bill > AB454

This bill adjusts deadlines and provisions within California's Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which aims to ensure the long-term health of the state's groundwater basins. Specifically, it pushes back the deadline for managing groundwater basins that are not experiencing critical overdraft to January 31, 2023, and delays the date by which the state board can designate a basin as "probationary" (meaning it's not being managed adequately) due to issues with surface water depletion to January 31, 2026. The bill also shifts the deadline for establishing a groundwater sustainability agency (GSA) or coordinated GSAs for a high- or medium-priority basin from June 30, 2017, to June 30, 2018, and consequently adjusts the reporting deadline for groundwater extractions in unmanaged areas to July 1, 2018.