Section 73502.  


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  • (a) The city, on or before February 1, 2003, shall adopt the program of capital improvement projects designed to restore and improve the bay area regional water system that are described in the capital improvement program report prepared by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission dated February 25, 2002. A copy of the program shall be submitted, on or before March 1, 2003, to the State Department of Health Services. The program shall include a schedule for the completion of design and award of contract, and commencement and completion of construction of each described project. The schedule shall require that projects representing 50 percent of the total program cost be completed on or before 2010 and that projects representing 100 percent of the total program cost be completed on or before 2015. The program shall also contain a financing plan. The city shall review and update the program, as necessary, based on changes in the schedule set forth in the plan adopted pursuant to subdivision (d).

    (b) The plan shall require completion of the following projects:

    Project

    Location

    Project
    Identification
    Number

    1. Irvington Tunnel Alternative

    Alameda/Santa
    Clara Counties

    9970

    2. Crystal Springs Pump Station
     & Pipeline

    San Mateo County

    201671

    3. BDPL 1 & 2-Repair of
     Caissons/Pipe Bridge

    Alameda/San
    Mateo Counties

    99

    4. BDPL Pipeline Upgrades at
     Hayward Fault

    Alameda County

    128

    5. Calaveras Fault Crossing
     Upgrade

    Alameda County

    9897

    6. Crystal Springs Bypass
     Pipeline

    San Mateo County

    9891

    7. BDPL Cross Connections 3 &
     4

    Alameda/Santa
    Clara Counties

    202339

    8. Conveyance Capacity West of
     Irvington Tunnel

    Alameda/Santa
    Clara/San Mateo
    Counties

    201441

    9. Calaveras Dam Seismic
     Improvements

    Alameda County

    202135

    (c) The city shall submit a report to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee, the Seismic Safety Commission, and the State Department of Public Health, on or before September 1 of each year, describing the progress made on the implementation of the capital improvement program for the bay area regional water system during the previous fiscal year. The city shall identify in the report any project that is behind schedule, and, for each project so identified, shall describe the city's plan and timeline for either making up the delay or adopting a revised schedule pursuant to subdivision (d).

    (d) (1) The city may determine that completion dates for projects contained in the capital improvement program adopted pursuant to subdivision (a), including those projects described in subdivision (b), should be delayed or that different projects should be constructed.

    (2) The city shall provide written notice, not less than 30 days prior to the date of a meeting of the city agency responsible for management of the bay area regional water system, that a change in the program is to be considered. The notice shall include information about the reason for the proposed change and the availability of materials related to the proposed change. All bay area wholesale customers shall be permitted to testify or otherwise submit comments at the meeting.

    (3) If the city adopts a change in the program that deletes one or more projects from the program, or postpones the scheduled completion dates, the city shall promptly furnish a copy of that change and the reasons for that change to the State Department of Public Health and the Seismic Safety Commission. The State Department of Public Health and the Seismic Safety Commission shall each submit written comments with regard to the significance of that change with respect to public health and safety to the city and the Joint Legislative Audit Committee not later than 90 days after the date on which those entities received notice of that change.

(Amended by Stats. 2008, Ch. 99, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2009. Repealed as of January 1, 2015, pursuant to Section 73514.)