Water.

(1) Under existing law, the State Water Resources Control Board administers a water rights program pursuant to which the board grants permits and licenses to appropriate water. Existing law authorizes an applicant, permittee, or licensee to change the point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use from that specified in the application, permit, or license, upon permission of the board, as specified. Existing law after a hearing authorizes the board to grant or refuse as the facts warrant permission to change the point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use. This bill would authorize the board, after a hearing, to change any other provision or condition. Existing law requires a petition for change of point of diversion, place of use, or purpose of use to meet certain requirements and authorizes the board to request additional information, as prescribed. Existing law requires the board to find that the change will not operate to the injury of any legal user of the water involved and to allow any interested person within a certain time to file a written protest against approval of the petition. This bill would authorize an applicant, permittee, or licensee to initiate the making of, or consent to the making of, a minor change to an application, permit, or license without requiring the filing of a petition for change if the board makes specified findings, including that the change does not have the potential to adversely affect the water supply of other legal users of water or instream beneficial uses. The bill would require the board to provide notice, as prescribed, and to allow at least 15 days for public comment before making a minor change to an application, permit, or license. (2) Existing law, the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, requires all groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins by the Department of Water Resources that are designated as basins subject to critical conditions of overdraft to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2020, and requires all other groundwater basins designated as high- or medium-priority basins to be managed under a groundwater sustainability plan or coordinated groundwater sustainability plans by January 31, 2022, except as specified. The act requires the boundaries of a basin to be as identified in a specified report of the department, unless other basin boundaries are established, as prescribed. Existing law divides the San Luis Rey Valley Groundwater Basin into an upper and lower subbasin, as prescribed, and designates the subbasins as medium priority until the department reassesses basin prioritization. This bill would revise the boundary between the upper and lower subbasins of the San Luis Rey Valley Groundwater Basin.