Section 116590 Of Article 7. Requirements And Compliance From California Health And Safety Code >> Division 104. >> Part 12. >> Chapter 4. >> Article 7.
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. (a) Funds received by the state board pursuant to this
chapter shall be deposited into the Safe Drinking Water Account,
which is hereby established, and shall be available for use by the
state board, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the purpose
of providing funds necessary to administer this chapter. Funds in the
Safe Drinking Water Account shall not be expended for any purpose
other than as set forth in this chapter.
(b) The state board's hourly cost rate used to determine the
reimbursement for actual costs pursuant to Sections 116565, 116577,
and 116580 shall be based upon the state board's salaries, benefits,
travel expense, operating, equipment, administrative support, and
overhead costs.
(c) A public water system may collect a fee from its customers to
recover the fees paid by the public water system pursuant to this
chapter.
(d) The fees collected pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section
116565 and subdivision (b) of Section 116570 shall be adjusted
annually pursuant to Section 100425, and the adjusted fee amounts
shall be rounded off to the nearest whole dollar.
(e) Fees assessed pursuant to this chapter shall not exceed actual
costs to either the state board or the local primacy agency, as the
case may be, related to the public water systems assessed the fees.
(f) The total amount of funds received pursuant to subdivision (a)
of Section 116565, and subdivision (a) of Section 116577 from public
water systems serving 1,000 or more service connections, for fiscal
year 2015-16 shall not exceed fifteen million nine hundred
thirty-eight thousand dollars ($15,938,000).
(g) The state board shall develop a time accounting standard
designed to do all of the following:
(1) Provide accurate time accounting.
(2) Provide accurate invoicing based upon hourly rates comparable
to private sector professional classifications and comparable rates
charged by other states for comparable services. These rates shall be
applied against the time spent by the actual individuals who perform
the work.
(3) Establish work standards that address work tasks, timing,
completeness, limits on redirection of effort, and limits on the time
spent in the aggregate for each activity.
(4) Establish overhead charge-back limitations, including, but not
limited to, charge-back limitations on charges relating to
reimbursement of services provided to the state board by other
departments and agencies of the state, that reasonably relate to the
performance of the function.
(5) Provide appropriate invoice controls.
(h) This section shall become inoperative on July 1, 2016, and, as
of January 1, 2017, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute,
that becomes operative on or before January 1, 2017, deletes or
extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.