BOARD02131

• Board Meeting Date: 3/22/2005
• Description: OWCDP Section - HB 1365 Guidelines, Water Conservation Planning and Grant Application, Model Conservation Plan
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Memo

(I) Water-efficient fixtures and appliances, including toilets, urinals,
showerheads, and faucets;

(II) Low water use landscapes, drought-resistant vegetation, removal of
phreatophytes, and efficient irrigation;

(III) Water-efficient industrial and commercial water-using processes;

(IV) Water reuse systems;

(V) Distribution system leak identification and repair;

(VI) Dissemination of infonnation regarding water use efficiency measures,
including by puhlic education, customer water use audits, and water-saving
demonstrations;

(VlI) Water rate structures and billing systems designed to encourage water use
efficiency in a fiscally responsible manner (note that the department of local
affairs may provide technical assistance to entities that arc local governments to
implement water billing systems that show customer water usage and that
implement tiered billing systems);

(VIIJ) Regulatory measures designed to encourage water conservation;

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(IX) Incentives to implement water conservation techniques, including rebates to
customers to encourage the installation of water conservation measures;

(b) A section stating the submitting entity's best judgment of the role of Water
Conservation Plans in the submitting entity's water supply planning;

(c) The steps the submitting entity used to develop, and will use to implement, monitor,
review, and revise, its Water Conservation Plan;

(d) The time period, not to exceed seven years, after which the submitting entity will
review and update its adopted plan; and

(e) Either as a percentage or in acre-foot increments, an estimate of the amount of water
that has been saved through a previously implemented conservation plan and an estimate
of the amount of water that will be saved through conservation when the plan is
implemented.

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6e. Plan Public Review - Each submitting entity shall follow the entity's rules, codes, or
ordinances to make the draft plan available for public review and comment. If there are no rules,
codes, or ordinances governing the submitting entity's public planning process, then each entity
shall publish a draft plan, give public notice of the plan, make such plan publicly available, and
solicit comments from the public for a period of not less than sixty days after the date on which
the draft plan is made publicly available. Reference shall be made in the public notice to the
elements of a Water Conservation Plan that have already been implemented. The submittal to the
Office shall include a description of the public review and comment process conducted, including

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