As used in this chapter:
(a) “Annual” or “year” means a calendar year unless the context indicates a contrary meaning.
(b) “District” means the Coachella Valley Water District.
(c) “Fiscal year” means the period of July 1 through June 30, inclusive.
(d) “Production” or “produce” means the extraction of groundwater by pumping or any other method within the boundaries of the district or the diversion within the district of surface supplies which naturally replenish the groundwater supplies within the district and are used therein.
(e) “Producer” means any individual, partnership, association or group of individuals, lessee, firm, private corporation, or any public agency or public corporation, including, but not limited to, the Coachella Valley Water District.
(f) “Minimal pumper” means any producer who produces 25 or fewer acre-feet in any year.
(g) “Replenishment” and “replenishing” include incentive programs encouraging producers to use reclaimed water supplied by the district, or Colorado River water from the district’s Coachella Branch Canal, for irrigation or other purposes, instead of groundwater.
(h) “Supplemental water” means water from the State Water Resources Development System, or from the Colorado River Aqueduct of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, or from any other source which is not part of the natural replenishment of the groundwater supplies within the district, including reclaimed water.
(Amended by Stats. 1993, Ch. 1024, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1994.)
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