CA SB252

Requires cities and counties overlying critically overdrafted basins to request specific information from applicants for new well permits, including well location, depth, capacity, pumping rate, geologic data, and estimated annual extraction volume.

Mandates that cities and counties make pending well permit application information easily accessible and available to the public and groundwater sustainability agencies through methods such as websites or email systems.

Exempts de minimis extractors, replacement wells that do not increase extraction, applicants in areas with adopted groundwater sustainability plans, municipal wells for city/county residents, and jurisdictions with substantially compliant existing ordinances.

Becomes inoperative on January 30, 2020, and is repealed effective January 1, 2021.

Specifies that the bill does not alter local agencies' authority to deny, condition, or modify well permits under existing ordinances or regional board standards.