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• A Practical Guide to Classifying CII Water Users in California

  The CII Customer Classification Guide is intended to help conservation staff re-classify their CII accounts per the Long Term Framework (SB ...

• NAICS & Energy Star Portfolio Manager Crosswalk

  The NAICS & EnergyStar Portfolio Manager (ESPM) Crosswalk can help water suppliers utilize NAICS codes for categorizing their commercial wat...

• 972. Performance Measures: Commercial, Industrial, and Institutional classification system

(a) Each urban retail water supplier shall annually classify each commercial, industrial, and institutional water user, based on the end-use of water for the water user, in accordance with ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager’s broad categories.

(b) In addition to ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager’s broad categories, each supplier shall identify every CII water user associated with:

(1) CII laundries

(2) Landscapes with Dedicated Irrigation Meters

(3) Water recreation

(4) Car wash. For every CII water user associated with a car wash for which the car wash accounts for the majority of that water user’s water use, the supplier shall also identify the water user’s ENERGY STAR Portfolio Manager property type.

(c) Each supplier shall classify its existing CII water users by June 30, 2027. By June 30, 2028 and thereafter, the supplier shall maintain, for each reporting year, at least a 95 percent classification rate of all its CII water users.

(d) For systems that do not meet the criteria to be considered an urban retail water supplier until after the effective date of this section, and for a system that hydraulically consolidates with a supplier, this section applies beginning five (5) years after the system meets the criteria to be considered a supplier or consolidates with a supplier.

• 975. Reporting

(a) Each urban retail water supplier shall submit to the Board, no later than January 1, 2024, and by January 1 every year thereafter, the report required by Water Code section 10609.24. The report shall reflect the conditions of the previous state fiscal year, except as specified in subdivision (b).

(e) No later than January 1, 2025, and by January 1 every year thereafter, each urban retail water supplier shall submit to the Department and the Board, for the previous state fiscal year, on a machine-readable form provided by the Board, the following:

(1) Relevant data pursuant to section 972, specifically:

(A) The total number of commercial, industrial, and institutional (CII) connections served, as reported to the Board pursuant to Health and Safety Code section 116530.

(B) The total number of CII water users classified pursuant to section 972.

(C) The number of CII water users falling into each of the classification categories specified in section 972 (a) and section 972 (b).