SB 1938, created in 2002, requires that agencies that elect to, “Prepare and implement a groundwater management plan that includes basin management objectives for the groundwater basin that is subject to the plan. The plan shall include components relating to the monitoring and management of groundwater levels within the groundwater basin, groundwater quality degradation, inelastic land surface subsidence, and changes in surface flow and surface water quality that directly affect groundwater levels or quality or are caused by groundwater pumping in the basin.” In addition, local agencies that do not adopt or participate in a plan fulfilling the requirements of SB 1938 shall not be eligible for State funding intended for groundwater projects. The Authority has developed the following qualitative Basin Management Objectives (MO) for the GMA.