BILL NUMBER: AB 1020	CHAPTERED  09/24/04

	CHAPTER  749
	FILED WITH SECRETARY OF STATE  SEPTEMBER 24, 2004
	APPROVED BY GOVERNOR  SEPTEMBER 24, 2004
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 27, 2004
	PASSED THE SENATE  AUGUST 26, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 23, 2004
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 8, 2003
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 22, 2003
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 8, 2003

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member  Steinberg

                        FEBRUARY 20, 2003

   An act to amend Section 12670.14 of the Water Code, relating to
water.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1020, Steinberg.   Flood control:  local cooperation.
   Existing law authorizes, on a project-by-project basis, and in
accordance with designated plans, state participation in federal
flood control projects and specifies the degree of cooperation to be
assumed by the state and local agencies in connection with those
projects, including a specified project for flood control,
environmental restoration, and recreation along south Sacramento
County streams.  Existing law, except as otherwise provided, requires
the Reclamation Board to give assurances satisfactory to the
Secretary of the Army that local cooperation as required by federal
law will be furnished by the state in connection with described flood
control projects.
   This bill would authorize the Sacramento Area Flood Control
Agency, at the discretion of the Reclamation Board, to provide
assurances of local cooperation for the south Sacramento County
streams project in lieu of those same assurances by the Reclamation
Board.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Section 12670.14 of the Water Code is amended to read:

   12670.14.  The following projects in areas within the City of
Sacramento and the Counties of Sacramento and Sutter are adopted and
authorized at an estimated cost to the state of the sum that may be
appropriated by the Legislature for state participation upon the
recommendation and advice of the department or the Reclamation Board:

   (a) The project for flood control in the Natomas and North
Sacramento areas adopted and authorized by Congress in Section 9159
of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 1993 (P.L.
102-396) substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the
Chief of Engineers in the report entitled "American River Watershed
Investigation" dated July 1, 1992.
   (b) The project for flood control along the American and
Sacramento Rivers adopted and authorized by Congress in Section 101
(a)(1) of the Water Resources Development Act of 1996 substantially
in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in
the report entitled "American River Watershed Project, California"
dated June 27, 1996, as modified by Congress in Section 366 of the
Water Resources Development Act of 1999.
   (c) The project to modify Folsom Dam adopted and authorized by
Congress in Section 101(a)(6) of the Water Resources Development Act
of 1999, as described in the United States Army Corps of Engineers
Supplemental Information Report for the American River Watershed
Project, California, dated March 1996, as modified by the report
entitled "Folsom Dam Modification Report, New Outlets Plan," dated
March 1998, prepared by the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency.
   (d) (1) The project for flood control, environmental restoration,
and recreation along south Sacramento County streams adopted and
authorized by Congress in Section 101(a)(7) of the Water Resources
Development Act of 1999 as described in the report of the Chief of
Engineers entitled "South Sacramento County Streams, California"
dated October 6, 1998.
   (2) Notwithstanding Section 12657, at the discretion of the
Reclamation Board, the Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency may
provide, for the project described in paragraph (1), the assurances
of local cooperation satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army, in
accordance with Section 12657, in lieu of assurances by the
Reclamation Board.