BILL ANALYSIS
SB 1488
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Date of Hearing: June 30, 2010
ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
Felipe Fuentes, Chair
SB 1488 (Committee on Natural Resources and Water) - As
Introduced: March 9, 2010
Policy Committee: Natural
ResourcesVote:7-0
Urgency: No State Mandated Local Program:
No Reimbursable: No
SUMMARY
This bill addresses two distinct issues of concern to the State
Lands Commission (SLC). Specifically, this bill:
1)Specifies that Brown's Island is not included within the lands
granted in trust to the City of Pittsburgh and requires SLC,
by January 1, 2013, to conduct a survey of lands granted in
trust in 2006 to the city.
2)Allows money in the Land Bank Fund to be used to create access
to public trust lands.
FISCAL EFFECT
1)Negligible state costs, if any, to conduct the survey required
by this bill. The bill specifies, consistent with existing
law, that the City of Pittsburgh is to pay the costs of the
survey.
2)Potential cost pressure of an unknown amount to the extent
expenditures from the Land Bank Fund to create public access
to public trust land crowd out expenditures from that fund for
management and improvement of such land.
COMMENTS
1)Rationale . The author intends this bill ensure that the
boundaries of public trust land granted to the City of
Pittsburgh are identified and reported to SLC. The author
also intends to exclude Brown's Island from the grant to the
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city because the island is within the jurisdiction of the Port
of Stockton and East Bay Regional Parks District. Finally,
the author seeks to allow Land Bank Fund monies be used to
create public access to public trust lands, a use the author
describes as in keeping with the intent of the law.
2)Background .
a) SLC Granted Public Trust Lands to Pittsburgh . AB 2324,
Canciamilla (Chapter 275, Statutes of 2006) granted lands
to the City of Pittsburgh to be held in public trust.
These lands were to include tidal and submerged land on the
condition, among others, that the city be responsible for
drawing water boundaries of the granted lands. To date,
the city has not drawn these boundaries.
Among the lands granted to the city was Brown's Island.
This island, however, was and remains within the
jurisdiction of two other public agencies-the Port of
Stockton and East Bay Regional Parks District.
b) Public Access and Public Trust Lands . Land Bank Funds
are donated monies managed by the SLC. Current law limits
use of these funds to the management and improvement of
public trust lands. SLC would like to be able to use Land
Bank Fund monies for projects on nonpublic trust lands that
provide access to public trust lands. For example, SLC
would like to construct wheelchair ramps, paths, roads, and
stairs that begin on nonpublic trust roadways and end on
public trust lands.
Analysis Prepared by : Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081