BILL NUMBER: AB 565	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 25, 2011

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Monning
   (Coauthor: Senator Blakeslee)

                        FEBRUARY 16, 2011

   An act to add Section 31111.5 to the Public Resources Code,
relating to conservation.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 565, as amended, Monning. Conservation: State Coastal
Conservancy.
   Existing law establishes the State Coastal Conservancy in the
Natural Resources Agency with prescribed powers and responsibilities
for implementing a program of agricultural land protection, area
restoration, and resource enhancement within the coastal zone, as
defined. Existing law authorizes the conservancy, for the purpose of
implementing the provisions governing the conservancy, to fund and
undertake plans and feasibility studies, and award grants to public
agencies and nonprofit organizations.
   This bill would additionally authorize the conservancy, for the
purpose of implementing the provisions governing the conservancy, to
award a grant to a for-profit entity to accomplish removal or
alteration of  a dam   the San Clemente Dam
 under specified conditions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 31111.5 is added to the Public Resources Code,
to read:
   31111.5.  In implementing this division, the conservancy may award
a grant to a for-profit entity to accomplish removal or alteration
of  a dam   the San Clemente Dam  if the
conservancy finds that the project is of regional or statewide
significance and that a grant to a public agency or nonprofit
organization would not achieve removal or alteration of a dam.