BILL NUMBER: AB 565	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	PASSED THE SENATE  SEPTEMBER 7, 2011
	PASSED THE ASSEMBLY  SEPTEMBER 8, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  SEPTEMBER 1, 2011
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 30, 2011
	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, 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 the San Clemente Dam under specified conditions. The
bill would limit total expenditures of state funds for the removal or
alteration of the San Clemente Dam and related activities to not
more than $25,000,000.


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.  (a) In implementing this division, the conservancy may
award a grant to a for-profit entity to accomplish removal or
alteration of 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 the San Clemente Dam.
   (b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), total expenditures of state
funds for the removal or alteration of the San Clemente Dam and
related activities shall not exceed twenty-five million dollars
($25,000,000).