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          Bill No:  AB 565
          Author:   Monning (D)
          Amended:  8/30/11 in Senate
          Vote:     21

           
           SENATE NATURAL RESOURCES AND WATER COMM. :  8-1, 6/28/11
          AYES:  Pavley, Cannella, Evans, Fuller, Kehoe, Padilla, 
            Simitian, Wolk
          NOES:  La Malfa

           SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE  :  6-3, 8/25/11
          AYES:  Kehoe, Alquist, Lieu, Pavley, Price, Steinberg
          NOES:  Walters, Emmerson, Runner

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :  58-19, 5/31/11 - See last page for vote


           SUBJECT  :    Conservation: State Coastal Conservancy

           SOURCE  :     Author


           DIGEST  :    This bill authorizes the State Coastal 
          Conservancy to make a grant to a for-profit company in 
          order to facilitate the removal or alteration of the San 
          Clemente Dam on the Carmel River.

           ANALYSIS  :    Existing law authorizes the State Coastal 
          Conservancy (Conservancy) to undertake or award grants to 
          public agencies and nonprofit organizations for projects 
          related to coastal watershed and coastal and marine habitat 
          water quality, sediment management, and living marine 
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          resources protection and restoration.

          This bill authorizes the Conservancy to award a grant to a 
          for-profit entity to accomplish removal or alteration of 
          the San Clemente Dam if the Conservancy fined that the 
          project is of regional or statewide significance and that a 
          grant to a public agency or nonprofit organization will not 
          achieve removal or alteration of the dam.

          This bill states that the total expenditures of any state 
          general obligation bond funds for the removal or alteration 
          of the San Clemente Dam and related activities shall not 
          exceed eighteen million dollars.

           Background
           
          The California Coastal Conservancy was created (commencing 
          with Public Resources Code Section 31100) to protect, 
          conserve, restore, and enhance environmental and 
          human-based resources of the California coast and ocean for 
          environmentally sustainable and prudent use by current and 
          future generations.  According to Section 31111 the Coastal 
          Conservancy is authorized to provide grants only to public 
          agencies and nonprofit organizations in order to fulfill 
          its mission.

           FISCAL EFFECT  :    Appropriation:  No   Fiscal Com.:  Yes   
          Local:  No

          According to the Senate Appropriations Committee:

                          Fiscal Impact (in thousands)

           Major Provisions                2011-12     2012-13    
           2013-14   Fund  

          Grants for dam removal        $18,000             Bond*
                                                            Federal
          *Various general obligation bond funds.

           SUPPORT  :   (Verified  8/26/11)

          California American Water Company
          California State Coastal Conservancy

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          California Trout
          Carmel River Steelhead Association
          Carmel River Watershed Conservancy
          Monterey County Board of Supervisors
          Monterey Peninsula Water Management District
          Planning and Conservation League
          Trout Unlimited


           ARGUMENTS IN OPPOSITION  :    According to the Monterey 
          Peninsula Water Management District "The San Clemente Dam 
          Removal project represents an extraordinary opportunity for 
          public and private interests to work together to remove an 
          unsafe dam and initiate a watershed restoration process 
          that will bring this river back to life.  The project will 
          permanently remove the public safety risk posed by the dam, 
          restore access to 25 miles of spawning and rearing habitat 
          for steelhead trout, and provide new recreational 
          opportunities for the public through the transfer of 
          approximately 900 acres of watershed lands to public 
          ownership."  
           

           ASSEMBLY FLOOR  :   58-19, 5/31/11
          AYES: Alejo, Allen, Ammiano, Atkins, Beall, Block, 
            Blumenfield, Bonilla, Bradford, Brownley, Buchanan, 
            Butler, Charles Calderon, Campos, Carter, Cedillo, 
            Chesbro, Davis, Dickinson, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fong, 
            Fuentes, Furutani, Galgiani, Gatto, Gordon, Hagman, Hall, 
            Hayashi, Roger Hernández, Hill, Huber, Hueso, Huffman, 
            Lara, Logue, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mansoor, Mendoza, 
            Miller, Mitchell, Monning, Pan, Perea, V. Manuel Pérez, 
            Portantino, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Swanson, Torres, 
            Wieckowski, Williams, Yamada, John A. Pérez
          NOES: Conway, Cook, Donnelly, Beth Gaines, Garrick, Grove, 
            Halderman, Harkey, Jeffries, Jones, Knight, Morrell, 
            Nestande, Nielsen, Norby, Olsen, Silva, Valadao, Wagner
          NO VOTE RECORDED: Achadjian, Bill Berryhill, Gorell


          CTW:do  8/29/11   Senate Floor Analyses 

                         SUPPORT/OPPOSITION:  SEE ABOVE


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