BILL NUMBER: AB 977	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Harkey

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act to amend Section 11910 of the Water Code, relating to
water.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 977, as introduced, Harkey. Water.
   Existing law requires there to be incorporated in the planning and
construction of any physical structure to provide for the
conservation, storage, regulation, transportation, or use of water,
constructed by the state itself or by the state in cooperation with
the United States, features, including, additional storage capacity,
that the Department of Water Resources determines necessary or
desirable for the preservation of fish and wildlife, and necessary or
desirable to permit, on a year-round basis, full utilization of the
project for the enhancement of fish and wildlife and for recreational
purposes to the extent that those features are consistent with other
uses of the project, if any. In making this determination, existing
law requires the department to give full consideration to any
recommendations that may be made by the Department of Fish and Game,
the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Department of Boating and
Waterways, any federal agency, and any local governmental agency
with jurisdiction over the area involved.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes in this
provision.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  Section 11910 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   11910.  There shall be incorporated in the planning and
construction of each project those features  (including,
  , including,  but not limited to, additional
storage  capacity)   capacity,  that the
department, after giving full consideration to  any 
recommendations  which   that  may be made
by the Department of Fish and Game, the Department of Parks and
Recreation, the Department of Boating and Waterways, any federal
agency, and any local governmental agency with jurisdiction over the
area involved, determines necessary or desirable for the preservation
of fish and wildlife, and necessary or desirable to permit, on a
year-round basis, full utilization of the project for the enhancement
of fish and wildlife and for recreational purposes to the extent
that those features are consistent with other uses of the project, if
any. It is the intent of the Legislature that there shall be full
and close coordination of all planning for the preservation and
enhancement of fish and wildlife and for recreation in connection
with state water projects by and between the Department of Water
Resources, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Department of
Boating and Waterways, the Department of Fish and Game, and all
appropriate federal and local agencies.