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THIRD READING
Bill No: SJR 20
Author: Leno (D)
Amended: As introduced
Vote: 21
SUBJECT : Safeguard Our Coast Day
SOURCE : Author
DIGEST : This resolution recognizes the 50th anniversary of
the states leadership and innovation in coastal planning and
management and proclaims February 16, 2015, and each third
Monday of February thereafter, as Safeguard Our Coast Day."
ANALYSIS : This resolution makes the following legislative
findings:
1. The increasing and competing demands upon coastal lands and
waters occasioned by population growth and economic
development have resulted in adverse changes to fragile
ecological systems and decreased open space for public
recreation.
2. An innovative strategy for protecting and enhancing the
coast and managing conflicts between development and coastal
resource protection has been in effect on a regional scale
since 1965 in the San Francisco Bay area and for the entire
California coast since 1972.
3. The National Coastal Zone Management Program was authorized
by the federal Coastal Zone Management Act of 1972 (CZMA) to
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balance economic development with the need to preserve,
protect, enhance, and restore the nation's coastal resources.
4. The CZMA promotes coordination between the federal
government and the states by encouraging coastal states to
prepare coastal management programs that guide both state and
federal activities affecting the coast.
5. California's coastal management program is implemented by
various entities within the Natural Resources Agency, the San
Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission, the
California Coastal Commission, the California Ocean Science
Trust, and the State Coastal Conservancy, working together
and in partnership with the Ocean Protection Council, the
State Lands Commission, the Department of Fish and Wildlife,
and other state agencies to carry out CZMA goals.
6. The San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development
Commission, established by the McAteer-Petris Act in 1965,
plans and regulates activities in and around the San
Francisco Bay and the Suisun Marsh.
7. The California Coastal Commission, established by voter
initiative in 1972 and on a permanent basis by the
Legislature in 1976, cooperates with local governments to
manage the conservation and orderly development of coastal
resources through a comprehensive planning and regulatory
program.
8. The State Coastal Conservancy, established by the
Legislature in 1976, complements the work of the two
permitting agencies by employing nonregulatory,
entrepreneurial techniques and collaboration to implement
projects to preserve, protect, and restore public access,
natural resources, urban waterfronts, and agricultural lands
along the Pacific coast and the San Francisco Bay shoreline
and its adjacent counties.
9. These three coastal management agencies, along with other
departments of the Natural Resources Agency, are
demonstrating leadership in the field of adaptation to
climate change and sea level rise, which are increasingly
threatening California's coast and economy.
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This resolution recognizes the 50th anniversary of the state's
leadership and
innovation in coastal planning and management and proclaims
February 16, 2015, and each third Monday of February thereafter,
as "Safeguard Our Coast Day."
FISCAL EFFECT : Fiscal Com.: No
RM:nl 3/27/14 Senate Floor Analyses
SUPPORT/OPPOSITION: NONE RECEIVED
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