AB 935, as amended, Salas. Water projects.
Existing law establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the Department of Water Resources, which manages and undertakes planning with regard to water resources in the state.
This bill would require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the department to provide funding forbegin insert aend insert certainbegin delete projects,end deletebegin insert projectend insert provided that certain conditions are met.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 140 is added to the Water Code, to read:
(a) Upon appropriation by the Legislature, which shall
3not exceedbegin delete seventy-fiveend deletebegin insert sevenend insert million dollarsbegin delete ($75,000,000) total,end delete
4begin insert ($7,000,000),end insert the department shall provide funding forbegin delete the begin insert a project that substantially conforms to the
5following projectsend delete
6
project description for the Reverse Flow Pump-back Facilities on
7the Friant-Kern Canal Restoration Project set forth by the draft
8investment strategy released by the San Joaquin River Restoration
9Program in December 2014end insert if the project satisfies the conditions
10described in subdivisionbegin delete (c):end deletebegin insert (c).end insert
11(1) A project that substantially conforms to the project
12description for the Reverse Flow Pump-back Facilities on the
13Friant-Kern Canal Restoration Project set forth by the draft
14investment strategy released by the San Joaquin River Restoration
15Program in December 2014.
16(2) A project that substantially conforms to the project
17description for the San Joaquin River Recapture at Patterson
18Irrigation District Conveyed through Delta-Mendota Canal to San
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Luis Reservoir Project set forth by the draft investment strategy
20released by the San Joaquin River Restoration Program in
21December 2014.
22(b) Funding pursuant to this section shall not exceed 80 percent
23of the total cost of the project.
24(c) Thebegin delete projectsend deletebegin insert projectend insert identified in this section shall not be
25eligible for funding pursuant to subdivision (a) until all of the
26following requirements are met:
27(1) All feasibility studies are complete and draft environmental
28impact reports are available for public review.
29(2) The director receives commitments for not less than 75
30percent of the nonstatebegin delete cost shareend deletebegin insert cost-shareend insert requirement of the
31project.
32(d) A project funded pursuant to this section shallbegin delete be subject to begin insert comply with any other applicable provisions
33all of the following:end delete
34of state and federal law.end insert
35(1) The project shall comply with the requirements of Title X
36of Public Law 111-11.
37(2) The project shall comply with any other applicable
38provisions of state and federal law.
P3 1(3) To the extent the project is used in furtherance of paragraph
2(4) of subdivision (a)
of Section 10004 of Title X of Public Law
3111-11, that use shall be made proportionally available to all
4entities subject to subdivision (a) of Section 10010 of Public Law
5111-11.
6(4) The project shall not result in any additional regulation of
7the State Water Project’s Bank Pumping Plant or the federal Central
8Valley Project’s Jones Pumping Plant, as compared to operation
9before the implementation of Title X of Public law 111-11.
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