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                                   THIRD READING 


          Bill No:  SB 144
          Author:   Pan (D), et al.
          Amended:  4/6/15  
          Vote:     21  

           SENATE NATURAL RES. & WATER COMMITTEE:  9-0, 3/24/15
           AYES:  Pavley, Stone, Allen, Fuller, Hertzberg, Hueso, Jackson,  
            Monning, Wolk

           SENATE APPROPRIATIONS COMMITTEE:  7-0, 5/28/15
           AYES:  Lara, Bates, Beall, Hill, Leyva, Mendoza, Nielsen

           SUBJECT:   Water development projects: Sacramento-San Joaquin  
                     watersheds.


          SOURCE:    Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency


          DIGEST:  This bill updates the current authorization of state  
          funding for the American River Watershed, Common Features  
          Project, Natomas Basin to reflect the project as described in  
          the 2010 Final Feasibility Study.


          ANALYSIS:   


          Existing law:


          1)Provides, under the State Water Resources Law of 1945, the  
            state may participate in funding local flood control projects  








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            that are authorized by the legislature and that meet other  
            specific requirements.  One requirement is that the project  
            must be authorized by Congress.


          2)Specifies, among the local flood control projects that have  
            been authorized by the Legislature is "The project for flood  
            control along the American and Sacramento Rivers ? within the  
            Natomas Basin as described in the final engineer's report  
            dated April 19, 2007, adopted by the Sacramento Area Flood  
            Control Agency."


            This project has been further refined in the "2010 final  
            feasibility study for the American River Watershed, Common  
            Features Project, Natomas Basin, adopted by Congress in  
            Section 7002 of the Water Resources Reform and Development Act  
            of 2014."


          This bill updates the current authorization for this project to  
          reflect the current definition of the project.  The bill would  
          also make numerous technical, non substantive changes to the  
          authorizing statutes


          FISCAL EFFECT:   Appropriation:    No          Fiscal  
          Com.:YesLocal:   No


          According to the Senate Appropriations Committee, this bill  
          would incur approximately $40 to $60 million in General Fund for  
          additional state obligations in flood control project costs.


          SUPPORT:   (Verified5/29/15)

          Sacramento Area Flood Control Agency (source)
          Association of California Water Agencies


          OPPOSITION:   (Verified5/29/15)









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          None received


          ARGUMENTS IN SUPPORT:     According to the Sponsor, SB 144  
          "would ensure that the historic Federal-State-local cost-sharing  
          partnership is continued and construction moves forward as  
          quickly as possible.  The constructed Projects will increase the  
          ability of the existing flood control system to protect heavily  
          urbanized areas within the City of Sacramento and the Counties  
          of Sacramento, Yolo and Sutter.  And, as evidenced by the  
          Environmental impact Reports that certified these projects, they  
          will do so without altering or otherwise impairing the designed  
          flows and surface elevations."



          Prepared by:Dennis O'Connor / N.R. & W. / (916) 651-4116
          5/30/15 18:58:40


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