SB 208, as introduced, Lara. Integrated regional water management plans: grants: advanced payment.
Existing law, the Integrated Regional Water Management Planning Act, authorizes a regional water management group to prepare and adopt an integrated regional water management plan with specified components relating to water supply and water quality. Existing law provides that an integrated regional water management plan is eligible for funding allocated specifically for implementation of integrated regional water management.
Existing law, the Water Quality, Supply, and Infrastructure Improvement Act of 2014, approved by the voters as Proposition 1 at the November 4, 2014, statewide general election, authorizes the issuance of general obligation bonds in the amount of $7,545,000,000 to finance a water quality, supply, and infrastructure improvement program. The act provides that the sum of $810,000,000 is to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for expenditures on, and competitive grants and loans to, projects that are included in and implemented in an adopted integrated regional water management plan and respond to climate change and contribute to regional water security.
This bill would require a regional water management group, within 90 days of notice that a grant has been awarded, to provide the state entity administering the grant with a list of projects to be funded by the grant funds where the project proponent is a nonprofit organization, as defined, or a disadvantaged community, as defined, or the project benefits a disadvantaged community. This bill would require the state entity administering the grant, within 60 days of receiving the project information, to provide advanced payment of 50% of the grant award for those projects that satisfy specified criteria and would require the advanced funds to be handled, as prescribed. This bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2025.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 10551) is
2added to Part 2.2 of Division 6 of the Water Code, to read:
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(a) Within 90 days of notice that a grant for projects
7included and implemented in an integrated regional water
8management plan has been awarded, the regional water
9management group shall provide the state entity administering the
10grant with a list of projects to be funded by the grant funds where
11the project proponent is a nonprofit organization or a disadvantaged
12community, or the project benefits a disadvantaged community.
13The list shall specify how the projects are consistent with the
14adopted integrated regional water management plan and shall
15include all of the following information:
16(1) Descriptive information concerning each project identified.
17(2) The names of the entities
that will receive the funding for
18each project, including, but not limited to, an identification as to
19whether the project proponent or proponents are nonprofit
20organizations or a disadvantaged community.
21(3) The budget of each project.
22(4) The anticipated schedule for each project.
23(b) Within 60 days of receiving the project information pursuant
24to subdivision (a), the state entity administering the grant shall
25provide advanced payment of 50 percent of the grant award for
26those projects that satisfy both of the following criteria:
P3 1(1) The project proponent is a nonprofit organization or a
2disadvantaged community, or the project benefits a disadvantaged
3community.
4(2) The grant award for
the project is less than one million
5dollars ($1,000,000).
6(c) Funds advanced pursuant to subdivision (b) shall be handled
7as follows:
8(1) The recipient shall place the funds in a noninterest-bearing
9account until expended.
10(2) The funds shall be spent within six months of the date of
11receipt, unless the state entity administering the grant waives this
12requirement.
13(3) The recipient shall periodically, but not more frequently
14than quarterly, provide an accountability report to the state entity
15administering the grant regarding the expenditure and use of any
16advanced grant funds in a format as determined by that state entity.
17(4) If funds are not expended, the unused portion of the grant
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shall be returned to the state entity administering the grant within
1960 days after project completion or the end of the grant
20performance period, whichever is earlier.
21(d) As used in this section:
22(1) “Disadvantaged community” has the same meaning as
23defined in subdivision (j) of Section 79702.
24(2) “Nonprofit organization” has the same meaning as defined
25in subdivision (p) of Section 79702.
This chapter shall remain in effect only until January
271, 2025, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted
28statute, that is enacted before January 1, 2025, deletes or extends
29that date.
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