SB 718, as amended, Leno. Hazardous Materials Response and Restoration Subaccount.
Existing law establishes the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund, a continuously appropriated fund, for, among other purposes, providing funds tobegin delete rescue, treat, rehabilitate, and dispose wildlife injured by an oil spill.end deletebegin insert cover promptly the costs of response, containment, and cleanup of oil spills into waters of the state, including damage assessment costs and wildlife rehabilitation.end insert Existing law establishes the Hazardous Materials Response and Restoration Subaccount, a continuously appropriated subaccount in the Fish and Wildlife Pollution Account in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund, for, among other purposes, the protection, preservation, and restoration of fish and wildlife impacted by discharges
of hazardous materials into the environment of the state.
This bill would authorize the administrator for oil spill response to loan moneys from the Oil Spill Response Trust Fund to the Hazardous Materials Response and Restoration Subaccount in an amount, not to exceed $500,000 annually, necessary to reimbursebegin insert
organizations providingend insert wildlifebegin insert rescue andend insert rehabilitationbegin delete centersend deletebegin insert servicesend insert for expenses incurred by rescue and rehabilitation stations for wildlife injured bybegin delete nonoil spill-related events,end deletebegin insert spill events of nonoil materials,end insert thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require the administrator to notify the Joint Legislative Budget Committee of the loan.begin insert The bill would require the administrator, through a
public process, to develop and adopt guidelines identifying expenses eligible for reimbursement.end insert
Vote: majority. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 8670.48.4 is added to the Government
2Code, to read:
(a) (1) At the discretion of the administrator,
4moneys may be loaned from the fund to the Hazardous Materials
5Response and Restoration Subaccount, created pursuant to Section
613010 of the Fish and Game Code, in an amount, not to exceed
7five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) annually, that is
8necessary to reimbursebegin insert organizations providingend insert wildlifebegin insert rescue
9andend insert rehabilitationbegin delete centersend deletebegin insert
servicesend insert for expenses incurred by rescue
10and rehabilitation stations for wildlife injured bybegin delete nonoil spill-related begin insert spill events of nonoil materials.end insert
11events.end delete
12(2) The administrator shall notify the Joint Legislative Budget
13Committee of any loans made pursuant to paragraph (1) at the time
14of the loan.
15(3) The administrator shall, through a public process, develop
16and adopt guidelines identifying expenses eligible for
17reimbursement pursuant to paragraph (1).
18(b) A loan made pursuant to paragraph (1) of subdivision (a)
19shall bebegin delete repaid,end deletebegin insert repaid no later than 10 years after the date the
20loan was made,end insert with interest at the rate earned by the Pooled
21Money Investment Account at the time of the loan, upon
22appropriation by the Legislature, from either of the following:
23(1) Moneys recovered from a party responsible for thebegin delete nonoil begin insert spill event of nonoil materials.end insert
24spill-related event.end delete
25(2) If no responsible party is found, the General Fund.
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