BILL NUMBER: AB 2405	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Buchanan

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to amend Section 12990 of the Water Code, relating to
water.



	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2405, as introduced, Buchanan. Delta flood protection.
   Existing law governing levee maintenance in the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta requires the Department of Water Resources to develop
and submit to the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, for adoption
by the board, criteria for the maintenance and improvement of levees
that are not project facilities under the State Water Resources Law
of 1945, known as nonproject levees, as prescribed. If the department
finds that the annual routine maintenance work specified in the
plans approved by the board is not being performed in accordance with
the agreement entered into between the local agency and the board,
the department is authorized to establish a maintenance area and
thereafter annually maintain the nonproject levee in accordance with
those plans and subject to specified provisions of law.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that
authorization.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 12990 of the Water Code is amended to read:
   12990.  Whenever the department finds that the annual routine
maintenance work specified in the plans approved by the board is not
being performed in accordance with the agreement entered into between
the local agency and the board, the department may establish a
maintenance area in accordance  with the provisions of
 Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 12878) of Part 6 of
this division, as nearly as the  same  
provisions of that chapter  may be applicable, except that the
work to be performed shall be the routine annual maintenance work for
the nonproject levee as specified in the plans approved by the
board. Upon the formation of a maintenance area, the department shall
thereafter annually maintain the nonproject levee in accordance with
 such plans   the plans approved by the board
 and subject to  the provisions of  Chapter 4.5
(commencing with Section 12878) of Part 6 of this division, as
nearly as the  same   provisions of that chapter
 may be applicable.