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                                                                SB 832
                                                                       

                      SENATE COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY
                        Senator S. Joseph Simitian, Chairman
                              2009-2010 Regular Session
                                           
           BILL NO:    SB 832
           AUTHOR:     Senate Environmental Quality Committee
           AMENDED:    As Introduced
           FISCAL:     Yes               HEARING DATE:     May 4, 2009
           URGENCY:    Yes               CONSULTANT:       Caroll  
           Mortensen
            
           SUBJECT  :    OMNIBUS COMMITTEE MEASURE

            SUMMARY  :
           
            Existing law  :

           1) Establishes the California Pollution Control Financing  
              Authority with specified powers and duties, and authorizes  
              the authority to approve financing for projects or  
              pollution control facilities to prevent or reduce  
              environmental pollution (Health and Safety Code 44150 et  
              seq.).

           2) Establishes the Integrated Waste Management Board with  
              specified powers and duties over solid waste management  
              (Public Resources Code 40000 et seq.). 

           3) Establishes the State Lands Commission with specified  
              powers and duties over the management of state lands  
              including the power to apply to the United States  
              Department of the Interior for patents to the numbered  
              school sections in place, which have not been patented by  
              the state (Public Resources Code 6101 et seq.).

            This bill  makes various technical, non-substantive changes to  
           the various codes under the jurisdiction of the Committee.

            













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           COMMENTS  :
            
           Purpose of Bill  .  This is the Committee's omnibus measure.  It  
           contains provisions to update, clarify and make  
           non-controversial changes to various programs to increase  
           effective program implementation, including:  a) California  
           Pollution Control Financing Authority.  The codes governing  
           the Authority have not been updated since 1975.  The bill will  
           be the vehicle for those updates; and, b) the State Lands  
           Commission.  This bill proposes a technical amendment related  
           to school lands and patents.  
               
            SOURCE  :        Senate Environmental Quality Committee  

           SUPPORT  :       None on file  

           OPPOSITION  :    None on file