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          Date of Hearing:   July 15, 2009

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Kevin De Leon, Chair

           SB 832 (Committee on Environmental Quality) - As Amended:  July  
                                      13, 2009 

          Policy Committee:                              Natural  
          ResourcesVote:9-0

          Urgency:     Yes                  State Mandated Local Program:  
          No     Reimbursable:              No

           SUMMARY  

          This bill makes technical, non-controversial changes to the  
          various statutes under the jurisdiction of the Senate  
          Environmental Quality Committee, specifically to statutes  
          pertaining to the California Pollution Control Financing  
          Authority (CPCFA), the California Integrated Waste Management  
          Board (CIWMB) and the State Lands Commission.

           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible costs.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale.   This omnibus committee bill updates, clarifies and  
            makes non-controversial changes to various programs to  
            increase effective implementation.  Affected programs include:

              a)   CPCFA  -Updates the governing code, which have not been  
               updated since 1975, to reflect changes in business  
               practices, program updates, and federal tax law.

              b)   CIWMB  -Corrects a drafting error in SB 1016 (Wiggins,  
               Chapter 343, Statutes of 2008) by replacing the term "city  
               and county" with "jurisdiction."

              c)   State Lands Commission  - makes a technical change related  
               to school lands and patents.

           2)Background.  








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             a)   CPCFA  provides low-cost innovative financing to  
               California businesses. As an issuer of tax-exempt private  
               activity bonds, CPCFA facilitates low-cost financing to  
               qualified waste and recycling projects. Other projects to  
               control pollution can qualify for tax-exempt financing as  
               allowed by federal tax law.  CPCFA works with participating  
               financial institutions to assist small business with loans  
               up to $1.5 million. CPCFA also assists with the clean-up of  
               contaminated sites through a $60 million grant and loan  
               program and a site-assessment loan program.  

             b)   CIWMB  oversees, manages, and tracks California's 92  
               million tons of waste generated each year. The board is  
               composed of six board members.  Four members are appointed  
               by the governor, two of whom represent the public, one  
               member with industry expertise, and one with expertise in  
               the environmental field. One member is appointed by the  
               Senate Committee on Rules and one is appointed by the  
               Speaker of the Assembly.  

             c)   The State Lands Commission manages lands that the state  
               has received from the federal government. These lands total  
               more than four million acres and include tide and submerged  
               lands, swamp and overflow lands, the beds of navigable  
               waterways, and state school lands.  
           
           Analysis Prepared by  :    Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081