BILL NUMBER: AB 666	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Jeffries

                        FEBRUARY 17, 2011

   An act relating to public lands, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 666, as introduced, Jeffries. Public lands: State Public Works
Board.
   Existing law requires that all land and other real property to be
acquired by or for a state agency, other than specifically listed
agencies, be acquired by the State Public Works Board. Existing law
requires that the jurisdiction over real property acquired by the
board remains in the Department of General Services until the
property is needed for the purpose for which it was acquired.
   This bill would authorize the State Public Works Board to acquire
from the Riverside Land Conservancy certain land in Riverside County
in the Jurupa Mountains that is adjacent to 2 state-owned parcels
that are part of the Stringfellow Acid Pits Contamination Site. The
bill would require the board to transfer that land to the Department
of Toxic Substances Control.
   This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.
   Vote: 2/3. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  The Legislature finds and declares all of the
following:
   (a) The Riverside Land Conservancy, a nonprofit land trust, is
purchasing, on behalf of the Jurupa Area Recreation and Park
District, 162 acres of land in Riverside County (APN 174-020-001) in
the Jurupa Mountains from a private entity. Escrow for the purchase
is scheduled to close during July 2011.
   (b) The Riverside Land Conservancy intends to transfer 30 acres of
this parcel of land to the state to be managed by the Department of
Toxic Substances Control. This portion of land is adjacent to two
state-owned parcels that are part of the Stringfellow Acid Pits
Contamination Site.
   (c) The purpose of this act is to authorize the State Public Works
Board to acquire the 30 acres of land for transfer to the Department
of Toxic Substances Control.
  SEC. 2.  The State Public Works Board may acquire from the
Riverside Land Conservancy the 30 acres of land that is a portion of
APN 174-020-001 in Riverside County in the Jurupa Mountains and is
adjacent to two state-owned parcels that are part of the Stringfellow
Acid Pits Contamination Site. The board shall transfer those 30
acres of land to the Department of Toxic Substances Control.
  SEC. 3.  This act is an urgency statute necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health, or safety within the
meaning of Article IV of the Constitution and shall go into immediate
effect. The facts constituting the necessity are:
   In order for the State Public Works Board to acquire and complete
the transfer of specified lands in Riverside County in the Jurupa
Mountains to the Department of Toxic Substances Control during July
2011, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.