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          Date of Hearing:   July 6, 2011

                        ASSEMBLY COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS
                                Felipe Fuentes, Chair

                     SB 133 (Wolk) - As Amended:  April 5, 2011 

          Policy Committee:                              Natural 
          ResourcesVote:9-0

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

           SUMMARY  

          This bill extends the sunset date allowing use of the Cache 
          Creek Resources Management (CCRM) Plan as the functional 
          equivalent of a reclamation plan.  Specifically, this bill:

          1)Extends, from December 31, 2012, to December 31, 2017, the 
            date at which the CCRM Plan, in conjunction with a site 
            specific plan deemed by the appropriate lead agency as 
            consistent with the CCRM Plan, shall be considered a 
            functional equivalent of a reclamation plan for purposes of 
            the Surface Mining and Reclamation Act (SMARA).  

          2)Requires the annual Cache Creek Area Plan report, prepared by 
            Yolo County, to be submitted to the Assembly Natural Resources 
            Committee and the Senate Natural Resources and Water 
            Committee.

          3)Deletes the existing requirement that conditions use of the 
            CCRM Plan as the functional equivalent of a reclamation plan 
            upon notification by the State Mining and Geology Board that 
            it has approved an ordinance adopted by the Yolo County Board 
            of Supervisors. 


           FISCAL EFFECT  

          Negligible state costs.

           COMMENTS  

           1)Rationale  .  This bill's sponsor, Yolo County, contends that 








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            provisions allowing a site specific plan adopted under the 
            CCRM Plan to act as a functional equivalent of a SMARA 
            reclamation plan need to be reinstated to allow the county to 
            continue to move forward with necessary seasonal extraction 
            activities.  

           2)Related Legislation  .  AB 297 (Thompson, Chapter 869, Statutes 
            of 1999) authorized Yolo County to use, until December 31, 
            2003, the CCRM Plan as an alternative to a reclamation plan.  
            AB 1984 (Wolk, Chapter 173, Statutes of 2004) extended this 
            sunset until December 31, 2008.  AB 646 (Wolk, Chapter 604, 
            Statutes of 2007) extended the sunset until December 31, 2012. 
              

           Analysis Prepared by :    Jay Dickenson / APPR. / (916) 319-2081