Bill Text: CA AB1253 | 2009-2010 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: Coastal resources: California Coastal Act of 1976:

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 5-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2010-06-16 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. [AB1253 Detail]

Download: California-2009-AB1253-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 1253	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 17, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JULY 14, 2009
	AMENDED IN SENATE  JUNE 29, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  JUNE 1, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 11, 2009
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 5, 2009

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Fuller and Gilmore
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members DeVore, Harkey, and Silva)

                        FEBRUARY 27, 2009

   An act relating to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1253, as amended, Fuller. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: fish
predation report.
   The California Bay-Delta Authority Act establishes in the Natural
Resources Agency the California Bay-Delta Authority. The act requires
the authority and the implementing agencies to carry out programs,
projects, and activities necessary to implement the Bay-Delta
Program, defined to mean those projects, programs, commitments, and
other actions that address the goals and objectives of the CALFED
Bay-Delta  Program   Programmatic  Record
of Decision, dated August 28, 2000, or as it may be amended.
   The act requires the authority to establish a board of independent
scientists to advise and make recommendations to the authority and
the Bay-Delta Public Advisory Committee, as appropriate, on the
science relative to implementation of all program elements, including
the science program element.
   This bill would require the CALFED science program staff to
conduct an independent scientific review of existing literature and
studies on fish predation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, and to
prepare and submit to the Legislature and the Governor a prescribed
report.
   The bill would also authorize the  Natural  Resources
Agency, or a successor agency, to enter into funding agreements with
public agencies and nongovernmental organizations to pay for the cost
of the independent scientific review.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.


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

  SECTION 1.  (a) The CALFED science program staff shall conduct an
independent scientific review of existing literature and studies on
fish predation in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, for the purpose
of evaluating whether additional studies are needed on the effects of
predation on species listed as threatened or endangered under the
state or federal endangered species acts, and to determine whether
predator species are adversely affecting, at a population level,
native salmonids or other indigenous pelagic species in the Delta,
and, if so, to  determine possible   identify
possible policy chang   es and  management actions that
could reduce the effects of predation. The review  shall
include an evaluation of existing studies on how fish salvage methods
and other mitigation protocols at state and federal pumping
facilities affect predation on native salmonids and indigenous
pelagic species in the Delta at a population level.  
shall also include an evaluation of existing studies on fish salvage
methods and other mitigation protocols at state and federal pumping
facilities and recommendations for changes in methodologies to
improve survival, including the projected costs of those changes.

   (b) After completing the review required by subdivision (a), the
CALFED science program staff shall prepare and submit to the
Legislature and the Governor a report that includes the following:
   (1) A recommendation on whether additional studies are needed.
   (2) If the CALFED science program staff recommends additional
studies, recommendations for the design and scope of those studies
and an estimate of the total costs for the studies.
   (3) A determination of whether predator species are adversely
affecting indigenous pelagic species at a population level.
   (4) Possible  policy changes and  management actions to
mitigate or reduce the effects of predation, if determined to
 be significant on a population level   have an
adverse population level impact  , and the projected costs of
those actions.
   (c) The  Natural  Resources Agency, or its successor
agency, may enter into funding agreements with public agencies and
nongovernmental organizations to pay for the cost of the independent
scientific review specified in subdivision (a).