Bill Text: CA AB896 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Flood control: City of Woodland: Lower Cache Creek.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2024-02-01 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB896 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB896-Amended.html
Amended
IN
Assembly
March 09, 2023 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Aguiar-Curry |
February 14, 2023 |
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to update every 5 years the plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is known as The California Water Plan.
This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee:Bill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
The Legislature hereby finds and declares all of the following:SEC. 2.
Section 12663.1 is added to the Water Code, to read:12663.1.
The Lower Cache Creek Project along Cache Creek adopted and authorized by the United States Congress in the Water Resources Development Act of 2022 (Public Law 117-263), is hereby adopted and approved substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers in the Report entitled “Lower Cache Creek, Yolo County, Woodland and Vicinity, California Final Chiefs Report” and dated June, 21, 2021, at an estimated cost to the state of the sum of one hundred fourteen million six hundred ninety-two thousand five hundred dollars ($114,692,500) that may be appropriated by the Legislature for state participation, upon the recommendation and advice of the department or the board.SEC. 3.
Section 12663.2 is added to the Water Code, to read:12663.2.
(a) Notwithstanding Section 12585.7, the state may provide funds, up to 99 percent of the costs, for the project for flood control on the Lower Cache Creek in the County of Yolo, that is substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers in the “Lower Cache Creek, Yolo County, Woodland and Vicinity, California Final Chiefs Report” dated June 21, 2021, as follows:SEC. 4.
The Legislature finds and declares that a special statute is necessary and that a general statute cannot be made applicable within the meaning of Section 16 of Article IV of the California Constitution because of the unique need to improve flood control on the Lower Cache Creek located in the County of Yolo as described in Section 1 of this act.(a)The plan for the orderly and coordinated control, protection, conservation, development, and use of the water resources of the state, which is set forth and described in Bulletin No. 1 of the State Water Resources Board
titled, “Water Resources of California,” Bulletin No. 2 of the State Water Resources Board
titled, “Water Utilization and Requirements of California,” and Bulletin No. 3 of the department titled, “The California Water Plan,” with the necessary amendments, supplements, and additions to the plan, shall be known as “The California Water Plan.”
(b)(1)The department shall update The California Water Plan on or before December 31, 2003, and every five years thereafter. The department shall report the amendments, supplements, and additions included in the updates of The California Water
Plan, together with a summary of the department’s conclusions and recommendations, to the Legislature in the session in which the updated plan is issued.
(2)The department shall establish an advisory committee, comprised of representatives of agricultural and urban water suppliers, local government, business, production agriculture, and environmental interests, and other interested parties, to assist the department in updating The California Water Plan. The department shall consult with the advisory committee in carrying out this section. The department shall provide written notice of meetings of the advisory committee to any interested person or entity that
requests
the notice. The meetings shall be open to the public.
(3)The department shall release a preliminary draft of The California Water Plan, as updated, upon request, to interested persons and entities throughout the state for their review and comments. The department shall provide these persons and entities an opportunity to present written or oral comments on the preliminary draft. The department shall consider these comments in the preparation of the final publication of The California Water Plan, as updated.