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SB-4 Department of Water Resources: flood control.(1997-1998)



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SB4:v94#DOCUMENT

Senate Bill No. 4
CHAPTER 1

An act relating to water, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately.

[ Filed with Secretary of State  August 15, 1997. Approved by Governor  August 15, 1997. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 4, Costa. Department of Water Resources: flood control.
(1)  Under existing law, the Department of Water Resources participates in various flood control and prevention projects.
This bill would appropriate $3,525,000 from the General Fund to the department for prescribed projects specified in a report prepared by the Flood Emergency Action Team dated May 10, 1997.
(2)  This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Appropriation: YES  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Three million five hundred twenty-five thousand dollars ($3,525,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the Department of Water Resources, for expenditure in the 1997–98 fiscal year, for support of projects specified in a report prepared by the Flood Emergency Action Team, dated May 10, 1997, as follows:
(a)  Three hundred sixty thousand dollars ($360,000) for flood center event tracking and computer mapping.
(b)  Nine hundred fifty thousand dollars ($950,000) to ensure the integrity of the Sacramento River Flood Control System.
(c)  (1)  One million four hundred thousand dollars ($1,400,000) to do all of the following:
(A)  Conduct computer modeling studies and prepare floodplain mapping of rural areas with potential for urbanization, newly identified floodplains, and flood hazard areas with undefined 100-year flood elevations.
(B)  Develop geographical information systems capability to facilitate floodplain mapping and acquire computer equipment and software for that purpose.
(C)  Administer contracts with engineering firms to supplement computer-modeled floodplain studies.
(2)  The funds designated for expenditure pursuant to paragraph (1) shall not be used for any other floodplain management purpose.
(d)  Three hundred forty thousand dollars ($340,000) for the improvement of inspection services relating to levees, structures, designated floodways, and levee encroachment construction.
(e)  Four hundred seventy-five thousand dollars ($475,000) to inspect dams that made large spillway releases during the 1997 floods for damage that may impair the ability of the dams to safely pass future floodflows.

SEC. 2.

 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 to implement, as soon as possible, prescribed actions recommended by the Flood Emergency Action Team, thereby protecting the public health and safety, it is necessary that this act take effect immediately.