California Public Resources Code

§ 5096.650

PRC § 5096.650 Effective Sep 26, 2013Div. 5 · Ch. 1.696 · Art. 5

Statute text

The one billion two hundred seventy-five million dollars ($1,275,000,000) allocated pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 5096.610 shall be available for the acquisition and development of land, air, and water resources in accordance with the following schedule:

(a)Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the sum of three hundred million dollars ($300,000,000) is continuously appropriated to the Wildlife Conservation Board for the acquisition, development, rehabilitation, restoration, and protection of habitat that promotes the recovery of threatened and endangered species, that provides corridors linking separate habitat areas to prevent habitat fragmentation, and that protects significant natural landscapes and ecosystems such as old growth redwoods and oak woodlands and other significant habitat areas; and for grants and related state administrative costs pursuant to the Wildlife Conservation Law of 1947 (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 1300) of Division 2 of the Fish and Game Code). Funds scheduled in this subdivision may be used to prepare management plans for properties acquired in fee by the Wildlife Conservation Board.

(b)The sum of four hundred forty-five million dollars ($445,000,000) to the conservancies in accordance with the particular provisions of the statute creating each conservancy for the acquisition, development, rehabilitation, restoration, and protection of land and water resources; for grants and state administrative costs; and in accordance with the following schedule: (1) To the State Coastal Conservancy $200,000,000 (2) To the California Tahoe Conservancy $ 40,000,000 (3) To the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy $ 40,000,000 (4) To the Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy $ 20,000,000 (5) To the San Joaquin River Conservancy $ 25,000,000 (6) To the San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy $ 40,000,000 (7) To the Baldwin Hills Conservancy $ 40,000,000 (8) To the San Francisco Bay Area Conservancy Program $ 40,000,000

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Legislative history

Amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 356, Sec. 15. (SB 96) Effective September 26, 2013. Note: This section was added by Stats. 2001, Ch. 875, and approved in Prop. 40 on March 5, 2002.