(a)  Whenever funds are available for purposes of this chapter, the director shall make allocations from the funds available in the amounts that he or she determines to be necessary to state agencies for expenditure for making the investigations, estimates, and reports required by this chapter. Those allocations may also be made to provide for preliminary investigations, estimates, reports, training of state agency personnel, or to reimburse the state agencies for expenditures made in anticipation of actual applications by local agencies. Allocations may also be made for the purpose of making any investigations, estimates, and reports that may be necessary to enable local agencies to obtain federal aid for disaster relief purposes, regardless of whether or not that aid is available for projects that are eligible for state allocations pursuant to this chapter. The director may make allocations to any state agency or office from those funds, or other funds available therefor, in the amounts that are necessary to administer this chapter.

(b) When a proclamation of a state of emergency has been issued by the Governor under the California Emergency Services Act (Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 8550)) and funds are available for purposes of this chapter, the director may make allocations from the funds available in the amounts that the director determines necessary to state agencies for expenditures incurred performing extraordinary emergency measures. An allocation pursuant to this subdivision is at the discretion of the director, but an allocation shall not reimburse either of the following:

(1) Employee costs related to emergency work activities.

(2) Any permanent repairs to the agency’s own facilities.

(Amended by Stats. 2014, Ch. 3, Sec. 2. (SB 104) Effective March 1, 2014.)