The sum of seven hundred sixty-seven million dollars ($767,000,000) shall be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, as described in this chapter.

(a) Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) shall be available to the Salton Sea Authority for capital outlay projects that provide air quality and habitat benefits and that implement the Natural Resources Agency’s Salton Sea Management Program. Of this amount, not less than ten million dollars ($10,000,000) shall be available to the Salton Sea Authority for purposes consistent with the New River Water Quality, Public Health, and River Parkway Development Program, as described in Section 71103.6.

Terms Used In California Public Resources Code 80110

  • Appropriation: The provision of funds, through an annual appropriations act or a permanent law, for federal agencies to make payments out of the Treasury for specified purposes. The formal federal spending process consists of two sequential steps: authorization
  • Restoration: means the improvement of physical structures or facilities and, in the case of natural systems and landscape features, includes, but is not limited to, projects for the control of erosion, stormwater capture and storage or to otherwise reduce stormwater pollution, the control and elimination of invasive species, the planting of native species, the removal of waste and debris, prescribed burning, fuel hazard reduction, fencing out threats to existing or restored natural resources, road elimination, improving instream, riparian, or managed wetland habitat conditions, and other plant and wildlife habitat improvement to increase the natural system value of the property or coastal or ocean resource. See California Public Resources Code 80002

(b) One hundred eighty million dollars ($180,000,000) shall be available to the following conservancies according to their governing statutes for their specified purposes in accordance with the following schedule:

(1) Baldwin Hills Conservancy, six million dollars ($6,000,000).

(2) California Tahoe Conservancy, twenty-seven million dollars ($27,000,000).

(3) Coachella Valley Mountains Conservancy, seven million dollars ($7,000,000).

(4) Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy, twelve million dollars ($12,000,000).

(5) San Diego River Conservancy, twelve million dollars ($12,000,000).

(6) San Gabriel and Lower Los Angeles Rivers and Mountains Conservancy, thirty million dollars ($30,000,000).

(7) San Joaquin River Conservancy, six million dollars ($6,000,000).

(8) Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy, thirty million dollars ($30,000,000).

(9) Sierra Nevada Conservancy, thirty million dollars ($30,000,000).

(10) State Coastal Conservancy, twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for grants pursuant to § 66704.5 of the Government Code for the purpose of San Francisco Bay restoration in accordance with the San Francisco Bay Restoration Authority Act (Title 7.25 (commencing with Section 66700) of the Government Code). Notwithstanding subdivision (e) of § 66704.5 of the Government Code, the State Coastal Conservancy shall establish a matching grant requirement for a grant awarded pursuant to this paragraph.

(c) One hundred thirty-seven million dollars ($137,000,000) shall be available to the Wildlife Conservation Board.

(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 852, Sec. 3. Approved in Proposition 68 at the June 5, 2018, election.)

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