The following amounts are hereby transferred from the account to the State Revolving Fund Loan Subaccount and the Small Communities Grant Subaccount and, notwithstanding § 13340 of the Government Code, continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, from the subaccounts to the board:

(a) Eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) to the State Revolving Fund Loan Subaccount for the purposes of providing loans pursuant to the Clean Water Act, to aid in the construction or implementation of eligible projects, and for the purposes described in Section 78612.

Terms Used In California Water Code 78613

  • account: means the Clean Water and Water Recycling Account created by Section 78602. See California Water Code 78601
  • State: means the State of California, unless applied to the different parts of the United States. See California Water Code 18
  • Subdivision: means a subdivision of the section in which that term occurs unless some other section is expressly mentioned. See California Water Code 10

(b) Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) to the Small Communities Grant Subaccount for grants by the board to small communities for construction of eligible treatment works. If, in the judgment of the board, the money in the Small Communities Grant Subaccount will not be expended within a reasonable time, the board may transfer the money to the State Revolving Fund Loan Subaccount to be used for any of the purposes specified in subdivision (a).

(c) The board may transfer unallocated funds from the State Revolving Fund Loan Subaccount to the State Water Pollution Control Revolving Fund for the purposes of meeting federal requirements for state matching funds to provide loans in accordance with the Clean Water Act.

(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved in Proposition 204 at the November 5, 1996, election.)