California Assembly Bill AB2405 Latest Draft

 BILL NUMBER: AB 2405INTRODUCED BILL TEXT INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Buchanan FEBRUARY 19, 2010 An act to amend Section 12990 of the Water Code, relating to water. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2405, as introduced, Buchanan. Delta flood protection. Existing law governing levee maintenance in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta requires the Department of Water Resources to develop and submit to the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, for adoption by the board, criteria for the maintenance and improvement of levees that are not project facilities under the State Water Resources Law of 1945, known as nonproject levees, as prescribed. If the department finds that the annual routine maintenance work specified in the plans approved by the board is not being performed in accordance with the agreement entered into between the local agency and the board, the department is authorized to establish a maintenance area and thereafter annually maintain the nonproject levee in accordance with those plans and subject to specified provisions of law. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that authorization. Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no. THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Section 12990 of the Water Code is amended to read: 12990. Whenever the department finds that the annual routine maintenance work specified in the plans approved by the board is not being performed in accordance with the agreement entered into between the local agency and the board, the department may establish a maintenance area in accordance  with the provisions of  Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 12878) of Part 6 of this division, as nearly as the  same   provisions of that chapter  may be applicable, except that the work to be performed shall be the routine annual maintenance work for the nonproject levee as specified in the plans approved by the board. Upon the formation of a maintenance area, the department shall thereafter annually maintain the nonproject levee in accordance with  such plans   the plans approved by the board  and subject to  the provisions of  Chapter 4.5 (commencing with Section 12878) of Part 6 of this division, as nearly as the  same   provisions of that chapter  may be applicable.