This chapter is intended to provide the funding needed to address short term flood control needs such as levee inspection and evaluation, floodplain mapping and improving the effectiveness of emergency response, and providing funding for critical immediate flood control needs throughout the state. It is also intended to provide a framework to support long term strategies that will require the establishment of more effective levee maintenance programs, better floodplain management and more balanced allocation of liability and responsibility between the federal, state and local governments.
Chapter 3Flood Control
Section § 75030
This section is about securing funds to tackle both immediate and long-term flood control challenges in the state. In the short term, it focuses on levee inspections, floodplain mapping, and improving emergency response. For the long term, it aims to establish better levee maintenance, improved floodplain management, and equitable liability sharing among federal, state, and local governments.
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Section § 75031
This section allocates $30 million to a department for projects aimed at mapping floodplain areas and reducing flood risks. The funds can be used for activities such as mapping current and potential future floodplains, especially in rural and urban areas, identifying flood risks, updating old maps, and gathering survey data. These efforts are intended to help local land-use planners avoid or minimize future flooding problems.
The sum of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) shall be available to the department for the purposes of floodplain mapping, assisting local land-use planning, and to avoid or reduce future flood risks and damages. Eligible projects include, but are not limited to:
(a)CA Public Resources Code § 75031(a) Mapping floodplains.
(b)CA Public Resources Code § 75031(b) Mapping rural areas with potential for urbanization.
(c)CA Public Resources Code § 75031(c) Mapping and identification of flood risk in high density urban areas.
(d)CA Public Resources Code § 75031(d) Mapping flood hazard areas.
(e)CA Public Resources Code § 75031(e) Updating outdated floodplain maps.
(f)CA Public Resources Code § 75031(f) Mapping of riverine floodplains, alluvial fans, and coastal flood hazard areas.
(g)CA Public Resources Code § 75031(g) Collecting topographic and hydrographic survey data.
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Section § 75032
This law allocates $275 million to the department for various flood control projects. It covers inspecting and evaluating existing flood control facilities and creating a rehabilitation plan that makes economic sense. The funds can also be used for building, improving, or relocating levees, weirs, or bypasses, including repairing critically eroded banks and levees.
Additionally, projects to boost emergency response capabilities and address environmental mitigation and infrastructure relocation costs are included. Wherever possible, the law encourages a multi-objective approach to managing floodplains that enhances flood protection, restores ecosystems, and protects farmland.
The sum of two hundred seventy five million dollars ($275,000,000) shall be available to the department for the following flood control projects:
(a)CA Public Resources Code § 75032(a) The inspection and evaluation of the integrity and capability of existing flood control project facilities and the development of an economically viable flood control rehabilitation plan.
(b)CA Public Resources Code § 75032(b) Improvement, construction, modification, and relocation of flood control levees, weirs, or bypasses including repair of critical bank and levee erosion.
(c)CA Public Resources Code § 75032(c) Projects to improve the department’s emergency response capability.
(d)CA Public Resources Code § 75032(d) Environmental mitigation and infrastructure relocation costs related to projects under this section.
(e)CA Public Resources Code § 75032(e) To the extent feasible, the department shall implement a multi-objective management approach for floodplains that would include, but not be limited to, increased flood protection, ecosystem restoration, and farmland protection.
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Section § 75032.4
This law section states that the money allocated in Sections 75031 and 75032 is automatically provided to the department and doesn't require further approval each time it's needed.
Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the funds allocated in Sections 75031 and 75032 are continuously appropriated to the department for the purposes of those sections.
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Section § 75032.5
This law allocates $40 million for the department to use on Flood Protection Corridor projects, which must align with specific guidelines outlined in Water Code Section 79037. These projects are aimed at managing and reducing flood risks.
The sum of forty million dollars ($40,000,000) shall be available to the department for Flood Protection Corridor projects that are consistent with Water Code Section 79037.
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Section § 75033
This law allocates $275 million to a department for flood control projects in the Delta area. The funds are aimed at enhancing the department's ability to handle levee breaches and prevent levee failures.
The money will be used for improving emergency response plans, assisting local delta levee maintenance programs, and projects focused on flood protection, which also consider drinking water quality, ecosystem restoration, and water supply reliability. All projects must comply with specific provisions outlined in another section of the Water Code.
The sum of two hundred seventy five million dollars ($275,000,000) shall be available to the department for flood control projects in the Delta designed to increase the department’s ability to respond to levee breaches and to reduce the potential for levee failures. The funds provided by this section shall be available for the following purposes:
(a)CA Public Resources Code § 75033(a) Projects to improve emergency response preparedness.
(b)CA Public Resources Code § 75033(b) Local assistance under the delta levee maintenance subventions program under Part 9 (commencing with Section 12980) of Division 6 of the Water Code.
(c)CA Public Resources Code § 75033(c) Special flood protection projects under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12310) of Part 4.8 of Division 6 of the Water Code, including projects for the acquisition, preservation, protection and restoration of Delta lands for the purpose of flood control and to meet multiple objectives such as drinking water quality ecosystem restoration and water supply reliability.
(d)CA Public Resources Code § 75033(d) All projects shall be subject to the provisions of Water Code Section 79050.
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Section § 75034
This law makes $180 million available to fund part of the costs of flood control and prevention projects in California. These projects must have federal government assurances provided by a local agency and be authorized under specific state water and flood control laws. The funding can also include credits and loans to local agencies, and the projects must comply with certain legislative requirements from AB 1147 established in 2000.
The sum of one hundred eighty million dollars ($180,000,000) shall be available to the department for the purposes of funding the state’s share of the nonfederal costs of flood control and flood prevention projects for which assurances required by the federal government have been provided by a local agency and which have been authorized under the State Water Resources Law of 1945 (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 12570) and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12639) of Part 6 of Division 6 of the Water Code), the Flood Control Law of 1946 (Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12800) of Part 6 of Division 6 of the Water Code), and the California Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Law (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12850) of Part 6 of Division 6 of the Water Code), including the credits and loans to local agencies pursuant to Sections 12585.3 and 12585.4, subdivision (d) of Section 12585.5, and Sections 12866.3 and 12866.4 of the Water Code, and to implement Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 12840) of Part 6 of Division 6 of the Water Code. Projects eligible for funding pursuant to this section shall comply with the requirements of AB 1147 (Statutes of 2000, Chapter 1071).
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