Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

If an applicant petitions for a significant amendment or modification to a consolidated permit application or any of its component environmental permit applications, the consolidated permit agency shall reconvene a meeting of the participating permit agencies, conducted in accord…

If an applicant fails to provide information required for the processing of the component environmental permit applications for a consolidated permit or for the designation of a consolidated permit agency, the time requirements of this division shall be tolled until such time as …

The secretary shall develop and adopt information technology standards by which public agencies and regulated business entities and the other members of the regulated community may use computers and other information technology to specify, request, report, collect, communicate, p…

The secretary shall establish a standardized electronic format and protocol for the exchange of electronic data for the purpose of meeting environmental data reporting or other usage requirements that are imposed pursuant to all of the following laws and regulations adopted pursu…

The secretary shall identify the environmental data reporting or usage requirements imposed pursuant to the laws listed in Section 71061 and reflect those requirements in the elements of the standardized electronic format and protocol, develop a data dictionary that describes the…

(a) The proposed standardized electronic format and protocol required by Section 71061 and the alternative signature techniques required by Section 71066 shall be tested in the Counties of Santa Clara and San Mateo as a pilot program, for a period determined by the secretary, and…

(a) There is in the agency the Environmental Data Management Advisory Committee. The advisory committee shall consist of not more than seven members appointed by the secretary. The secretary shall select members who represent business, government, and environmental groups, and wh…

To the fullest extent practicable to public agencies and business entities, the secretary, in close consultation with the advisory committee, shall ensure that the standardized electronic format and protocol established pursuant to Section 71061 meets all of the following criteri…

The secretary shall prescribe one or more techniques by which a report may be signed electronically by a person who would otherwise place a written signature on a paper version of the report. The prescribed electronic signature shall be binding on all persons and for all purposes…

Public agencies shall continue their current data auditing practices, and shall work with data submitters to correct all kinds of data error encountered. The pilot program shall require that each participant maintain an audit trail as part of the evaluation criteria so that inspe…

(a) Upon the completion of a demonstration of any standardized electronic format and protocol and alternative signature technique pursuant to this part, to the satisfaction of the advisory committee, the secretary shall adopt that electronic format and protocol standard for use a…

(a) (1) The Department of Fish and Wildlife, in consultation with the commission and the United States Coast Guard, shall collect data necessary to establish and maintain an inventory of the location and geographic range of nonindigenous species populations in the coastal and est…

On or before January 31, 2005, and updated triennially, the commission, in consultation with the board, the Department of Fish and Wildlife, and the United States Coast Guard, shall submit to the Legislature, and make available to the public, a report that includes, but is not li…

On or before April 30, 2026, and updated semiannually, the commission shall publish on its internet website both of the following: (a) A summary of the information provided in the ballast water management report forms submitted to the commission, including vessel arrival data ind…

(a) The commission, the board, and the Department of Fish and Wildlife, in consultation with interested stakeholders, shall identify and conduct any other research determined necessary to carry out the requirements of this division. The research may relate to the transport and re…

The California Endowment for Marine Preservation is hereby established. The endowment is subject to this division and to the Nonprofit Public Benefit Corporation Law (Part 2 (commencing with Section 5110) of Division 2 of Title 1 of the Corporations Code). If there is a conflict …

The endowment is governed by the Board of Directors of the California Endowment for Marine Preservation, consisting of the following members: (a) The Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency. (b) The Secretary for Environmental Protection. (c) One member of the public appointed …

The term of office of each member of the board appointed pursuant to subdivisions (c) to (e), inclusive, of Section 71531 is six years. However, the term of office for the first board member appointed pursuant to subdivision (c) of Section 71531 is three years. (Added by Stats. 2…

Any vacancy on the board shall be filled by the appointing authority for the remainder of the unexpired term. (Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 687, Sec. 2. (AB 2503) Effective January 1, 2011.)

(a) The board shall conduct its initial meeting as soon as possible after incorporation. (b) The board shall meet as often as required, but at least twice per year. (c) Members of the board shall attend at least 50 percent of all duly convened meetings of the board in a calendar …

(a) If the appropriate federal agencies approve an application made pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 72440, or if the board determines that an application is not required, an owner or operator of a large passenger vessel or oceangoing ship shall not release, or permit anyon…

(a) An owner or operator of a large passenger vessel shall not release, or permit anyone to release, from the vessel, graywater into the marine waters of the state or a marine sanctuary. (b) An owner or operator of a large passenger vessel or oceangoing ship shall not release, or…

(a) The owner or operator shall notify the California Emergency Management Agency immediately, but not longer than 30 minutes, after discovery of any of the following: (1) A large passenger vessel release of graywater into the marine waters of the state or a marine sanctuary. (2)…

An oceangoing ship with sufficient holding tank capacity and capability for transfer shall either hold on board or shall transfer sewage and graywater to a pumpout facility, if that facility is available and accessible for the oceangoing ship where the ship is docked, and shall n…

(a) (1) If the master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge of an oceangoing ship has operated, or has caused to be operated, the oceangoing ship in the marine waters of the state during 2006, that master, owner, operator, agent, or person in charge shall provide the infor…

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 thr…

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) Mapping fl…

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) The inspection and evaluation of the integrity and capability of existing flood control project facilities and the development of …

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. (Added November 7, 2006, by initiative Proposition 84.)

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. (Added November 7, 2006, by initiative Proposition 84.)

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 pro…

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…

Any person desiring to purchase any of the lands uncovered by the recession or drainage of the waters of inland lakes, and inuring to the State by virtue of her sovereignty, or the swamp and overflowed lands not segregated by the United States, shall make an application therefor …

Upon the filing of such application, if the land has not been sectionized, the commission shall authorize the county surveyor of the county where the whole or the greater portion of the land lies, to survey the land. He shall make an actual survey thereof, at the expense of the a…

No application to purchase land under this chapter shall be approved until the expiration of 90 days from the filing thereof, and meanwhile the land is subject to the adverse claim of any actual settler who resided thereon when the application was filed. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch…

The lands designated in this chapter shall be sold at the price fixed by the commission. (Amended by Stats. 1968, Ch. 981.)

If any of the lands described in this chapter are suitable for cultivation without reclamation, they shall be sold only to actual settlers in tracts not exceeding 160 acres. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609.)

Any of the lands designated in this chapter which, by reason of periodical overflow, need, and are susceptible of, reclamation, may be reclaimed by the formation of districts, in the same manner and subject to all of the provisions of law regulating the reclamation of swamp and o…

When land has been sold under this chapter, no contest can be maintained against the purchaser on the ground that the land is not of the character stated in the application, unless it is shown that it is not of the character recited in Section 7601. (Added by Stats. 1943, Ch. 609…

All uncanceled certificates of purchase and patents issued prior to May 20, 1907, and payments made prior to May 20, 1907, for any lands as swamp and overflowed lands, which belong to any of the classes described in Section 7601, whether or not such lands were segregated or secti…

All plats of any of the lands described in Section 7601, which were made prior to May 20, 1907, under authority of the United States Surveyor General, and which plats designate the lands as swamp and overflowed land, shall be deemed valid and effectual as surveys of such lands fr…

It is the policy of the State of California that the location and operation of thermal electric powerplants shall enhance public benefits and protect against or minimize adverse effects on the public, the ecology of the land and its wildlife, and the ecology of state waters and t…

For purposes of this chapter, “district” means any regional park district, regional park and open-space district, or regional open-space district formed pursuant to Article 3 (commencing with Section 5500) of Chapter 3 of Division 5, any recreation and park district formed pursua…

(a) The sum of two hundred million dollars ($200,000,000) shall be available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for local park rehabilitation, creation, and improvement grants to local governments on a per capita basis. Grant recipients shall be encouraged …

(a) (1) The department shall allocate 60 percent of the funds available pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 80061 to cities and districts, other than a regional park district, regional park and open-space district, open-space authority, or regional open-space district. Each ci…

(a) The director of the department shall prepare and adopt criteria and procedures for evaluating applications for grants allocated pursuant to subdivision (a) of Section 80061. The application shall be accompanied by certification that the project is consistent with the park and…