Title PRC, California Pub. Res. Code

The definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 849, Sec. 2.)

“Metallic discard” means any large metal article or product, or any part thereof, including, but not limited to, metal furniture, machinery, major appliances, electronic products, and wood-burning stoves. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 849, Sec. 2.)

“Salvage” means the controlled removal of metallic discards from the solid waste stream at a permitted solid waste facility for the express purpose of recycling or reuse. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 849, Sec. 2.)

“Recycling residue” means nonhazardous residue or residue treated to be nonhazardous that is a direct result of metals recovery operations for the express purposes of recycling. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 849, Sec. 2.)

“Solid waste landfill” means a solid waste landfill, as defined in Section 40195.1. (Amended by Stats. 1996, Ch. 1041, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 1997.)

“Vehicle” means any device used for transportation. “Vehicle” includes bicycles, airplanes, and other transportation devices not used on highways, and automobiles and other vehicles, as defined in Section 670 of the Vehicle Code. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 849, Sec. 2.)

“Major appliance” means any domestic or commercial device, including, but not limited to, a washing machine, clothes dryer, hot water heater, dehumidifier, conventional oven, microwave oven, stove, refrigerator, freezer, air-conditioner, trash compactor, and residential furnace. …

“Materials that require special handling” means all of the following: (a) Sodium azide canisters in unspent airbags that are determined to be hazardous by federal and state law or regulation. (b) Encapsulated polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), Di(2-Ethylhexylphthalate) (DEHP), and…

“Solid waste facility” means a solid waste facility as defined in Section 40194. (Added by Stats. 1991, Ch. 849, Sec. 2.)

This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the Presley Urban Fishing Program Act. (Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 128, Sec. 1. Effective March 25, 1982.)

The Legislature hereby finds and declares as follows: (a) There is a great, measurable demand for the provision of increased fishing opportunities in the major metropolitan areas of California. (b) There is a high concentration of urban social and economic problems in California’…

Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this article govern the construction of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1673.)

“Person” means any natural person, corporation, association, partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, receiver, trustee, executor, administrator, guardian, fiduciary, or other representative of any kind and includes the state and any city, county, city and county, d…

“Land” means both surface and mineral rights. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1673.)

“Pool” means an underground reservoir containing, or appearing at the time of determination to contain, a common accumulation of crude petroleum oil or natural gas or both. Each zone of a general structure which is separated from any other zone in the structure is a separate pool…

“Field” means the same general surface area which is underlaid or reasonably appears to be underlaid by one or more pools. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1673.)

“Tracts of land” means land areas under separate ownership which are all of the following: (a) Contiguous either on the surface or in the subsurface. (b) Located within a field which has been producing for more than 20 years. (c) Located within a field over 75 percent of which li…

“Unit agreement” means and includes, in addition to the unit agreement entered into pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 3640) of this chapter, any consent agreement or other agreement entered into in connection with, and supplemental to, such unit agr…

“Unit area” means all lands included within an area subject to a unit agreement entered into pursuant to the provisions of Article 3 (commencing with Section 3640) of this chapter. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1673.)

“Unit production” means all oil, gas, and other hydrocarbon substances produced from a unit area from the effective date of a unit agreement approved by the supervisor pursuant to Section 3643. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1673.)

“Unit operator” means the person or persons designated by the working interest owners as operator or operators of the unit area. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1673.)

“Working interest” means an interest held in lands by virtue of fee title, including lands held in trust, a lease, operating agreement, or otherwise, under which the owner of such interest has the right to drill for, develop, and produce oil and gas. A working interest shall be d…

“Working interest owner” means a person owning a working interest. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1673.)

“Royalty interest” means a right to or interest in oil and gas produced from any lands or in the proceeds of the first sale thereof other than a working interest. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1673.)

“Royalty interest owner” means a person owning a royalty interest. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1673.)

(a) On or before July 1, 1992, each county shall prepare a household hazardous waste element which identifies a program for the safe collection, recycling, treatment, and disposal of hazardous wastes, as defined in Section 25117 of the Health and Safety Code, which are generated …

A county household hazardous waste element may include a program for the safe collection, treatment, and disposal of sharps waste generated by households. The program may include any of the following: (a) The designation of authorized collection locations, including, but not limi…

(a) After January 1, 1994, no solid waste facility shall accept for disposal any major appliance, vehicle, or other metallic discard which contains enough metal to be economically feasible to salvage as determined by the solid waste facility operator. (b) After January 1, 1994, n…

The board shall evaluate the use of recycling residue for use as solid waste landfill cover materials or for use as extenders for currently used cover material. If used as daily cover or as extenders to daily cover, recycling residues shall have all of the physical characteristic…

The board shall conduct its evaluation of recycling residue in consultation with the Department of Toxic Substances Control, the State Air Resources Board, the state water board, and any other agency having pertinent jurisdiction. Recycling residue used as daily cover or as exten…

The program established by this chapter shall be administered jointly by the Department of Parks and Recreation and the Department of Fish and Game and shall be funded by moneys appropriated from the Resources Account in the Energy and Resources Fund to the Department of Parks an…

The Department of Parks and Recreation shall have principal responsibility for the review and approval of proposals for rehabilitating urban lakes in accordance with the eligibility requirements, evaluative criteria, and procedures specified in this chapter and for the administra…

To be eligible for funding pursuant to this chapter, a project shall satisfy all of the following conditions: (a) The lake is situated in an urbanized area of a standard metropolitan statistical area. (b) The lake is close to, and accessible by residents of, an area comprised of …

With respect to any project proposal that has satisfied all the conditions of Section 5677, the departments shall use all of the following criteria to evaluate the relative desirability and establish a ranking of all proposals: (a) An assessment of the needs to be satisfied by an…

Grants may be made to a city, county, or district that provides park, recreation, or open-space facilities and services and will operate and maintain the lake. Grants may be expended only for the rehabilitation and enhancement of lakes, consisting of improvements such as dredging…

Disbursement of a grant for an approved proposal shall be contingent on the recipient’s completion of both of the following conditions: (a) The grant recipient shall enter into an agreement with the Department of Parks and Recreation specifying the terms and conditions under whic…

Consistent with the provisions of this chapter, the Department of Parks and Recreation shall specify the procedures to be followed in applying for grants, establish the terms and conditions under which grants shall be made, and administer the disbursement of all grant funds. (Add…

Grant funds shall be encumbered by the recipient within two years of disbursement. Any grant funds not encumbered within this period shall revert to the Resources Account in the Energy and Resources Fund. (Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 128, Sec. 1. Effective March 25, 1982.)

The grant recipient or any instrumentality of the recipient shall not charge any fee for fishing at any lake the rehabilitation of which is financed, in whole or part, pursuant to this chapter. This prohibition does not extend to any fee charged by the recipient for any facility …

This chapter is not intended, nor shall it be construed, to authorize either the Department of Parks and Recreation or the Department of Fish and Game to establish any additional personnel positions or create any new administrative section in connection with the program establish…

In order to facilitate the earliest possible start of the urban fishing program and to gain familiarity with the types of lakes that are most suitable for rehabilitation for sportfishing purposes, the Department of Parks and Recreation shall make grants, on a demonstration basis …

No grant shall be made under this chapter on or after the date on which the Energy and Resources Fund is abolished, unless a later enacted statute which is chaptered before that date changes the requirements of this section. (Added by Stats. 1982, Ch. 128, Sec. 1. Effective March…

Tracts of land may be unitized as provided in this article to provide for the management, development, and operation thereof as a unit to prevent, or to assist in preventing, waste and to increase the ultimate recovery of oil and gas. (Added by Stats. 1971, Ch. 1673.)

An agreement for the management, development, and operation of two or more tracts of land in the same field or in the same producing or prospective pool as a unit without regard to separate ownerships, and for the allocation of benefits and costs on a basis set forth in such agre…

Any proposed agreement for unit operation of tracts of land which has been consented to by persons who own title to working interests which aggregate at least an undivided three-fourths of the total working interests in the area proposed to be unitized, and by persons who own tit…

The unit agreement shall be approved, if, after a public hearing, the supervisor finds all of the following: (a) The unit area of the proposed agreement for unit operation takes in all tracts which, consistent with good oilfield practice, should be considered a part of and relate…