AB 93 (Lempert) Highways: Tunnels
AB 93 would require the California Department of Transportation to immediately initiate design and all other project development work for the construction of a tunnel in San Mateo County on State Highway Route 1 behind Devil's Slide through San Pedro Mountain.
AB 241 would require the State Coastal Conservancy, in cooperation with responsible federal, state, and local agencies, to adopt regulations that establish standards and criteria for a wetlands mitigation bank site qualification process in the coastal zone, the evaluation of wetlands acreage and habitat functions created at bank sites, and the operation of bank sites. The bill would, until January 1, 2010, permit any person who desires to establish a bank site, as described, to apply to the conservancy and any other appropriate state agency for a determination that the proposed bank site and the proposed operator qualify under the standards and criteria established by the conservancy. The bill would prescribe procedures and requirements for the approval of a bank site. The conservancy would be required on or before February 1, 1999, and annually thereafter, to report to the Legislature a description and evaluation of each bank site approved by the conservancy, including specified information and recommendations.
AB 374 (Kuehl) Marine Life Refuges
AB 374 would designate specified ocean waters south of the City of Malibu as the Malibu Marine Life Refuge and specified ocean waters south of Point Dume as the Point Dume Marine Life Refuge.
AB 402 (Keeley) Marine Ecosystems
AB 402 would enact the Marine Ecosystem Conservation Act of 1997, and would make certain declarations concerning the policy of the state concerning marine ecosystems and habitats.
AB 667 (Lempert) Oil Spills: State Waters
AB 667 would expand the Lempert-Keene-Seastrand Oil Spill Prevention and Response Act to make the discharge or spill of oil into all state waters subject to criminal and civil penalties.
AB 799 (Bowler) Oil Spill Contingency Plans: Grants
AB 799 would authorize any local government with jurisdiction over, or directly adjacent to, marine waters to apply for a grant to complete, update, or revise an oil spill contingency plan element.
AB 1000 (Keeley) Clean Coastal Waters and Rivers: Bond Act
AB 1000 would enact the Clean Coastal Waters and Rivers Bond Act of 1998 which, if adopted, would authorize, for the purpose of financing a program for the planning, acquisition, development, restoration, enhancement, and protection of real property and related facilities, and for the implementation of programs, for the restoration, enhancement, and protection of coastal and riparian resources, and for the prevention of pollution to coastal waters and rivers, as specified, the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of bonds in the amount of $663,000,000. The bill would provide for the submission of the bond act to the voters at the general election to be held November 3, 1998.
AB 1169 (Shelley) Environmental and Resources Agencies: Posting of Electronic Data
AB 1169 would require the Resources Agency and the California Environmental Protection Agency, and every state agency within those agencies to post, on an appropriate information page on the internet, specified information including information concerning meetings. The bill would require those agencies, in addition to providing information that is accessible by personal computer, to continue to make printed copies of all information and documents pertaining to matters within the agency's jurisdiction available to the public at a reasonable cost.
AB 1188 (Lempert) Coastal Access Easements
AB 1188 bill would prohibit the commission, the Coastal Conservancy, and other state agencies from taking any action to extinguish, through a transfer, sale, or other mechanism, public access rights to any open and operating public accessway that provides access to or along the sea unless the commission has approved that proposed action by a 3/4 vote of the commission's appointed membership.
AB 1228 (Ducheney) Public Beach Enhancement
AB 1228 would establish the California Public Beach Enhancement Program, to be administered by the Department of Boating and Waterways, for specified public beach enhancement purposes. The bill would require the department, not later than January 1, 1999, to establish the California Public Beach Enhancement Program Technical Advisory Committee, and would prescribe the membership and functions of the committee. The bill would appropriate $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to be used to establish and fund the program.
AB 1293 (Bowen) Geographic Information Systems
AB 1293 would enact the Strategic Geographic Information Investment Act of 1997. It would require the Department of Information Technology to create an advisory board, with a described membership, and with specified duties. It would require the department, in consultation with the board, to administer grants under the Geographic Information Grant Program for the development of new, and maintenance of, framework data bases for geographic information systems. It would establish the Geographic Information Grant Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of funding the grant program, and provide that moneys in the fund shall be subject to appropriation in the annual Budget Act.
AJR 1 (Lempert) State Highway Route 1
AJR 1 would memorialize the President and the Congress to support the efforts of Congressman Lantos to reallocate $52,000,000 in federal emergency highway repair funds and any other funds available for construction of a tunnel on State Highway Route 1 behind Devil's Slide through San Pedro Mountain in northern San Mateo County.
AJR 12 (Mazzoni) Bolinas Lagoon
AJR 12 would memorialize the President and the Congress to appropriate federal funds to be used to preserve and protect the Bolinas Lagoon.
SB 2 (Thompson) Parks and Resources Improvement: Bond Act
SB 2 would enact the Parks and Resources Improvement Bond Act of 1998 which, if adopted, would authorize, for the purpose of financing a program for the acquisition, development, improvement, rehabilitation, restoration, enhancement, and protection of park, recreational, cultural, historical, fish and wildlife, lake, riparian, reservoir, delta, river, and coastal resources, as specified, the issuance, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, of bonds in the amount of $495,000,000.
SB 72 (McPherson) Coastal Development Permit Fees: Coastal Access Grants
SB 72 would require that coastal development permit fees collected by the Commission be deposited in a coastal access account, which would be created in the State Coastal Conservancy Fund, for grants to public agencies and nonprofit entities or organizations for the development, maintenance and operation of new and existing facilities that provide public access to the sea. This bill would result in approximately $600,000 being appropriated to public access grants in fiscal year 97-98.
SB 499 (Alpert) Coastal Zone: Polluted Runoff
SB 499 would require the State Water Resources Control Board and the commission to work cooperatively together to develop implement a federally approvable coastal nonpoint pollution control program with specified components, as required by the Coastal Zone Act Reauthorization Amendments of 1990.
SB 673 (Karnette) Water Quality: Contaminated Sediment
SB 673 would require the Coastal Commission, in cooperation with the State Water Resources Control Board, to establish a contaminated sediments program and to prepare a long-term management plan for the dredging and disposal of contaminated sediments in coastal waters, and would appropriate, from the General Fund, $100,000 to the Commission and $100,000 to the state board, for each of 5 fiscal years, commencing with 1997-98 fiscal year, for the preparation of the plan.
SB 676 (Peace) Coastal Resources: Coastal Development Permits: Mitigation
SB 676 would make legislative findings and declarations that the California Coastal Commission should not require any applicant who applies for a coastal development permit for a project that is proposed to be located in the coastal zone to perform any mitigation measures as a condition of obtaining the permit if mitigation measures would apply to an area outside of the county in which the project is proposed to be located.
SB 715 (Sher) Environmental Quality: State Guidelines
SB 715 would require criteria for public agencies to use in determining when a proposed project is of sufficient statewide, regional, or area wide environmental significance to determine when a proposed project shall, rather than should, be submitted to appropriate state agencies for review and comment, thereby imposing a state-mandated local program by imposing new duties on local agencies that are required to comply with the guidelines.
SB 1006 (Hayden) Marine Life Refuges
SB 1006 would designate specified ocean waters south of the City of Malibu as the Malibu Marine Life Refuge and specified ocean waters south of Point Dume as the Point Dume Marine Life Refuge.
SB 1119 (Hayden) Coastal Resources: Certified Local Coastal programs
SB 1119 would make legislative findings and declarations that the California Coastal Commission should make every effort possible to assist local governments in the preparation of certified local coastal programs, including providing financial assistance through a grant program.
SB 1122 (Craven) Public Beach Enhancement
SB 1122 would establish the California Public Beach Enhancement Program, to be administered by the Department of Boating and Waterways, for specified public beach enhancement purposes. The bill would require the department, not later than January 1, 1999, to establish the California Public Beach Enhancement Program Technical Advisory Committee, and would prescribe the membership and functions of the committee. The bill would appropriate $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to be used to establish and fund the program.