Cal. PRC § 5096.825
This is the official text of Cal. PRC § 5096.825, part of California’s Public Resources Code — covers environmental protection, state parks, and natural resource management.
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Official statutory text
Two hundred ninety million dollars ($290,000,000) shall be available, upon appropriation, for the protection, creation, and enhancement of flood protection corridors and bypasses through any of the following actions:
(a) Acquiring easements and other interests in real property to protect or enhance flood protection corridors and bypasses while preserving or enhancing the agricultural use of the real property.
(b) Constructing new levees necessary for the establishment of a flood protection corridor or bypass.
(c) Setting back existing flood control levees, and in conjunction with undertaking those setbacks, strengthening or modifying existing levees and weirs.
(d) Relocating or flood proofing structures necessary for the establishment of a flood protection corridor.
(e) Acquiring interests in, or providing incentives for maintaining agricultural uses of, real property that is located in a flood plain that cannot reasonably be made safe from future flooding.
(f) Acquiring easements and other interests in real property to protect or enhance flood protection corridors while preserving or enhancing the wildlife value of the real property.
(g) Flood plain mapping and related activities, including both of the following:
(1) The development of flood hazard maps, including all necessary studies and surveys.
(2) Alluvial fan flood plain mapping.
(a) Acquiring easements and other interests in real property to protect or enhance flood protection corridors and bypasses while preserving or enhancing the agricultural use of the real property.
(b) Constructing new levees necessary for the establishment of a flood protection corridor or bypass.
(c) Setting back existing flood control levees, and in conjunction with undertaking those setbacks, strengthening or modifying existing levees and weirs.
(d) Relocating or flood proofing structures necessary for the establishment of a flood protection corridor.
(e) Acquiring interests in, or providing incentives for maintaining agricultural uses of, real property that is located in a flood plain that cannot reasonably be made safe from future flooding.
(f) Acquiring easements and other interests in real property to protect or enhance flood protection corridors while preserving or enhancing the wildlife value of the real property.
(g) Flood plain mapping and related activities, including both of the following:
(1) The development of flood hazard maps, including all necessary studies and surveys.
(2) Alluvial fan flood plain mapping.
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