PART 9. DELTA LEVEE MAINTENANCE
Part 9 added by Stats. 1973, Ch. 717.
§§ 12980–12995 · 17 sections
- § 12980 As used in this part: (a) “Board” means the Central Valley Flood Protection Board. (b) “Delta” means the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as described in Section…
- § 12981 (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the delta is endowed with many invaluable and unique resources and that these resources are of major statewide…
- § 12982 The Legislature further finds and declares that while most of the delta’s levees are privately owned and maintained they are being subjected to varied multiple…
- § 12983 The Legislature further finds and declares that there is an urgent need for a higher degree of levee maintenance and rehabilitation generally throughout the…
- § 12984 The department shall develop and submit to the board, for adoption by the board, criteria for the maintenance and improvement of nonproject levees. The…
- § 12985 Prior to adoption of any such criteria, the board shall hold public hearings and may revise the criteria as it determines necessary.
- § 12986 (a) The department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, shall reimburse an eligible local agency pursuant to this part for costs incurred in any year for…
- § 12987 (a) Local agencies maintaining project or nonproject levees shall be eligible for reimbursement pursuant to this part upon submission to and approval by the…
- § 12987.5 (a) In an agreement entered into under Section 12987, the board may provide for an advance to the applicant in an amount not to exceed 75 percent of the…
- § 12988 Upon the completion in any year of the maintenance or improvement work, including annual routine maintenance work, as specified in the plans approved by the…
- § 12989 (a) The department shall conduct at least one annual inspection of every levee for which maintenance or improvement costs have been reimbursed pursuant to this…
- § 12990 Whenever the department finds that the annual routine maintenance work specified in the plans approved by the board is not being performed in accordance with…
- § 12991 The board is authorized to make, from time to time, such rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry out, and as are consistent with, this part.
- § 12992 Before any plan is approved, agreement entered into, or moneys advanced or reimbursed under this part, the local agency shall first enter into an agreement…
- § 12993 Applicants shall apply for federal disaster assistance, whenever eligible, under Public Law 93-288. If, and to the extent that, it is determined that the work…
- § 12994 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The CALFED Bay-Delta Program has identified as a core action the need for emergency levee…
- § 12995 (a) The Legislature hereby finds and declares both of the following: (1) There is an urgent need for rehabilitation and improvement of delta levees, and that…