California Water Code PART 9 - DELTA LEVEE MAINTENANCE

• Section 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 12220.(c) “Local agency” means any...
• 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 significance.(b) The...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 delta...
• Section 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 criteria...
• Section 12985.
  Prior to adoption of any such criteria, the board shall hold public hearings and may revise the criteria as it determines necessary.(Added by Stats. 1973,...
• Section 12986.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to reimburse an eligible local agency pursuant to this part for costs incurred in any year for the...
• Section 12986.a.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to reimburse from the General Fund an eligible local agency pursuant to this part for costs incurred in...
• Section 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 board of...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 part....
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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...
• Section 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 management planning...
• Section 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 the United...

Last modified: October 22, 2018