Natural resources: outdoor recreation.

(1) The California Outdoor Recreation Resources Plan Act requires the Director of Parks and Recreation to maintain and keep up to date a comprehensive plan for the development of the outdoor recreation resources of the state. The act requires the director to apply to the Department of the Interior for participation in or receipt of aid under the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965. Existing law provides that of the annual apportionment of funds received by the director pursuant to the federal Land and Water Conservation Fund Act of 1965, 60% shall be allocated for local governmental agency projects and 40% for state agency projects. Existing law requires that the 40% share allocated for state agency projects be divided as specified among the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Wildlife Conservation Board or the Department of Fish and Game, the Department of Water Resources, and the Department of Boating and Waterways. Existing law provides that the State Coastal Conservancy is eligible to compete for grants of funds for projects of an outdoor recreational nature from a 6% contingency fund established pursuant to the California Outdoor Recreation Resources Plan Act. This bill would require, instead, that the 40% share allocated for state agency projects be made available through a competitive grant program. The bill would require the Department of Parks and Recreation to expend moneys from the competitive grant program on department projects, projects of the Wildlife Conservation Board or the Department of Fish and Game, projects of the Department of Water Resources, projects of the Department of Boating and Waterways, and state conservancy projects. (2) Existing law provides that funds received pursuant to the federal Land and Water Conservation Act of 1965 are to be deposited into the Special Deposit Fund in the State Treasury, a continuously appropriated fund. By revising the purposes for which funds in a continuously appropriated fund may be used, this bill would make an appropriation.