Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.

Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to develop and implement a program of flood control projects at specific Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta locations for the protection of certain public benefits, including the protection of urbanized areas, water quality, recreation, navigation, and fish and wildlife habitats, and for net long-term habitat improvement. Under various laws, a private party may agree to convey an interest in real property to the state or to a 3rd party, or to expend funds in connection with the management of a real property, or both, to mitigate the adverse impacts to the environment resulting from development or other permitted activity. This bill would make an unspecified appropriation from an unspecified source to the department for the purposes of acquiring land or other property interests in certain properties in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and to initiate and implement improvements on those properties for the purposes of flood control, habitat enhancement, reduction of greenhouse gas emissions, recreation, and other visions for a sustainable Delta. The bill would require the Department of Water Resources and the Department of Fish and Game, in consultation with the State Air Resources Control Board, to prepare and submit to the Governor and the Legislature a report on the proposed implementation of the bill. The bill would prohibit the moneys appropriated in the bill from being expended until the report is submitted.