Delta flood protection.

Existing law governing levee maintenance in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta requires the Department of Water Resources to develop and submit to the Central Valley Flood Protection Board, for adoption by the board, criteria for the maintenance and improvement of levees that are not project facilities under the State Water Resources Law of 1945, known as nonproject levees, as prescribed. If the department finds that the annual routine maintenance work specified in the plans approved by the board is not being performed in accordance with the agreement entered into between the local agency and the board, the department is authorized to establish a maintenance area and thereafter annually maintain the nonproject levee in accordance with those plans and subject to specified provisions of law. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that authorization.