State lands: tidelands and submerged lands.

(1) Existing law grants to the City of Pittsburg certain tidelands and submerged lands in trust for purposes of commerce, navigation, and fisheries, and for other public trust purposes, including preservation of the lands in their natural state for scientific study, open space, wildlife habitat, and recreational and visitor-oriented uses. This bill would provide that Brown's Island is not part of that grant. The bill would require a survey of the trust lands to be completed and recorded by the State Lands Commission by January 1, 2013. (2) The Kapiloff Land Bank Act creates the Land Bank Fund and continuously appropriates moneys in the fund, subject to a statutory trust, to the State Lands Commission, acting as the Land Bank Trustee, to acquire real property or any interest in real property for the purposes of public trust title settlements. Existing law authorizes any party to deposit moneys into the fund for purposes of specified or unspecified projects to provide for management and improvement of real property held by the trustee to provide open space, habitat for plants and animals, and public access. This bill would authorize funds to be deposited for projects to provide for access to, as well as management and improvement of, that real property. By authorizing moneys in the fund to be expended for a new purpose, the bill would make an appropriation.