State property: tidelands transfer: City of Pittsburg.

(1) Existing law grants tidelands and submerged lands to the City of Pittsburg, subject to specified conditions, for purposes of commerce, navigation, and fisheries, and for other public trust purposes. 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. This bill would repeal the existing codified legislative grant to the City of Pittsburg and would enact a new uncodified grant of tidelands and submerged lands, as described, to the City of Pittsburg. The bill would require the trust lands to be held by the City of Pittsburg, as trustee, for the benefit of all the people of the state for purposes consistent with the public trust doctrine, including the protection of maritime or water dependent commerce, navigation, and fisheries, and the preservation of the lands in their natural state for scientific study, open space, wildlife habitat, and water-oriented recreation. The bill would require, on June 30, 2012, and at the end of every fiscal year thereafter, that 20% of all gross revenues generated from the trust lands be transmitted to the commission, for allocation by the Treasurer, of which 80% would be deposited in the General Fund and 20% in the Kapiloff Land Bank Fund, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require the commission, by January 1, 2014, to survey, monument, and record a plat and a metes and bounds description of the trust lands subject to the bill. The bill would impose a state-mandated local program by requiring, among other things, that the City of Pittsburg submit to the commission for its approval a trust lands use plan, as prescribed. The bill would require the city to file a report with the commission by September 30, 2022, and every 5 years thereafter, on its uses of the trust lands, and to annually file a detailed statement of trust revenues and expenditures. (2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.