Port Hueneme Beach shoreline protection.

Under existing law, the Division of Boating and Waterways has powers and duties pertaining to beach erosion control, beach stabilization, and beach repair and restoration. Existing law establishes the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Fund, a special fund available upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes of parks and resources improvement. The fund makes moneys available to the State Coastal Conservancy for specified and related purposes, including, but not limited to, the acquisition, enhancement, restoration, protection, and development of coastal resources, beaches, waterfronts, and public accessways, as specified. Existing law establishes the Harbors and Watercraft Revolving Fund, a special fund available upon appropriation by the Legislature, for purposes, among other things, of the operation and maintenance of units of the state park system that have boating-related activities. This bill would appropriate $1,000,000 from the Safe Neighborhood Parks, Clean Water, Clean Air, and Coastal Protection Bond Fund to the State Coastal Conservancy for a grant to the City of Port Hueneme. The bill would require funding be allocated for emergency measures along Hueneme Beach in the City of Port Hueneme to prevent severe infrastructure damage to streets and property caused by beach erosion and flooding, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would require, if the above projects concerning emergency measures are not eligible for the bond moneys, that, $1,000,000 from the Harbors and Watercraft Fund be allocated by either loan or grant to the City of Port Hueneme for emergency measures to prevent severe infrastructure damage to streets and property located along Hueneme Beach caused by erosion and flooding, thereby making an appropriation. This bill would make findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for Hueneme Beach. This bill would become operative only if AB 606 is enacted and takes effect on or before January 1, 2014. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.