Flood control: state financial assistance: Pajaro River.

Existing law provides for state cooperation with the federal government in the construction of specified flood control projects, and prescribes requirements to be met prior to state authorization of flood management projects that receive state financial aid. Existing law authorizes the state to provide subvention funds, as prescribed, to the Counties of Monterey and Santa Cruz, or to local agencies in those counties, for a flood control project on the Pajaro River, as described, at an estimated cost to the state of the sum that may be appropriated by the Legislature upon the recommendation and advice of the Department of Water Resources, as specified, and provided the county or local agency receiving these funds indemnifies the state for liability that may result from the project. This bill would authorize the state, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to make funds available to plan, engineer, design, and construct a flood control project on the Pajaro River, as described. In the absence of federal funding, the bill would authorize the state, through the Flood Control Subventions Program, to provide this funding for the project as the project is described in a specified report by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. This bill would limit the funding for planning, engineering, designing, and constructing the project to the amount that would be the equivalent state share if there was federal project funding.