Public resources: parklands, freshwater resources, and coastal resources: off-highway motor vehicles: public lands.

(1) Existing law, until January 1, 2020, generally prohibits a person from possessing, importing, shipping, or transporting in the state, or from placing, planting, or causing to be placed or planted in any water within the state, dreissenid mussels, and authorizes the Director of Fish and Wildlife or the director's designee to engage in various enforcement activities with regard to dreissenid mussels. Among those activities, existing law authorizes the director to conduct inspections of waters of the state and facilities located within waters of the state that may contain dreissenid mussels and, if those mussels are detected or may be present, order the closure of the affected waters or facilities to conveyances or otherwise restrict access to the affected waters or facilities, with the concurrence of the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency. This bill would extend to January 1, 2030, the repeal date of those provisions. Under existing law, a violation of these provisions is a crime. By extending the operation of these provisions, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (2) Existing law establishes the State Lands Commission in the Natural Resources Agency and prescribes the functions and duties of the commission. Under current law, the State Lands Commission cedes concurrent criminal jurisdiction to the United States with regard to specified properties. Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to convey land that it owns within its boundaries to the United States to be used for federal purposes, as specified. Existing law cedes to the United States exclusive jurisdiction over land conveyed for these purposes, reserving concurrent jurisdiction with the United States for the execution of all civil and criminal process, issued under authority of the state, as if the conveyance had not been made. This bill would repeal the provision ceding jurisdiction over land conveyed pursuant to the provisions authorizing the legislative body of a local agency to convey land that it owns within its boundaries to the United States to be used for federal purposes. (3) Existing law establishes the State Coastal Conservancy in state government, and prescribes the powers and duties of the conservancy with regard to the protection, preservation, and enhancement of specified coastal lands in the coastal zone, as defined. Existing law requires the conservancy to implement various coastal protection programs and projects, and, for purposes of those provisions, defines a "nonprofit organization" to mean any private, nonprofit organization, that qualifies under a specified provision of the United States Internal Revenue Code and whose purposes are consistent with specified provisions related to the conservancy. This bill would remove the requirement from that definition that the nonprofit organization's purpose be consistent with specified provisions related to the conservancy. Existing law authorizes the State Coastal Conservancy to grant funds to a nonprofit organization under specified coastal protection programs and projects if the nonprofit organization enters into an agreement with the conservancy, subject to terms and conditions specified by the conservancy. Existing law requires any funds collected from a nonprofit organization pursuant to an agreement regarding a grant issued by the conservancy to be deposited in the Nonprofit Organization Land Trust Account in the State Coastal Conservancy Fund. This bill would remove the requirement that any funds collected from a nonprofit organization pursuant to an agreement regarding a grant be deposited in the Nonprofit Organization Land Trust Account in the State Coastal Conservancy Fund, and would remove the provisions establishing the account in the fund. (4) The California Clean Water, Clean Air, Safe Neighborhood Parks, and Coastal Protection Act of 2002, among other things, authorized the issuance of grants to local governments from the sale of bonds for the acquisition, development, restoration, and enhancement of local parks, pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law, in specified amounts. This bill would authorize the County of San Diego to transfer a specified parcel of park property, acquired with those bond funds, to the San Diego County Water Authority and would authorize the county to accept a transfer of a different specified parcel from the California Department of Transportation, if certain conditions are satisfied, including that the county signs an agreement with the Department of Parks and Recreation that ensures that the parcel transferred to the county is maintained and operated in perpetuity for park purposes, as provided. The bill would state legislative findings and declarations that the transfer of the state property is not a sale or other disposition of surplus state property within the meaning of the California Constitution. (5) Existing law, the Chappie-Z'berg Off-Highway Motor Vehicle Law of 1971, sets forth operating requirements and restrictions on off-highway motor vehicles, including, among others, all-terrain vehicles and recreational off-highway vehicles. Existing law applies those requirements and restrictions to off-highway motor vehicles operating on lands, other than a highway, that are open and accessible to the public, as specified, except private lands under the immediate control of the owner or the owner's agent if permission is required and has been granted to operate a motor vehicle. This bill would clarify that the requirements and restrictions on the operation of all-terrain and recreational off-highway vehicles applies to their operation on these lands. (6) Existing law ratified the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact, a bilateral agreement between the States of Nevada and California, to regulate development and preserve the natural environment and economic productivity of the Lake Tahoe region, defined to include specified areas in the Lake Tahoe basin and surrounding areas. The compact establishes the Tahoe Transportation District and prescribes the membership of the district's board of directors, which includes one member of each local transportation district in the region. If the Legislature of the State of California or the State of Nevada authorizes the creation of local transportation districts at Lake Tahoe, existing law requires that these local districts be entitled to a voting seat on the Tahoe Transportation District's board of directors, as specified. The compact authorizes the California Legislature and the Nevada Legislature to amend those provisions of the compact governing the Tahoe Transportation District by substantially identical enactments. This bill would amend the compact to change the membership of the board of directors of the Tahoe Transportation District by eliminating from the board those members of local transportation districts in the region and by adding to the board one appointee each made by the governing body of the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, the Governor of California, and the Governor of Nevada. The bill would require the board to elect a chairperson and a vice chairperson, as specified. The bill would delete the requirement that a legislatively authorized local transportation district at Lake Tahoe be entitled to a voting seat on the Tahoe Transportation District's board of directors. The bill would declare that its provisions shall become operative only if the State of Nevada, by a substantially identical enactment, adopts that amendment to the compact. (7) Existing law authorizes the Department of Parks and Recreation, upon application by the proper authorities, to grant permits and easements for certain purposes and to certain entities, including, among other things, to a public agency for public roads. This bill would additionally authorize the department to grant a permit and easement to a public agency for public bicycle and pedestrian trails. (8) Existing law establishes the California Farmland Conservancy Program Act, to be administered generally by the Department of Conservation, and provides that it is the intent of the act to, among other things, encourage voluntary, long-term private stewardship of agricultural lands by offering landowners financial incentives, encourage local land use planning for orderly and efficient urban growth and conservation of agricultural land, and encourage improvements to enhance long-term sustainable agricultural uses. The act establishes the California Farmland Conservancy Program Fund and requires, except as provided, moneys in the fund, upon appropriation, to be used for the purposes of the California Farmland Conservancy Program, which include, among other things, the purchase of agricultural conservation easements, fee title acquisition grants, and land improvement and planning grants. The act requires an agricultural conservation easement to be granted to a local government, nonprofit organization, resource conservation district, or a regional park or open-space district or regional park or open-space authority, as specified. This bill would authorize an agricultural conservation easement to be granted to any organization or entity authorized to acquire and hold conservation easements. (9) Existing law requires the Department of Conservation to conduct a study and propose an implementation strategy to meet the intent of the soil conservation plan adopted by the soil conservation committee. Existing law requires the department to report the results of this study to the Legislature on or before December 1, 1988. Existing law requires the department to conduct a certain study of resource conservation districts in California and report the result of the study to the Legislature on or before December 1, 1989. This bill would eliminate these provisions. (10) Existing law requires the Department of Conservation to provide soil conservation advisory services to local governments, land owners, farmers and ranchers, resource conservation districts, and the general public, that include, among other things, review of environmental impact reports as required under the California Environmental Quality Act. This bill would specify that soil conservation advisory services instead include review of documents prepared under the act. (11) Existing law exempts specified grants awarded by the Department of Conservation from certain requirements pertaining to public contracts. This bill would instead exempt specified grants administered by the department from these requirements. (12) This bill would correct and update cross-references and make various nonsubstantive changes. (13) This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute pertaining to the lands in the County of San Diego that are involved in the transfer described in (4) above. (14) 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.