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Major Accomplishments in 2006-07

Despite continuing budgetary pressures, the 2006 Budget Act increased funding in areas critical to maintaining, restoring, and enhancing California's natural resources.

  • To further diminish threats from levee failure and flooding, the Budget included $35 million General Fund and 30 new positions in the Department of Water Resources to improve and maintain the flood control system and $41.3 million General Fund for six new or continuing flood control capital projects.
  • The Budget provided a one-time appropriation of $100 million General Fund to reimburse local flood control agencies on a cost-sharing basis for all rights-of-way and relocation costs of channel improvement and levee projects.
  • The Budget included $19 million General Fund to strengthen programs that protect and manage ocean resources. Specifically, a total of $4 million ongoing and $10 million in one-time funding was provided for implementation of the Marine Life Protection Act and the Marine Life Management Act in the budgets of the Ocean Protection Council and the Department of Fish and Game. An additional $5 million in ongoing funding was included for activities related to the regulation of aquaculture and bottom trawling.
  • Significant augmentations to correct fiscal problems and expand programs at the Department of Fish and Game were also provided in the Budget. It included $14.9 million ongoing and $19.9 million one-time funding to address shortfalls in the Fish and Game Preservation Fund and to repay previous borrowing from dedicated accounts within the Fund.
  • Augmentations of $10 million General Fund one-time and $4 million General Fund ongoing were provided for the Salmon and Steelhead Restoration program. The Budget also provided one-time appropriations of $8.8 million General Fund for emergency work to repair storm damage on department lands, $10 million General Fund to manage nongame fish and wildlife, and $5 million General Fund to manage coastal wetlands.
  • To address remediation of toxic materials at the Empire Mine State Historical Park, the Budget provided $5 million General Fund in one-time funding to the Department of Parks and Recreation. The Budget included $11.8 million General Fund to continue bringing the state parks into compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.
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