LAO 2003-04 Budget Analysis: Resources Issue-By-Issue TOC
Analysis of the 2003-04 Budget Bill
Resources Issue-By-Issue Contents
Overview
Expenditure Proposals and Trends
Spending by Major Program
Major Budget Changes
Crosscutting Issues
CALFED Bay-Delta Program
CALFED Created to Address Bay-Delta Water Problems
CALFED Governance Legislation Enacted Last Year
The Budget Proposal
Recommend Holding Joint Hearings
Federal Funding Highly Uncertain
Budget Proposes Greater Role for Bay-Delta Authority Than
Envisioned in Governance Legislation
Legislative Oversight of Bond Funds for CALFED
Environmental Protection Indicators
Administration's Environmental Indicators Initiative
Should Be a Legislative Role in EPIC
Recommend Enactment of Legislation to Guide EPIC
Fund Conditions For Resources
Programs
Resources Special Funds
Resources Bond Fund Conditions
Bond Issues for Legislative Consideration
Proposition 50 Water-Related
Proposals Need Better Definition
Resource Assessments: improving
effectiveness And creating Savings
Background
Opportunities for Fee Cost Recovery And Efficiencies at
Fish and Game
Increased Value Can Be Achieved From Forestry's Resource
Assessment Efforts
Resource Secretary's Assessment Activities Can Be Reduced
Timber Harvest Fees
Oversight of Electricity Contract
Settlement Funds
Coordinating State Agency
Representation Before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
Several State Agencies Represent the State Before FERC
FERC Representation Reasonable Given Current Organization
of State's Energy Agencies
Future of State's FERC Representation Depends on State's
Energy Agency Organization
Departmental
Issues
Secretary for Resources (0540)
Funding for River Parkways and Sierra Nevada Programs
Should Be Provided Through Legislation
Proposition 50 Statewide Administration Proposal
Energy Resources Conservation and Development
Commission (3360)
Rethinking Funding the CEC's Power Plant Siting Program
CEC's Power Plant Siting Program
CEC's Siting Fee Study
Siting Fees on Power Plant Developers and Generators Are
Appropriate
Recommend Enactment of Fee Legislation
Department of Forestry And Fire
Protection (3540)
Legislature Should Enact Fire Protection Fees
Recommend Rejection of Computer Aided Dispatch Proposal
Wildlife Conservation Board (3640)
Legislature Lacks Effective Oversight Over $1 Billion
in Bond Expenditures
Colorado River Proposal Contrary to Bond And Implementing
Legislation
Shift Habitat Conservation Fund Support From General Fund
to Bond Funds
California Coastal Commission (3720)
Coastal Commission's Legal Status Is Uncertain
Department of Parks and Recreation
(3790)
Reorganization Proposal Lacks Information
Historical and Cultural Grants Funding Should Be
Consistent With Existing Statute
Recommend Deleting Funding for Statewide Acquisition
Program
Concession and Operating Agreement Proposals
Department of Water Resources (3860)
Fee-Based Cost Recovery for Dam Safety Program
Funding for Desalination Projects Is Premature
Air Resources Board (3900)
Stationary Source Fee Proposal Lacks Detail, Should Go
Further
Agriculture Exemption Could Cost State Transportation
Funds
Department of Pesticide Regulation
(3930)
Governor's Proposal to Increase Fee-Based Support
Recommend Different Mixture of Fees to Generate Proposed
Revenue Increase
Governor's Fee Proposal Is Step in Right Direction, But
Should Go Further
State Water Resources Control Board
(3940)
Funding the SWRCB's Water Rights Program
The SWRCB's Water Rights Program
Increasing Fee-Based Support
Substantial Workload Backlog Exists
Office of Environmental Health
Hazard Assessment (3980)
Alternative Fund Sources for OEHHA Programs
Governor's Proposed Pesticide Review Shift Problematic
Alternative Fund Sources to Proposed General Fund
Reductions
Alternative Fund Sources to Create Additional General Fund
Savings
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