Reducing the Destructiveness of Wildfires: Promoting Defensible Space in California

Sep 30, 2021 - A key strategy for reducing home losses during wildfires is for homeowners to maintain an area free of excess or dead vegetation around their homes, known as defensible space.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4457

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Water Resources

Mar 2, 2023 - The current request, which would average $9.2  million annually for four years, is thus in line with historical costs. These costs may seem high for the development of a plan —especially one that is an update of several previous iterations.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4725

The 2024-25 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Sep 12, 2024 - As shown, the 2024 ‑25 budget reduces total multiyear spending by $921  million, retaining $9.2  billion or 91  percent of the original planned amount. Expanding the use of a strategy relied upon in the 2023 ‑24 budget agreement, this year ’s spending plan shifts nearly all remaining planned General Fund-supported activities to instead be funded using GGRF ($528  million), thereby achieving more budget solutions without additional programmatic impacts.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4928

The 2023-24 California Spending Plan: Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2023 - As shown in Figure  3, the budget package maintains $9.2  billion of this funding (92  percent), primarily through using GGRF revenues in place of some planned General Fund. Specifically, the spending plan shifts a total of $2.3  billion in intended ZEV expenditures to GGRF through 2026 ‑27 —achieving a like amount of General Fund savings —including $720  million in 2023 ‑24.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4807

The 2019-20 Budget: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 14, 2019 - Agricultural fertilizers and animal wastes app lied to croplands are by far the largest regional sources of nitrate in groundwater, although other sources can be important in certain areas. SWRCB Administers Programs to Provide Safe Drinking Water.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3933