The 2025-26 Budget: State Mandate—Santa Ana Regional Water Quality Control Board

May 5, 2025 - The Governor proposes suspending the requirements for the historic period and denying reimbursement to local governments on the basis that it believes that local governments always had fee authority to cover their costs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5039

The 2025-26 Budget: May Revision Trailer Bill Proposals on the Delta Conveyance Project and Water Quality Control Plans

May 27, 2025 - In March  2024, the superior court denied the petitioners ’ combined 116 claims, ruling that SWRCB had complied with CEQA, the public trust doctrine, and other legal obligations. Another source of delay has been consideration of VAs.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5053

Department of Toxic Substances Control: Performance Improvement Initiatives Merit Oversight

Apr 4, 2017 - The facility ceased operations in 2014 when DTSC notified Exide that its application for a new permit would be denied. Testing indicated that releases of lead dust from the facility contaminated areas up to 1.7 miles from the facility and impacted thousands of properties including private residences, parks, and schools.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3644

The 2024-25 Budget: CalFire—Implementation of a 66-Hour Workweek

Mar 19, 2024 - A major drawback to this approach is that maintaining a lower staff ing factor would deny firefighters the benefit of additional capacity to cover time off for vacations, training, and other activities.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4886

The 2018-19 Budget: Resources and Environmental Protection

Feb 14, 2018 - However, the proposal by DWR does not specify which projects will be funded, denying the Legislature the ability to provide sufficient oversight over how these funds will be spent. The state ’s flood management infrastructure has billions of dollars of needed renovations and improvements according to various reports, and it is unclear which of those needs will be targeted by the proposed funding.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/3747

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

Oct 16, 2023 - The 2023‑24 budget package provides a total of $19.2 billion from various fund sources—the General Fund, bond funds, a number of special funds, and federal funds—for programs administered by the California Natural Resources Agency (CNRA) and Environmental Protection Agency. This is a net decrease of $15.5 billion (45 percent) compared to 2022‑23 estimated levels.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4807