An Initial Review of the Regional Forest and Fire Capacity Program

Dec 13, 2021 - Third, grantees differ in their use of priority ranking. Some partner agencies within regions ranked all of their identified priority projects numerically or in tiers. In other cases, neither the RFFC grantee nor their partner agencies identified any prioritization of the projects in their regional priority plan.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4482

The 2024-25 Budget: Flood Management Proposals

Feb 26, 2024 - One of the locations has been assigned a risk ‑based assessment of “very high priority ” (the highest level) by the Delta Stewardship Council, with the other rated as “high priority ” (the council ’s middle ranking).
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4856

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

Mar 19, 2024 - For example, the Legislature could look into creating a Lieutenant classification as a rank between Fire Captain and Fire Apparatus Engineer, which could enable Fire Apparatus Engineers to promote more quickly.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4886

The 2024-25 Budget: Sustainable Funding for the Department of Pesticide Regulation

Mar 5, 2024 - The  inclusion of the statutory caps also aligns with the recommendations in the independent contractor ’s report. We find the specific new caps the Governor proposes for the two mill assessments —33 .9  mills for all pesticides and the additional 1.04 mills specifically for agricultural use pesticides —to be reasonable.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4873

The 2023-24 Budget: Department of Water Resources

Mar 2, 2023 - (The remaining 421 basins ranked as being lower in priority —generally smaller and more remote —are encouraged but not required to adhere to SGMA.) While comprising less than one ‑fifth of the groundwater basins in California, the 94 high ‑ and medium ‑priority basins account for 98  percent of California ’s annual groundwater pumping.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4725

Overview of California's Ports

Aug 23, 2022 - For example, nearly all of the census tracts that surround the Ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles are ranked in the top one-third of the most pollution burdened in the state, according to the California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool (CalEnviroScreen), a tool which assesses communities ’ pollution burden and vulnerability.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4618

The 2021-22 Budget: Department of Toxic Substances Control

Mar 19, 2021 - That is, the Governor indicates that he will support inclusion of this $ 300  m illion for addressing brownfields only if the Legislature also approves his proposals to add a new governing board and increase the HWCA and TSCA charges.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4406

Improving California’s Response to the Environmental and Safety Hazards Caused by Abandoned Mines

Aug 4, 2020 - EPA, which uses its Hazard Ranking System (HRS) to place sites on the National Priorities List (NPL). The NPL includes the highest ‑priority sites among the known releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the U.S.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4258

What Can We Learn From How the State Responded to the Last Major Drought?

May 13, 2021 - During the drought period, the state experienced four wildfires that ranked among the top 20 for greatest area burned in California, and two fires that were among the state ’s 20 m ost destructive. This was partly due to extremely dry conditions combined with a large number of dead and dying trees across the state, particularly in the southern Sierra region.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4429

The 2022-23 Budget: Overview of the Governor's Budget

Jan 13, 2022 - This is in addition to full inclusion of 2022 ‑23 funding that was agreed to by the Legislature and the Governor as part of the 2021 ‑22 budget for different packages of proposals related to climate resilience, zero ‑emission vehicles (ZEVs), and drought.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4492