The 2025-26 California Spending Plan: Natural Resources and Environmental Protection

Oct 16, 2025 - Additionally, the budget includes a total of $77  million General Fund in 2025-26 for CNRA to coordinate and distribute across a variety of one-time efforts and projects. The largest of these include $13.6  million for restoration efforts at Clear Lake and $10  million for the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/5080

The 2022-23 Budget: Municipal Stormwater and Urban Runoff Discharges Mandate

Feb 28, 2022 - Specifically, beginning in 2002, certain portions of Los Angeles County located in the Ballona Creek watershed were subject to a tras h “Total Maximum Daily Load ” (TMDL) plan, which carried its own trash management requirements.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4565

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

Oct 16, 2023 - The budget provides $100  million from the General Fund on a one-time basis in 2023 ‑24 for 77 specific local projects identified in a budget control section. It also includes $3  million from the General Fund on a one-time basis for the Southeast Los Angeles Cultural Center.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4807

The 2021-22 Budget: Department of Toxic Substances Control

Mar 19, 2021 - H owever, these numbers likely underestimate the number of brownfields in the state given the difficulty in estimating the number of properties that are underutilized as a result of suspected contamination.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4406

Assessing Early Implementation of Urban Water Use Efficiency Requirements

Jan 4, 2024 - DWR also was required to collect and provide data to suppliers about residential landscape area measurements so they would know h ow much land in their service area is “irrigable. ” The first statutory reporting deadline for suppliers was January 1, 2024.
https://lao.ca.gov/Publications/Report/4823

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