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. All money deposited in the Fish and Wildlife Habitat
Enhancement Fund shall be available for appropriation by the
Legislature for the following purposes:
(a) Forty million dollars ($40,000,000) for expenditure by the
Wildlife Conservation Board pursuant to the Wildlife Conservation Law
of 1947 for the acquisition, enhancement, or development, or any
combination thereof, of lands located outside the coastal zone for
the preservation of resources and the management of wildlife and
fisheries, in accordance with the following schedule:
(1) Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) for the acquisition,
enhancement, or development, or any combination thereof, of lands for
habitat for wildfowl and other wildlife benefitted by a marsh or
aquatic environment.
(2) Ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for the restoration of
waterways for the management of fisheries and the enhancement or
development, or both, of habitat for other wildlife.
(b) Five million dollars ($5,000,000) for expenditure by the
Wildlife Conservation Board pursuant to the Wildlife Conservation Law
of 1947 for the acquisition, enhancement, or development, or any
combination thereof, of lands for habitat for rare, endangered, and
fully protected species.
(c) Thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) for expenditure by the
State Coastal Conservancy for the acquisition, enhancement, or
development, or any combination thereof, of marshlands and associated
and adjacent lands and the development of associated facilities and
for grants to local public agencies for those purposes, in accordance
with the following schedule:
(1) Twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) for grants by the
conservancy to local public agencies in the coastal zone and in the
San Francisco Bay region for the acquisition, enhancement, or
development, or any combination thereof, of marshlands and adjacent
lands for habitat for wildlife benefitted by a marsh or aquatic
environment and the improvement of drainage into wetlands to control
or retard erosion and sedimentation, and biologically and
hydrologically associated upland habitat areas. Of the amount made
available pursuant to this paragraph, not less than five million
dollars ($5,000,000) shall be available for grants for projects in
the San Francisco Bay region.
(2) Ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for expenditure by the
conservancy for the purposes authorized in this subdivision.
(d) Ten million dollars ($10,000,000) for expenditure by the
Wildlife Conservation Board pursuant to the Wildlife Conservation Law
of 1947 for the acquisition, enhancement, or development, or any
combination thereof, inside the coastal zone of marshlands and
adjacent lands for habitat for wildlife benefitted by a marsh or
aquatic environment.