Section 12669 Of Article 2. Projects In The Sacramento-san Joaquin Watersheds From California Water Code >> Division 6. >> Part 6. >> Chapter 2. >> Article 2.
12669
. The plan of improvement for flood control and other purposes
on the Fresno County Stream Group identified as the Redbank-Fancher
Creeks Flood Control Project, including the Redbank Creek Detention
Basin, is hereby adopted and authorized substantially in accordance
with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers in House Document
Numbered 98-147, at an estimated cost to the state of such sum as may
be appropriated for state cooperation by the Legislature upon
recommendation and advice of the department or Reclamation Board,
except that no nonflood control application of water may occur within
the Redbank Creek Detention Basin except for landscape irrigation or
dust control. The preconstruction environmental assessment by the
United States Army Corp of Engineers shall include the conduct of
field permeability tests and consideration of the recommendations set
forth in the "Evaluation Of Impacts On The THAN Site By The Proposed
Redbank Creek Flood Detention Basin," 1988, of the State Department
of Health Services, Toxic Substances Control Division. Basin design
criteria and operational procedures shall include, but not be limited
to, the detailed post excavation soils mapping, installation and
monitoring of observation wells, and creation of a contingency fund,
as indicated by the environmental assessment and as required for
compliance with the California Environmental Quality Act (Division 13
(commencing with Section 21000) of the Public Resources Code). If
state bond act moneys are available for flood control purposes, the
Legislature may appropriate those moneys for this project. This
authorization shall not be deemed to confer preference on this
project over the needs of other statewide programs in the
appropriation of available funds. Funds shall be appropriated
pursuant to this authorization only upon the act of Congress adopting
and authorizing the project as substantially described in House
Document Numbered 98-147. The Legislature affirms the topographical
and hydrological characteristics of the Fresno County Stream Group
for which provision for participation in reservoirs has been made in
Section 12868 and determines that the Redbank-Fancher Creeks Flood
Control Project is a project on the Fresno County Stream Group, as
defined and excepted in Section 12826. The department or Reclamation
Board may loan the local agency the funds necessary to pay the local
portion of the costs of the lands, easements, and rights-of-way, less
the credit provided by Section 12585.3. The rate of interest on the
loan shall be the current rate for the Pooled Money Investment
Account. The department or Reclamation Board may pay 50 percent of
the nonfederal capital costs of the recreation and fish and wildlife
enhancement features of the project.