Section 12980 Of Part 9. Delta Levee Maintenance From California Water Code >> Division 6. >> Part 9.
12980
. As used in this part:
(a) "Board" means the Central Valley Flood Protection Board.
(b) "Delta" means the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as described in
Section 12220.
(c) "Local agency" means any city, county, district, or other
political subdivision of the state which is authorized to maintain
levees.
(d) "Net long-term habitat improvement" means enhancement of
riparian, fisheries, and wildlife habitat.
(e) "Nonproject levee" means a local flood control levee in the
delta that is not a project facility under the State Water Resources
Law of 1945, as shown on page 38 of the Department of Water Resources
"Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Atlas," dated 1993.
(f) "Project levee" means a federal flood control levee, as shown
on page 40 of the Department of Water Resources "Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta Atlas," dated 1993, that is a project facility under
the State Water Resources Law of 1945 (Chapter 1 (commencing with
Section 12570) and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12639) of Part
6), if not less than a majority of the acreage within the
jurisdiction of the local agency that maintains the levee is within
the primary zone of the delta, as defined in Section 29728 of the
Public Resources Code.