Section 79543 Of Chapter 5. Clean Water And Water Quality From California Water Code >> Division 26.5. >> Chapter 5.
79543
. (a) The sum of one hundred million dollars ($100,000,000)
shall be available for appropriation by the Legislature from the fund
to the board for the purpose of financing projects that restore and
protect the water quality and environment of coastal waters,
estuaries, bays and nearshore waters, and groundwater.
(b) All expenditures, grants, and loans made pursuant to this
section shall be consistent with the requirements of Article 5
(commencing with Section 79148) of Chapter 7 of Division 26.
(c) Of the money made available pursuant to this section, not less
than twenty million dollars ($20,000,000) shall be expended to
implement priority actions specified in the Santa Monica Bay
Restoration Plan. Money appropriated pursuant to this subdivision
shall be allocated as recommended by the Santa Monica Bay Restoration
Commission.
(d) Money made available pursuant to this section shall
supplement, not supplant, money appropriated or available pursuant to
that Article 5 (commencing with Section 79148), and no money
appropriated pursuant to this section shall be used for a project for
which an appropriation was made pursuant to that Article 5
(commencing with Section 79148).