29300-29308
PUBLIC RESOURCES CODE
SECTION 29300-29308
29300. It is the intent of the Legislature to minimize duplication and conflicts among existing state agencies carrying out their regulatory duties and responsibilities in connection with the subject matter of this division. 29301. Except as otherwise expressly provided in this division, enactment of this division does not increase, decrease, duplicate, or supersede the authority of any existing state agency. This chapter does not limit in any way the regulatory controls over development provided in Chapters 5 (commencing with Section 29400) and 6 (commencing with Section 29500); except that the commission may not set standards or adopt regulations that duplicate regulatory controls established by any existing state agency pursuant to express statutory requirements or authorization. 29302. (a) This division imposes a judicially enforceable duty on state agencies to comply with, and to carry out their duties and responsibilities in conformity with, this division and the policies of the protection plan. (b) However, this division does not subject any agency of the state or federal government to the permit requirements of Sections 29502, 29503, and 29504. (c) Further, notwithstanding any policy of the protection plan to the contrary, nothing contained in this division requires any local government or state or federal agency to establish or meet a specific water quality standard in the marsh or to maintain a specific level of delta outflow. 29303. It is the intent of the Legislature that the provisions of this division, the protection plan, and the local protection program, or any component thereof, prepared pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 29400) provide the common assumptions upon which state functional plans for the marsh are based in accordance with the provisions of Section 65036 of the Government Code. 29304. (a) The commission may periodically submit to any state agency recommendations designed to encourage such agency to carry out its functions in a manner consistent with the policies of the protection plan. The recommendations may include proposed changes in regulations, rules, and statutes. (b) Such state agency shall review and consider such recommendations and shall, in the event the recommendations are not implemented, report to the commission or the Governor and the Legislature its action and the reasons therefor within six months after receipt of the recommendations. Such report shall also include the agency's comments on any legislation which may have been proposed by the commission. (c) The procedures provided in this section do not relieve the commission of its responsibility to submit recommendations to other state agencies in a timely manner pursuant to existing procedures; and, to the maximum extent possible, the commission shall submit any recommendations authorized by subdivision (a) pursuant to such existing procedures. 29305. The Wildlife Conservation Board shall acquire title to, or a lesser right or interest in, land or water that the board determines is appropriate for the purposes of the protection plan. When authorized by the board, the department shall construct facilities that are suitable for the purpose for which the acquisitions were made. The acquisitions shall be made in accordance with the Wildlife Conservation Law of 1947 (Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 1300) of Division 2 of the Fish and Game Code) and the criteria specified in Section 29009 of this code. 29306. (a) The department and the Fish and Game Commission are the state agencies that are primarily responsible for the establishment and control of wildlife and fishery management programs, and the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission may not establish or impose any controls with respect thereto that duplicate or exceed regulatory controls established by such agencies pursuant to express statutory requirements or authorization. (b) The department shall have primary responsibility for carrying out fish and wildlife management programs in the marsh in accordance with the management recommendations in the protection plan on lands owned by the state and under the jurisdiction, control, or supervision of the department. 29307. (a) The State Lands Commission shall have the primary responsibility, in accordance with the provisions of Division 6 (commencing with Section 6001), for carrying out the management recommendations in the protection plan on lands owned by the state and under the jurisdiction, control, or supervision of the State Lands Commission, including tidelands, submerged lands, swamp and overflowed lands, and beds of navigable rivers and streams. (b) Prior to approval by the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission pursuant to Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 29400), the State Lands Commission shall review, and may comment on, the proposed local protection program, or any component thereof, that could affect state lands. (c) No power granted to any local government or district under this division, shall change the authority of the State Lands Commission over granted or ungranted lands within its jurisdiction or change the rights and duties of its grantees, lessees, or permittees. (d) Boundary settlements between the State Lands Commission and other parties and any exchanges of land in connection therewith shall not be a development within the meaning of that term as used in this division. (e) Nothing in this division shall amend or alter the terms and conditions in any legislative grant of lands, in trust, to any local government or district; except, that any development on such granted lands shall, in addition to the terms and conditions of such grant, be subject to the regulatory controls provided by Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 29500). 29308. All federal agencies, to the extent permitted under federal law or regulations or the United States Constitution, shall comply with this division and the policies of the protection plan.