California Fish and Game Code

§ 1786

FGC § 1786 Effective Jan 1, 1994Div. 2 · Ch. 7.8 · Art. 3

Statute text

(a)Before any wetlands are created on the bank site qualified pursuant to Section 1785, the department shall coordinate and shall be a signatory to a memorandum of understanding with the operator. The United States Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Fish and Wildlife Service of the United States Department of the Interior, the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, and the State Department of Health Services or its designee, or any of them, may be signatories by indicating to the department their interest in participating within 90 days of being notified by the department of the department’s intent to initiate the procedures described in this section. Any county located in whole or in part in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Valley may, by ordinance, require that it be a signatory to any memorandum of understanding for a bank site to be established within its boundary.

(b)The memorandum of understanding shall include, but is not limited to, all of the following items:

(1)Identification of the mitigation bank site, including the legal property description, acreage, types, and location of existing wetlands within the boundaries of the bank site.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 1254, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1994.