California Public Resources Code

§ 35620

PRC § 35620 Effective Jan 1, 2011Div. 26.5 · Ch. 3

Statute text

(a)Consistent with this chapter, and subject to the availability of funding, the council shall support state agencies’ use and sharing of scientific and geospatial information for coastal- and ocean-relevant decisionmaking, including marine spatial planning, by taking all of the following actions:

(1)Assess the needs of California’s public agencies with respect to their abilities to gather, manage, use, and share information and decision-support tools relevant to ecosystem-based management in the coastal and ocean environment.

(2)Subject to a determination of need in paragraph (1) and in consultation with the relevant coastal or ocean management agency, increase the amount of baseline scientific and geospatial information that is available to public agencies in a publicly accessible, electronic, and geospatial format with respect to the following aspects of coastal and ocean ecosystems:

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 544, Sec. 2. (AB 2125) Effective January 1, 2011.