Professional statute overview
Enactment structure, operative effect and source provenance
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Purpose and legislative effect
“This act is named the Public Resources Code.”
The Legislature states that increased requests to take water from state streams, especially for electric energy, may harm streamflows and dependent fish and wildlife resources. The Director of Fish and Game must identify and list state streams and watercourses that need minimum flow levels, include significant ones with findings, rank them by need, and finish the initial list by January 1, 1984. The Director of Fish and Game must prepare proposed streamflow requirements for each identified stream or watercourse and send them to the State Water Resources Control Board. The Director of Fish and Game may review any streamflow requirement and may propose changes, and any proposed change must be sent to the State Water Resources Control Board. The Department of Fish and Game must start studies to develop proposed streamflow requirements, and finish each study within three years.
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How the instrument operates
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Enacted 1939. The date shown identifies this source expression and should not be treated as proof that no later change exists.
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This section says the division does not create authority to delay or deny projects, and it does not override existing state agency authority.
Section 36003.
The task force must give the public a chance to review and comment after draft scoping documents and draft reports/plans are released, and those public comments must be submitted with the report and plan to the Governor and the Legislature.
Section 36402.
California states that geothermal resource wells should be regulated through the State Oil and Gas Supervisor’s authority.
Section 3700.
The state may be divided into one or more districts for this chapter, and the director fixes their boundaries.
Section 3720.
For a single geothermal lease or operating unit made up of contiguous parcels, “outer boundary line” means the boundary of the lands included in that lease or unit.
Section 3758.
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Source and current-law status
Source record view
Source record from leginfo.legislature.ca.gov · Enacted 1939
The source record does not state a definitive current-law status. Check the official publisher and later amendments before relying on this text.