California § 12980 - As used in this part: (a)
Full text of California Public Contract Code - PCC § 12980 — As used in this part: (a), with citation guidance and answers to common questions.
§ 12980. As used in this part: (a)
As used in this part: (a) âBoardâ means the Central Valley Flood Protection Board. (b) âDeltaâ means the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta as described in Section 12220. (c) âLocal agencyâ means any city, county, district, or other political subdivision of the state which is authorized to maintain levees. (d) âNet long-term habitat improvementâ means enhancement of riparian, fisheries, and wildlife habitat. (e) âNonproject leveeâ means a local flood control levee in the delta that is not a project facility under the State Water Resources Law of 1945, as shown on page 38 of the Department of Water Resources âSacramento-San Joaquin Delta Atlas,â dated 1993. (f) âProject leveeâ means a federal flood control levee, as shown on page 40 of the Department of Water Resources âSacramento-San Joaquin Delta Atlas,â dated 1993, that is a project facility under the State Water Resources Law of 1945 (Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 12570) and Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 12639) of Part 6), if not less than a majority of the acreage within the jurisdiction of the local agency that maintains the levee is within the primary zone of the delta, as defined in Section 29728 of the Public Resources Code.
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