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Table 3. Funds at risk in the Environmental License Plate Account.
Agency or Department Proposition 117 Budget 1
Resources (Tahoe
Planning)
Special Resources
Program
California Tahoe
Conservancy
0 75,000 Unknown
0 665,000 No Overlap
See Table 2 1,826,000 Unknown
Air Resources Board 0 1,104,000 No Overlap
Colorado River Board 0 8,000 Unknown
Forestry and Fire
Protection
0 4,289,000 No Overlap
Potential Overlap
Fish and Game 0 16,685,000 See Table 2, Text
Wildlife Conservation
Board
California Coastal
Commission
See Table 2 0 Some
0 442,000 Unknown
State Coastal Conservancy 4,000,000 0 Complete Overlap
Parks and Recreation See Table 2 490,000 See Table 2, Text
Water Resources 0 2,736,000 Unknown
Education 0 515,000 No Overlap
Food and Agriculture 0 156,000 No Overlap
General Fund Credits 0 25,000 No Overlap
1 From the governor's 1990-1991 budget.
wildlife areas. The California Coastal Conservancy is to get
$4,000,000, the California Tahoe Conservancy $500,000,
and the Wildlife Conservation Board $11,000,000. From
1990-1991 through July 1, 1995, the Santa Monica
Mountains Conservancy was to get $10,000,000 per year.
After July 1, 1995, this allocation terminated and reverted
to the Wildlife Conservation Board.
Agencies may spend these funds to acquire habitat
for deer, mountain lions, or rare, endangered, threatened, or
fully protected species. They may acquire Significant
Natural Areas, acquire, enhance, or restore wetlands,
riparian areas, or aquatic habitats for spawning or rearing
anadromous salmonids and trout.
Over a 2-year period, one-third of the money
should be spent to acquire deer and mountain lion habitat,
and the other two-thirds to acquire habitat for listed or
protected species. Over the same period, $6,000,000 should
be spent on wetlands and the same amount on aquatic and
riparian areas. In addition, half of the total should be spent
in northern California (north of the Tehachapi Mountains)
and half in southern California.
What Has Been Accomplished?
In the first four years, Proposition 117 funds
purchased about 195,467 1 acres for the state. It provided
studies, assessments, and plans for 1,178,131 acres.
Improvements actually have been done on 51,218 acres
(Figure 3). These are approximate figures because agencies
often mixed planning and enhancement or purchase in the
same reporting figure. Also, some agencies did not report
acreages of land studied or enhanced, although they had
large acreages of those kinds of projects. The acres
reported for planning and improvement are inflated because
they include work done with funds other than those from
Proposition 117. The kinds of habitats purchased, studied,