California Code of Regulations › Title 23 - Waters › Division 2 - Department of Water Resources › Chapter 2.4 - Grant Program Under the Urban Creeks Restoration and Flood Control Act of 1985 › Section 451.1 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The words used in this subchapter have the meanings set forth
				  below:
(a) "Bioengineering" is the use
				of horticultural and landscape planting techniques with living materials, in
				conjunction with grading, earth moving and conventional soil stabilization
				structures, to produce a self-repairing, low-cost composite bank or
				channel.
(b) "Citizens' Group" is
				an organization of the public which has no official governmental status,
				including but not limited to clubs, societies, neighborhood organizations,
				advisory councils, and non-profit local community conservation corps and other
				non-profit organizations.
(c)
				"Co-sponsor" means a local agency involved in planning, flood control or
				waterway management or an individual or citizens' group interested in
				floodplain management and stream restoration which, jointly with the sponsor,
				supports and actively participates in a project. There may be more than one
				co-sponsor for a single project. If the sponsor is a local agency, at least one
				co-sponsor must be a citizens' group and vice-versa.
(d) "Department" means the California
				Department of Water Resources.
(e)
				"Eligible project costs" means reasonable costs associated with carrying out a
				project as described in section
				451.3, including the reasonable
				costs of organizing community and/or volunteer groups, engineering, land and
				easement acquisition, legal fees, preparation of the application for funding,
				preparation of environmental documentation, environmental mitigation, and
				construction. Costs incurred prior to applying for or entering into a contract
				for grant funding may be reimbursed at the Department's discretion. Costs that
				are not eligible include regular operation and maintenance costs, and costs for
				the purchase of movable equipment not an integral part of the
				project.
(f) "Endorse" or
				"Endorser" means a group or individual who expresses written support for a
				grant application and may or may not have a commitment to actively
				participate.
(g) "Enhancement"
				means the process of improving upon current conditions, and may be used to
				describe a program that would result in a channel gaining desired features,
				while considering conditions for fish and wildlife. It is distinguishable from
				"restoration" in that it does not imply merely a return to natural conditions,
				but may include the provision of recreation or other features that were not
				part of the natural channel.
(h)
				"Flood mitigation measures" refers to selective removal of excess sediment or
				debris deposited during a flood event which is likely to deflect or restrict
				flows and increase flooding or erosion in the future, bioengineering projects
				to restore streambanks damaged during flood events, and revegetation efforts to
				improve the fluvialgeomorphology of streams.
(i) "Local Agency" means any political
				subdivision of the State of California, including but not limited to any
				county, city, city and county, district, joint powers agency, local community
				conservation corps agency, or council of governments.
(j) "Local Community Conservation Corps" is a
				non-profit benefit corporation formed or operating pursuant to Part 2
				(commencing with Section
				5110) of Division 2 of Title 1 of
				the Corporations Code, or an agency operated by a city, or city and county,
				which is certified by the California Conservation Corps under Section
				14507.5
				of the Public Resources Code. These organizations may also be referred to as
				local urban conservation corps or local conservation corps to avoid confusion
				with the California Conservation Corps.
(k) "Nonstructural" refers to measures which
				solve flooding or erosion problems without physically changing the dimensions
				of a waterway. This may include floodplain zoning, land acquisition, flood
				insurance, watershed management, debris removal, and floodproofing of existing
				structures by elevating or building a berm around them, but does not include
				constructing storage reservoirs or lining channels.
(l) "Restore" means to reproduce and
				reestablish the physical and biological characteristics of a natural channel
				which would occur at a given location under the current climatic, geologic and
				hydrologic conditions. Either a natural channel that has been damaged or a
				channel that has been modified by human efforts can be restored.
(m) "Sponsor" means a local agency involved
				in planning, flood control or waterway management or an individual or citizens'
				group interested in floodplain management and stream restoration. which is
				acting as the principal party making the grant application and which will have
				primary responsibility for executing the contract, submitting the invoices and
				receiving reimbursements.
(n)
				"Stable" and "stabilize" refer to the state or process of bringing a channel to
				a condition of equilibrium in which the dimensions and gradient are
				appropriately matched to the watershed and the runoff of water and sediment,
				with the objective to have a self-maintaining system.
(o) "Stream clearance" refers to removal of
				garbage, junk and excessive vegetation to allow for more effective geomorphic
				functioning of the stream, so that there is neither excessive deposition or
				excessive erosion, while maintaining suitable vegetation and woody debris to
				provide aquatic and riparian habitat.
1. New section
				  filed 9-20-90; operative 10-10-90 (Register 90, No. 44).
2.
				  Amendment of section and NOTE filed 5-21-2001; operative 6-20-2001 (Register
				  2001, No. 21).
3. Amendment filed 12-28-2001; operative 1-27-2002
				  (Register 2001, No. 52).
Note: Authority cited: Section
					 7048, Water
					 Code. Reference: Sections
					 7048 and
					 79062, Water
					 Code.