California Code of Regulations › Title 23 - Waters › Division 2 - Department of Water Resources › Chapter 2.5.2 - Yuba Feather Flood Protection Program of the Safe Drinking Water, Clean Water, Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Act › Section 499.2 - Definitions

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
The words used in these regulations have the meanings set
				  forth as follows:
(a) "Applicant"
				means a local public entity which has legal authority and jurisdiction to
				implement flood control programs in the area of consideration and files an
				application for funding under the provisions of the Bond Law and these
				regulations.
(b) "Bond Law" means
				the Yuba Feather Flood Protection Program of the Safe Drinking Water, Clean
				Water, Watershed Protection, and Flood Protection Act, as set forth in Article
				8 of Chapter 5 of Division 26 of the Water Code (commencing with Section
				79068).
(c) "Department" means the California
				Department of Water Resources.
(d)
				"CEQA" means the California Environmental Quality Act.
(e) "CPM diagram" means a Critical Path
				Method diagram, which is a schedule that is derived by calculating the total
				duration of a project based on individual task durations and their
				interdependencies. A CPM diagram is usually depicted in a bar graph format,
				graphically showing the task durations and interdependencies.
(f) "Design" means all activities following a
				feasibility study leading to physical definition of the project in sufficient
				detail to facilitate project implementation.
(g) "Economic feasibility" is determined by
				calculating the ratio of economic benefits to economic costs for a given
				alternative. A project is "economically feasible" when this ratio is greater
				than or equal to one.
(h)
				"Feasibility study" means an investigation resulting in a report that provides
				the information for design and implementation of a project, and demonstrates
				whether the described approach is economically and technically feasible and
				appropriate for implementation.
(i)
				"Implementation" means those actions taken to put a designed project into
				effect, including both the construction of project works and carrying out a
				program for flood damage reduction that does not require
				construction.
(j) "Local public
				entity" means any political subdivision of the State of California, including,
				but not limited to, any county, city, city and county, district, joint powers
				agency, or council of governments within the area of consideration.
(k) "Recipient" means an applicant who has
				received grant funding through the feasibility study, design, or implementation
				funding application process.
(l)
				"Tributaries" means those watercourses that currently flow to the Yuba River,
				the Feather River or the Colusa Drain.
(m) "Unit", unless context indicates
				otherwise, means all or a designated portion of a flood protection project that
				constitutes either:
(1) "Design unit": the
				whole or a portion of a plan selected in a feasibility study, designated for
				design, or
(2) "Implementation
				unit": the whole or a portion of a design or aggregate of designs, designated
				for implementation.