(a) The project for flood control on the Tule River, Success Reservoir Enlargement Project, is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers, in the report “Tule River Basin Investigation, California, Feasibility Report,” dated April 1999, at an estimated cost to the state of the sum that may be appropriated by the Legislature for state cooperation, upon the recommendation and advice of the Reclamation Board.
(b) The agencies that are parties to the Tule River Improvement Joint Powers Agreement may, in lieu of the Reclamation Board, give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that the nonfederal cooperation required by federal law will be furnished in connection with the project for flood control adopted and authorized in subdivision (a).
(c) The agencies that are parties to the Tule River Improvement Joint Powers Agreement, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, may, in lieu of the Reclamation Board, carry out the design and construction of the Success Reservoir Enlargement Project and may make modifications and amendments as necessary to carry out the project for the purposes of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 12570) and this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1071, Sec. 9. Effective January 1, 2001.)