(a) Pursuant to Section 5922, for the purpose of expending funds appropriated to the department in Item 3790-101-0786 of the Budget Act of 2014, and reappropriated in Item 3790-490 of the Budget Act of 2017, funds shall be available to the County of San Diego for the development, improvement, rehabilitation, protection, and restoration of natural and park lands in the Tijuana River Valley, for the studies described in subdivision (b), and for the development of a campground planned for the Tijuana River Valley, as described in the “Tijuana River Valley Regional Park Public Use Feasibility Study.”
(b) Up to five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000) of the moneys appropriated to the department and available to the County of San Diego, described in subdivision (a), shall be used to update or conduct, as the case may be, the following studies:
(1) An update to the Tijuana River Valley Recovery Team’s “Recovery Strategy: Living with the Water,” January 2012 to include issues related to wastewater and runoff.
(2) A study focused on the improvement and protection of natural lands, including the main river channel, in the Tijuana River Valley.
(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 542, Sec. 1. (SB 507) Effective October 6, 2017.)