(a) The department may grant funds to any public agency for the construction or procurement of vessel pumpout or dump stations and ancillary items.
(b) The department shall establish general policies for determining appropriate bodies of water and locations thereon for placing vessel pumpout or dump stations. The department may adopt rules and regulations that it finds necessary to carry out this section.
(c) The Legislature finds and declares that the purpose of this section is to furnish vessel pumpout or dump station facilities on bodies of water where needed to meet the needs of boaters and where the presence of the vessel pumpout or dump stations may lessen environmental degradation of those bodies of water.
(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1233, Sec. 8. Effective September 30, 1994.)