Section 7107.  


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  • For purposes of this chapter:

    (a) "Department" means the Department of Housing and Community Development.

    (b) "Base" means a federal military installation or subinstallation as defined by regulations of the Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, and other defense activities.

    (c) "Critically needed hazardous waste facilities" means a facility that will provide necessary offsite treatment capacity for which there is a substantial shortfall or lack of capacity. This shortfall shall be as identified in any of the following documents:

    (1) The State Hazardous Waste Management Plan.

    (2) The State's Capacity Assurance Plan required by federal law.

    (3) Other reports of the Department of Toxic Substances Control.

    (d) "Downsizing" means a significant reduction in federal funding, personnel, and equipment on a base.

    (e) "Economic development plan" includes, but is not limited to, a marketing plan, a job development plan, and an analysis of infrastructure.

    (f) "Eligible area" means a geographic area meeting the criteria described in Section 7111.

    (g) "Governing body" means a city, county, city and county, joint powers agency, council, or board, as appropriate.

    (h) "Local agency military base recovery area" (LAMBRA) means any military base or former military base or portion thereof which is designated in accordance with the provisions of Section 7114.

    (i) "Region One" includes the following counties: Del Norte, Siskiyou, Modoc, Humboldt, Trinity, Shasta, Lassen, Mendocino, Tehama, Glenn, Butte, Plumas, Marin, Napa, Sonoma, Lake, Colusa, Sutter, Yuba, Nevada, Sierra, Placer, Yolo, Solano, Sacramento, El Dorado, and Amador.

    (j) "Region Two" includes the following counties: Contra Costa, San Francisco, Santa Cruz, Santa Clara, Alameda, and San Mateo.

    (k) "Region Three" includes the following counties: Monterey, San Benito, San Joaquin, Merced, Fresno, Stanislaus, Kings, Madera, Mariposa, Tuolumne, Calaveras, Alpine, Mono, Inyo, and Tulare.

    (l) "Region Four" includes the following counties: San Diego, San Bernardino, Riverside, and Imperial.

    (m) "Region Five" includes the following counties: Los Angeles, Orange, Ventura, Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Kern.

    (n) "Reuse plan" includes, but is not limited to, an evaluation of community goals for the future as they relate to potential use of the former military facilities and land areas, market studies or surveys to evaluate the regional economic setting, trends, and pressures affecting base reuse, surveys or inventories of on-base facilities to determine their condition, quality and reuse potential and liability, development of reuse alternatives responding to market conditions, community goals, and reuse of potential of existing assets, review of alternative strategies with the community at large and consensus building of a preferred development strategy.

(Amended by Stats. 2006, Ch. 634, Sec. 4. Effective January 1, 2007. Repealed as of January 1, 2014, pursuant to Section 7119.)