Section 8790.

(a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) It is to the advantage of the people of the State of California that the particle accelerator known as the Superconducting Super Collider, which the United States Department of Energy is planning to build, be built in California.

(2) The construction of the Superconducting Super Collider in California is in the public interest and serves a public purpose and will promote the health, welfare, and safety of the citizens of California.

(3) The Superconducting Super Collider will be a major intellectual and economic asset to California, will provide jobs throughout California, and will be a source of ideas and inventions that ultimately will aid California industry in expanding and being competitive in world markets.

(4) The Superconducting Super Collider will assist in furthering research being conducted by universities located throughout California and will assure that universities in California continue to be at the forefront of research and attract the most able members of the world's engineers, computer scientists, and physicists.

(b) It is the intent of the Legislature to create a commission to represent the state before the Department of Energy and to take any reasonable and appropriate action needed to support a proposal to build the Superconducting Super Collider in the state.

(Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 432, Sec. 4. Effective September 3, 1987.)