Section 12670.8.

(a) The project for flood protection measures on the Upper Guadalupe River in Santa Clara County is adopted and authorized substantially in accordance with the recommendations of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers in a report dated August 19, 1998, or as that report may be subsequently modified, 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 department. The department may pay 50 percent of the nonfederal capital costs of the recreation and fish and wildlife enhancement features of the project.

(b) The Santa Clara Valley Water District shall give assurances satisfactory to the Secretary of the Army that local cooperation required by the final report of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army Corps of Engineers will be furnished by the district in connection with the project for flood control adopted and authorized in subdivision (a).

(c) The Santa Clara Valley Water District, in conjunction with the Department of the Army, shall carry out the plans and project and may make modifications and amendments to the plans as necessary to carry out the plans for the purposes of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 12570) and this chapter.

(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 1071, Sec. 11. Effective January 1, 2001.)