Section 78671.

(a) There is hereby created in the account the Water Conservation and Groundwater Recharge Subaccount. The sum of thirty million dollars ($30,000,000) is hereby transferred from the account to the subaccount.

(b) Notwithstanding Section 13340 of the Government Code, the sum of twenty-five million dollars ($25,000,000) is hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the department, for loans to local agencies to aid in the acquisition and construction of voluntary, cost-effective capital outlay water conservation programs and groundwater recharge facilities.

(Added by Stats. 1996, Ch. 135, Sec. 1. Approved November 5, 1996, by adoption of Proposition 204.)