110 STAT. 4242 PUBLIC LAW 104-333—NOV. 12, 1996 California Senate Bill 900, Chapter 135, Statutes of 1996, signed by the Governor of California on July 11, 1996. Funds appropriated pursuant to this section shall remain available until expended and shall be administered in accordance with procedures established by CALFED Bay-Delta Program until Congress authorizes another entity that is recommended by CALFED Bay-Delta Program to carry out this section. (b) TREATMENT OF FUNDS. —Funds authorized to be appropriated pursuant to this section to those agencies that are currently or subsequently become participants in the CALFED Bay-Delta Program shall be in addition to the baseline funding levels established pursuant to subsection (e), for currently authorized projects and programs under the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (title X5DQV of Public Law 102-575) and other currently authorized Federal programs for the purpose of Bay-Delta ecosystem protection and restoration. (c) LONG-TERM SOLUTION.—Nothing in this section shall be deemed to diminish the Federal interest in and responsibility for working with the State of California through the CALFED Bay-Delta Program in developing, funding, and implementing a balanced, long-term solution to the problems of ecosystem quality, water quality, water supply and reliability, and system vulnerability Eiffecting the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Watershed in California. Participation in such long-term solution shall only be undertaken pursuant to authorization provided by law other than this section, and shall be based on the equitable allocation of program costs among beneficiary groups that the CALFED Bay-Delta programs shall develop. (d) ACTIVITIES. — To the extent not otherwise authorized, those agencies and departments that are currently or subsequently become participants in the CALFED Bay-Delta Program are hereby authorized to undertsike the activities and programs for which Federal cost sharing is provided by this section. The United States shall immediately initiate coordinated consultations and negotiations with the State of California to expeditiously execute the cost-sharing agreement required by section 78684.10 of California Senate Bill 900, Chapter 135, Statutes of 1996, signed by the Governor of Cgilifornia on July 11, 1996. Such activities shall include, but not be limited to, planning, design, technical assistance, and construction for ecosystem restoration programs and projects. (e) BUDGET CROSSCUT. —The Office of Management and Budget is directed to submit to the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations, as part of the President's Fiscal Year 1998 Budget, an interagency budget crosscut that displays Federal spending for fiscal years 1993 through 1998 on ecosystem restoration and other purposes in the Bay-Delta region, separately showing funding provided previously or requested under both pre-existing authorities and new authorities granted by this section. (f) EFFECTIVE DATE. —Subsections (a) through (d) of this section shall take effect on the date of passage of California State Proposition 204.
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