Financial Assistance Programs - Grants and Loans

PROPOSITION 40

To protect rivers, lakes, and streams to improve water quality and ensure clean drinking water; to protect beaches and coastal areas threatened by pollution; to improve air quality; to preserve open space and farmland threatened by unplanned development; to protect wildlife habitat; to restore historical and cultural resources; to repair and improve the safety of state and neighborhood parks; the state shall issue bonds totaling two billion six hundred million dollars ($2,600,000,000) paid from existing funds. This program is subject to an annual independent audit. Fiscal Impact: State cost of about $4.3 billion over 25 years (average cost of about $172 million per year) to repay bonds. State and local operation and maintenance costs of potentially tens of millions of dollars annually.

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The Division of Financial Assistance will adminster the following Proposition 40 funded programs:
Proposition 40 & 50 Funding Timelines

• Clean Beaches
• Small Community Wastewater Grants
• Urban Storm Water Grants
• Nonpoint Source Pollution Control
• Agricultural Water Quality Grants
• Small Community Groundwater Grants
• Integrated Watershed Management
• Groundwater Monitoring

( updated 8/5/05 )