Financial Assistance Programs – Grants and Loans

PROPOSITION 50

Water Quality, Supply and Safe Drinking Water Projects. Coastal Wetlands Purchase and Protection. Bonds. Initiative Statute.

• Authorizes $3,440,000,000 general obligation bonds to fund a variety of water projects, including:
  • Specified CALFED Bay-Delta Program projects including urban and agricultural water use efficiency projects;
  • Grants and loans to reduce Colorado River water use;
  • Purchasing, protecting and restoring coastal wetlands near urban areas;
  • Competitive grants for water management and quality improvement projects;
  • Development of river parkways;
  • Improved security for state, local and regional water systems;
  • Grants for desalination and drinking water disinfection.
• Appropriates money from state General Fund to pay off bonds.

Click here for more the full text of Proposition 50. Assembly bills AB1747, SB278, and SB1049 clarify some of the Proposition 50 requirements. The individual chapters for Proposition 50 are below.

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

• Agricultural Water Quality Grant Program
• CALFED Drinking Water Quality
• CALFED Watershed
• California Ocean Data Observing System
• Clean Beaches Initiative
• Coastal Nonpoint Source Pollution Control
• Dairy Water Quality Improvement Grant Program
• Groundwater Monitoring Grants
• Integrated Regional Water Management
• Nonpoint Source Pollution Control
• Santa Monica Bay Restroration
• Small Community Wastewater Grants
• Water Recycling Construction Program

(Updated 5/24/11)