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California Code, Fish and Game Code - FGC § 1025

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

<Section repealed Jan. 1, 2040.>

(a)(1)(A) The department shall submit a report to the Legislature on or before January 1, 2027, and each year thereafter, on illicit cannabis cultivation, including reconnaissance, eradication, reclamation, and restoration operations involving the department, and on the status of efforts to repair habitat degradation and other environmental damage in watersheds affected by cannabis cultivation on both public and private lands.

(B) As part of the report prepared pursuant to this subdivision, the department shall include all of the following:

(i) An assessment of the number of trespassing cannabis cultivation sites or complexes in order to identify illicit cultivation trends.

(ii) A summary of length of irrigation line and weight of nonhazardous waste, trash, and equipment removed, and number and type of stream structures removed within stream channel by grow site.

(iii) An assessment of opportunities to implement restoration measures to achieve effective watershed-scale restoration of watersheds affected by cannabis cultivation, and opportunities to supplement cannabis-related reclamation and restoration activities with restoration measures to achieve effective watershed-scale restoration, in a manner consistent with state and federal plans for the recovery of native species.

(iv) A list of restoration projects funded annually by the Cannabis Restoration Grant Program to achieve effective watershed-scale restoration of watersheds affected by cannabis cultivation.

(C) The metrics included in the report shall include, but are not limited to, how many reconnaissance, eradication, reclamation, and restoration operations occur on public lands and private lands and in total.

(2) The last report required to be submitted to the Legislature pursuant to paragraph (1) shall be the report due on or before January 1, 2036. The department shall make a report completed pursuant to this section available to interested parties upon request.

(b)(1) A report to be submitted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be submitted in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code.

(2) Pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code, this section is repealed on January 1, 2040.

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