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 12/02/24 - Introduced

 AB-43 Wild and scenic rivers.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 10/08/2025 10:00 AM

AB43:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Assembly Bill

 No. 43

 CHAPTER 431

 An act to amend Section 5093.71 of the Public Resources Code, relating to wild and scenic rivers. 

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 October 07, 2025.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 October 07, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 43, Schultz.
 Wild and scenic rivers.

Existing law requires the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency to take specified actions relating to the addition of rivers or segments of rivers to the state’s wild and scenic rivers system if, among other things, the federal government enacts a statute that, upon enactment, would require the removal or delisting of any river or segment of a river in the state that was included in the national wild and scenic rivers system and not in the state wild and scenic rivers system. Existing law authorizes, only until December 31, 2025, the secretary to take action under these provisions to add a river or segment of a river to the state wild and scenic rivers system. Existing law requires those actions to remain in effect until December 31, 2025, except as otherwise provided.

This bill would indefinitely extend the date by which the secretary is
 authorized to take the specified actions relating to the addition of rivers or segments of rivers to the state’s wild and scenic rivers system, as described above. The bill would also indefinitely extend the date that these actions remain in effect, except as otherwise provided.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 5093.71 of the Public Resources Code is amended to read:

5093.71.

 (a) Notwithstanding Sections 5093.546 and 5093.547, if (1) the federal government enacts a statute that, upon enactment, would require the removal or delisting of any river or segment of a river in California that is included in the national wild and scenic rivers system and not in the state wild and scenic rivers system, or (2) the secretary determines that the federal government by enactment of a statute or by executive order has exempted a river or segment of a river in California that is included in the national wild and scenic rivers system and not in the state wild and scenic rivers system from the provisions of subdivision (a) of Section 1278 of Title 16 of the United States Code governing restrictions on water resources projects, as that section read on January 1, 2018, that protect rivers, segments of rivers, or values
 for which those rivers were established as part of the national system, the secretary shall take both of the following actions:

(1) Hold a public hearing to provide information and an opportunity for public comment on any proposed addition to the state wild and scenic rivers system resulting from federal action to remove, delist, or exempt that river or segment of a river from those protective provisions of the national wild and scenic rivers system.

(2) (A) Based on the information obtained through the public hearing, determine whether the provision of state protection for the river or segments of the river removed, delisted, or exempted from the national wild and scenic rivers system is in the best interest of the state and, if so, add the river or segment of the river that is removed, delisted, or exempted from those federal protective provisions to the
 state wild and scenic rivers system, and classify the river or segment of the river as wild, scenic, or recreational. A river added to the state wild and scenic rivers system under this paragraph shall be considered to be a component of the system as if designated pursuant to Section 5093.54 and classified pursuant to Section 5093.545.

(B) If the secretary makes a determination to add a river or segment of a river to the state wild and scenic rivers system under this paragraph, the secretary shall take all actions necessary to ensure the addition of the river or segment of the river to the state wild and scenic rivers system, and to classify the river or segment of the river to be added as wild, scenic, or recreation