Glossary and Web Links: Lower Ballona Watershed Agencies & Acronyms

BOS

Board of Supervisors Los Angeles County http://bos.co.la.ca.us/

CCC

California Coastal Commission http://www.coastal.ca.gov/lcps.html

CDFW

California Department of Fish and Wildlife http://www.wildlife.ca.gov/

CalEPA

California Environmental Protection Agency http://www.calepa.ca.gov/

DBH

Department of Beaches and Harbors Los Angeles County http://beaches.lacounty.gov/wps/portal/dbh

DPW

Department of Public Works Los Angeles County http://dpw.lacounty.gov/contact/

FWS

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service/National Wildlife Refuge System/Habitat http://www.fws.gov/refuges/whm/habitat.html

LARWQCB

Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board

CDP

Coastal Development Permit Entitlement legal granting of a Coastal Development Permit (CDP)

EIR

Environmental Impact Report A project's environmental effects, ways to significant environmental effects, and reasonable alternatives to the project. http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=what+is+an+environmental+impact+report

EIS

Environmental Impact Statement describes the effects of proposed activities on the environment. http://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q=environmental+impact+statement

EPA

United States Environmental Protection Agency

ESHA

Environmentally Sensitive Habitat Area means any area in which plant or animal life or their habitats are either rare or especially valuable because of their special nature or role in an ecosystem and which could be easily disturbed or degraded by human activities and development.

FOIA

The Freedom of Information Act is a law that gives you the right to access information from the federal government. http://www.thefirstamendment.org/publicrecordsact.pdf

IBR

Important Biological Resources Important biological resources are not “Environmentally sensitive areas” with the meaning of California Public Resources Code Section 30107.5 or 30240.

LUP

Land Use Plan means the relevant portion of a local government’s general plan, or local coastal element, which are sufficiently detailed to indicate the kinds, location and intensity of land uses, the applicable resource protection and development policies and, where necessary, a listing of implementing actions.

LCP

Local Coastal Program means a local government’s (a) Land Use Plan (LUP), (b) zoning ordinances, (c) zoning district maps and (d) within sensitive coastal resource areas, other implementing actions which, when taken together, meet the requirements of, and implement the provisions and policies of the Coastal Act. Items (b), (c) & (d) are collectively referred to as the Local Implementation Program (LIP).

Mole

a structure or fill set up in the water such as for a breakwater, pier or man-­‐made peninsula. A mole is not a portion of land adjacent to the water, and connected to other land, whether raised by dredge spoil or otherwise, which does not form a peninsula.

NOAA

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration guides protection of ocean and coastal resources

PRA

California Public Records Act Californians have a right under the, the California Constitution, and the Governor's Executive Order S-­‐03-­‐06, to access public information maintained by government agencies. http://www.dgs.ca.gov/dgs/Newsroom/PRA.aspx

SMBRC

Santa Monica Bay Restoration Commission http://www.smbrc.ca.gov/about_us/board.shtml

Wetland

Lands within the coastal zone which may be covered periodically or permanently with shallow water and include saltwater marshes, freshwater marshes, open or closed brackish water marshes, swamps, mudflats, and fens.

MARINA DEL REY, CA – was created with combined efforts of Los Angeles County, Los Angeles City and 83rd U.S. Congress Public Law 389 in 1954 Initial authorization under Rivers and Harbors Act was requested by the Committee on Commerce on June 2, 1936 and adopted by the U.S. Senate August 26, 1937. Document 389 contains various reports and comments from the U.S. Bureau of the Budget; the Chief of Engineering, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), the U.S. Department of the Interior; California State Water Resources Control Board, State Highway engineer, State Lands Commission, Department of Fish and Game; Division of Beaches and Parks of the Department of Natural Resources and the State Engineer. This report was originally submitted April 7, 1952.

83rd U.S. Congress Public Law 780 in 1954 authorized the creation of Marina del Rey under the RIVERS AND HARBORS ACT OF 1954 under the direction of the Secretary of the Army and Supervision of the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers. It was signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.

NOTE: U.S. PUBLIC LAW 780 REQUIRES REASONABLE RATES WITH EQUAL ACCESS FOR ALL.