(a) There is hereby created in the State Treasury the Safe Drinking Water State Revolving Fund for the purpose of implementing this chapter, and, notwithstanding § 13340 of the Government Code, moneys in the fund are hereby continuously appropriated, without regard to fiscal years, to the board for expenditure in accordance with this chapter.

(b) Notwithstanding § 10231.5 of the Government Code, the board shall, at least once every two years, post information on its Internet Web site and send a link of the Internet Web site to the policy and budget committees of the Legislature regarding the implementation of this chapter and expenditures from the fund. The information posted on the board’s Internet Web site shall describe the numbers and types of projects funded, the reduction in risks to public health from contaminants in drinking water provided through the funding of the projects, and the criteria used by the board to determine funding priorities. The Internet Web site posting shall include the results of the United States Environmental Protection Agency’s most recent survey of the infrastructure needs of California’s public water systems, the amount of money available through the fund to finance those needs, the total dollar amount of all funding agreements executed pursuant to this chapter since the date of the previous report or Internet Web site post, the fund utilization rate, the amount of unliquidated obligations, and the total dollar amount paid to funding recipients since the previous report or Internet Web site post.

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(c) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2014.

(Repealed (in Sec. 69) and added by Stats. 2014, Ch. 35, Sec. 70. (SB 861) Effective June 20, 2014. Section operative July 1, 2014, by its own provisions.)