Proposition Summary

ENVIRONMENT. PUBLIC HEALTH. BONDS. INITIATIVE STATUTE. • Requires regulation of pesticide use to protect food and agricultural worker safety. • Phases out use on food of pesticides known to cause cancer or reproductive harm, chemicals that potentially deplete ozone layer. • Requires reduced emissions of gases contributing to global warming. Limits oil, gas extraction within bay, estuarine and ocean waters. Requires oil spill prevention, contingency plans. • Creates prevention, response fund from fees on oil deliveries. • Establishes water quality criteria, monitoring plans. Creates elective office of Environmental Advocate. • Appropriates $40,000,000 for environmental research. • Authorizes $300,000,000 general obligation bonds for ancient redwoods acquisition, forestry projects. Summary of Legislative Analyst's Estimate of Net State and Local Government Fiscal Impact: • Annual state administrative and program costs of approximately $90 million, decreasing in future years; partially offset by $10 million increased annual fee revenue. • Local governments would incur $8 million one-time cost: $5 million to $10 million annually, decreasing in future years. • State General Fund to incur one-time $750,000 appropriation in 1992-93 for Office of Environmental Advocate, future office administrative costs unknown; $40 million for environmental research grants. • If all bonds authorized for ancient redwood acquisition, forestry projects were sold at 7.5 percent interest and paid over the typical 20-year period. General Fund would incur approximately $535 million in costs to payoff principal ($300 million) and interest ($235 million). • Estimated average annual costs of bond principal and interest would be $22 million. • Per-barrel fee on oil would increase revenues by $500 million by 1996-97, used to pay oil spill prevention/clean-up costs. Indefinite deferral of potentially $2 billion in future state oil and gas revenues resulting from limits on oil and gas leases in marine waters. • Indirect fiscal impact could increase or decrease state and local government program costs and revenues from general and special taxes in an unknown amount. The overall impact is unknown.

Proposition Number

128

Year

1990

Document Type

Proposition

Pass/Fail

Fail

Popular Vote Results

Y: 2636663; A: 35.65; N: 4760022; B: 64.35

Election Type

General Election

Proposition Type

Initiative statute

For Author

Dr. Jay Hair, President, National Wildlife Federation; Lucy Blake, Executive Director, California League of Conservation Voters; Dr. Herb Needleman, M.D., Member, American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Environmental Hazards

Against Author

Barbara Keating-Edh, President, Consumer Alert; Al Stehly, Family Farmer; Larry McCarthy, President, California Taxpayers' Association

Rebuttal Author

Wallace I. Sampson, M.D., Stanford University School of Medicine; Dr. Judith S. Stern, Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of California, Davis; Stephan S. Sternberg, M.D., Sloan-Kettering Institute for Cancer Research

Rebuttal Against Author

Dr. Herb Needleman, M.D., Member, American Academy of Pediatrics, Committee on Environmental Hazards; Dr. Jay Hair, President, National Wildlife Federation; Michael Paparian, State Director, Sierra Club California

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