Report 2018-119 Recommendation 8 Responses

Report 2018-119: California Department of Fish and Wildlife: It Is Not Fulfilling Its Responsibilities Under the California Environmental Quality Act (Release Date: June 2019)

Recommendation #8 To: Fish and Wildlife, Department of

To determine the costs for its CEQA review and set appropriate fees, the department should complete its five-year review of program costs and revenues and report the results to the Legislature by March 2020. To provide the Legislature with a more accurate estimate of the costs of CEQA activities, the department should prepare an update to this review no more than two years after it has modified its time-tracking procedures.

1-Year Agency Response

The Department submitted a 2012-2018 CEQA Fiscal Analysis Report to the Joint Legislative Audit Committee on April 17, 2020 and to the Legislature on June 29, 2020.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 1-Year Status: Fully Implemented

The Department has issued a memo to clarify that it has assigned the responsibility to conduct a CEQA program review and fiscal analysis to update the Legislative report by December 2021 to its Habitat Conservation Planning Branch.

6-Month Agency Response

The Department has begun conducting an evaluation of program costs and revenues.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 6-Month Status: Pending

60-Day Agency Response

The Department has begun conducting an evaluation of program costs and revenues.

California State Auditor's Assessment of 60-Day Status: Pending

All Recommendations in 2018-119

Agency responses received are posted verbatim.