(a) (1) The agency shall convene the Morro Bay Management Plan Task Force to develop the plan. The Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board shall be utilized to carry out necessary administrative functions, including selecting a temporary chairperson of the task force, until such time as the task force establishes its own organization, leadership, and procedures. The task force shall meet at least four times each calendar year. The task force shall submit the plan to the San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors and to the Morro Bay City Council for approval. Following that approval, the task force shall, on or before July 1, 1997, submit the plan to the Legislature.

(2) On and after July 1, 1997, the task force shall, on an ongoing basis, make recommendations to the agency regarding the need for any revisions in the plan.

(3) The task force shall terminate as of June 30, 2007.

(b) The agency shall encourage all local, state, and federal agencies with jurisdiction over parts of, or activities within, the bay and its watershed to participate in the task force. The agency shall also encourage the participation of all interested business and agricultural groups, commercial organizations, environmental groups, and any other interested groups or individuals.

(1) Participating agencies may include, but are not limited to, the agency, the National Guard, the Department of Parks and Recreation, the Department of Fish and Game, the Department of Corrections, the State Department of Health Services, the California Coastal Commission, the State Water Resources Control Board, the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board, the Coastal San Luis Resource Conservation District, the State Coastal Conservancy, the California Conservation Corps, California Polytechnic State University San Luis Obispo, the University of California Agricultural Extension, the County of San Luis Obispo, and the City of Morro Bay.

(2) Other participants may include, but are not limited to, the Pacific Gas and Electric Company, agricultural groups, commercial fishing, mariculture, and fish processing groups, local chambers of commerce, and members of the tourist industry.

(3) The costs incurred by each voluntary participant in the task force shall be limited to the costs of its own participation at the meetings called by the chairperson of the task force.

(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 52, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1995.)