State California WC Sec 79450-79456 Staff (CALIFORNIA BAY-DELTA AUTHORITY -- CALIFORNIA BAY-DELTA AUTHORITY ACT) WATER CODE SECTION 79450-79456 79450. The Governor, in consultation with the Secretary of the Interior, shall appoint a director who shall serve at the pleasure of the authority. 79451. The director shall administer the affairs of the authority as directed by the authority and shall direct the staff of the authority. The annual salary of the director shall be as provided by Section 11552 of the Government Code. 79452. (a) The authority, with the advice of the director, shall appoint a lead scientist. The lead scientist shall report to the authority. The lead scientist, in cooperation with the implementing agencies, shall be responsible for the development of the science program element. (b) The lead scientist shall meet the following requirements: (1) Has undertaken substantial scientific research work in any field related to one or more of the program elements. (2) Has experience managing environmental issues or advising high-level managers in methods for promoting science-based decisionmaking in the areas of water management and ecosystem restoration. (3) Has a record of publication in peer reviewed scientific literature. (c) For all program elements, the lead scientist shall ensure scientific application of adaptive management, monitoring, and investigations to reduce uncertainties, and full investigation of the effects of each program element on other program elements. (d) The lead scientist shall ensure that peer review is employed extensively and prudently to ensure the quality of program planning, implementation, and evaluation. (e) The purpose of the science program element shall be to carry out all of the following functions: (1) Provide implementing agencies and the authority with authoritative and unbiased reviews of the state of scientific knowledge relevant to management and decisionmaking for the California Bay-Delta Program. (2) Implement programs and projects to articulate, test, refine, and improve the scientific understanding of all aspects of the bay-delta and its watershed areas. (3) Provide a comprehensive framework to integrate, monitor, and evaluate the use of adaptive management and the best available scientific understandings and practices for implementing the California Bay-Delta Program. (4) Independently review the technical and scientific performance of the California Bay-Delta Program, including, but not limited to, all of the following: (A) Conclusions. (B) Studies, monitoring, performance measures. (C) Data analyses. (D) Scientific practices that form the scientific bases for program decisionmaking. 79452.3. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the lead scientist of the California Bay-Delta Authority, as appointed pursuant to Section 79452 of the Water Code, may, in collaboration with the Director of Fish and Game, directly or indirectly enter into contracts with scientific experts for the purpose of conducting studies of delta fisheries. A contract entered into pursuant to this section shall terminate no later than January 1, 2008, and shall be exempt from Part 2 (commencing with Section 10100) of Division 2 of the Public Contract Code, Section 19130 of the Government Code, and any rules or regulations adopted pursuant to any of those provisions. (b) This section shall remain in effect only until January 1, 2008, and as of that date is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted on or before January 1, 2008, deletes or extends that date. 79453. The director may appoint and hire staff as necessary to administer the affairs of the authority at a salary and classification level commensurate with other state and federal agencies. 79453. (a) The director may appoint and hire staff as necessary to administer the affairs of the authority. (b) This section shall become operative only if this bill and Senate Bill 1653 of the 2001-02 Regular Session are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2003, and this bill is chaptered last, in which case this section shall prevail over Section 79453, as added by Senate Bill 1653. 79454. The director shall organize authority staff in a manner best suited to administer the affairs of the authority and oversee a complex multiagency program. 79455. (a) The director may fill authority staff positions with the state employees hired by the authority, federal employees assigned to the program by cooperating federal agencies, or with staff from other state public entities. (b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and only for the purposes of this division, the authority may hire members of federally recognized Indian tribes and nonprofit organizations in accordance with the interjurisdictional employee exchange program described in Section 427 of Title 2 of the California Code of Regulations. (c) The authority shall retain all state civil service positions when the position is filled temporarily by way of the interjurisdictional employee exchange program pursuant to subdivision (b), without regard to whether that state position was vacant. 79455. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and only for the purposes of this division, the authority may hire members of federally recognized Indian tribes and nonprofit organizations in accordance with the inter-jurisdictional employee exchange program described in Section 427 of Title 2 of the California Code of Regulations. (b) This section shall become operative only if this bill and Senate Bill 1653 of the 2001-02 Regular Session are both chaptered and become effective on or before January 1, 2003, and this bill is chaptered last, in which case this section shall prevail over Section 79455, as added by Senate Bill 1653. 79456. Notwithstanding Section 19818.10 of the Government Code, and in cooperation with the State Personnel Board, and the Department of Personnel Administration, the authority shall establish personnel classifications, including a new management level classification, specific to the authority's unique role in oversight and coordination.