California's Natural Resource
Programs: Where Does the Money Come From
and Where Does It Go?
Notes on the Natural Resource Budget
Data
These notes are
designed to aid in navigating all
twenty-three years of natural resource
budget data. All data represented in the
report are presented in their original
form as presented in the Governor's
annual budget document. The amounts
listed are taken from the "prior
year actual" column. For example,
data for the last year (2000-01) are the
prior year actual listed in the
Governor's 2002-03 budget document. In
some cases, the data contained in this
file were not used in the published
report. Such data as the $7.3 billion
for energy resource scheduling
expenditures in the 2001 Department of
Water Resources budget were excluded
from figures in the report but are
included in this file.
All of the raw
data needed to create the figures for
the report can be found in the following
three sheets:
- Program: The program sheet
has the program level data.
- Codes: The codes sheet has
resource conservation (RC), resource
development (RD), and public safety
(PS) codes
- Operations: The operations
sheet has the operations level data
including state operations, local
assistance, and capital outlay.
The budget and
program codes are the same as those used
in the Governor's Budget. They are used
to organize expenditure totals per
department and are defined as follows:
- bcode: Each department has
its own budget code. In early years,
these were not always used, so this
is an incomplete identifier
- department: The department
name
- pcode: The program code is
typically used to identify a
specific program in the budget, of
which several generic codes are
used, including:
|
a. |
599: |
Administration |
|
b. |
699: |
Total Budget
Programs |
|
c. |
799: |
Net Totals,
Budget Programs (without
Reimbursements) |
|
d. |
899: |
Capital Outlay |
|
e. |
999: |
Total
Expenditures |
- level (program page): These
abbreviations refer to the
categories of expenditures in the
program page. These were created for
use only in the PPIC report and are
not found in the budget. They are as
follows:
|
a. |
P |
Program |
|
b. |
A |
Administration |
|
c. |
C |
Capital Outlay |
|
d. |
TP |
Total Programs |
|
e. |
TN |
Net Totals
(without reimbursements) |
|
f. |
TE |
Total
Expenditures |
- level (operations page):
These abbreviations refer to the
categories of expenditures in the
operations page. As with the above
abbreviations, these were created
for use only in the PPIC report and
are not found in the budget. They
are as follows:
|
a. |
O |
State
Operations (wages, etc) |
|
b. |
TO |
Total
Operations (same as TP for
programs budgets) |
|
c. |
L |
Local
Assistance |
|
d. |
TOL |
Total Local
Assistance and State
Operations combined |
|
e. |
TN |
Net Totals
(same as TN for programs
budgets) |
|
f. |
C |
Capital Outlay
(same as TN for programs
budgets) |
|
g. |
TE |
Total
Expenditures (same as TN for
programs budgets) |
Each row is a
budget program line or a budget
operations line. Not all program or
operations departments existed during
the full 23-year sample. In addition,
brief notes are included to explain
other irregularities among departments.
The categories located at the top of
each column delineate five different
expenditure funds, subtotals, and
personnel years (representing authorized
positions for each department) per year
and are labeled as:
|
1. |
Gen |
General
fund expenditures |
|
2. |
Oth |
Special fund and
non-governmental cost fund
expenditures |
|
3. |
Bon |
Bond fund
expenditures |
|
4. |
Fed |
Federal trust fund
expenditures |
|
5. |
Rei |
Reimbursements |
|
6. |
Sub |
Subtotal of
expenditures |
|
7. |
PYs |
Personnel years |
Data Issues
- California Tahoe Regional
Planning Agency: From 1979-1982,
there was no budget specificity.
Because the programs for this
program are all Resource
Conservation, all programs were
combined into one overall agency
program.
- 1991: In 1991, the budget
provided no program detail. When
analyzing the data with both source
variables (general, special,
federal, etc.) and activity
(resource conservation, development,
etc), it will be impossible to use
the 1991 data.
- Department of Boating and
Waterways: No program data are
available from 1991-1997. Because
all activities were coded as
Resource Development, all programs
were combined into a single line.
- Fire and Forestry: The
transfer program is for fire
suppression on federal lands. The
fire protection program (PS) was
altered to include these changes at
the program level. This change only
affects where funds come from, not
overall totals.
- Environmental Protection
Program: Includes a non-added
row for money that is distributed
for other departments. This was
removed so as not to confuse totals
of RC programs.
- Parks and Recreation: For
fiscal years 1996-97 and 1997-98,
there were no specific numbers for
administrative PYs. For these two
years only, it was assumed that the
PYs made up roughly 7 percent of
total PYs. Over the entire period,
(1978-1998) roughly 7 percent of all
PYs were administrative. Similarly,
there were no data for the
administrative budget line. Here it
was assumed that roughly 10 percent
of the budget was administrative, as
this was the average in the early
1990s. (This makes very little
difference in the actual results.)
- Department of Water Resources:
This is the only department to
include capital outlay expenses in
the program lines, but only for some
years. All capital outlay expenses
were removed from the
"Implementation of Water
Resources Development System"
program. For the budgets, all but a
tiny portion of capital outlay funds
is spent through this program (over
99.99 percent). A more specific
removal of these funds is possible
by using all the budgets (at least
for the subtotal line) but did not
make sense at the time.
- For a minority of programs in
several years, the administrative
PYs were distributed in the actual
budget lines. In general
administration, PYs were treated
separately, so these PYs were
'de-distributed' from the program
lines to conform with the majority
of programs. Note: this does not
affect the total PYs in any way. PYs
in relationship to the share of
total PYs used by a given program
were removed. The list of these
situations follows:
- State Lands Commission:
1991
- Coastal Commission:
1978-1982
- Fish and Game: 1991
- Parks and Recreation:
All years