Total budget-balancing reductions for the Higher Education segments amount to $1.1 billion in 2008-09. Of this amount, $649.4 million is for General Fund programs. Funding for the following programs has been maintained:

Science Math Initiative: $3.3 million. Funding will continue to the CSU and UC to address the shortage of high-quality math and science teachers in public schools. The project is intended to double the number of math and science teacher produced by CSU and UC by 2010.

Total budget-balancing reductions for CalEPA amount to $8.3 million and reductions for the Resource Agency amount to $89.3 million in 2008-09. These reductions include the following:

$4.3 million in 2008-09 for the State Water Resources Control Board. These reductions will result in delays to the Board's capacity to issue permits for pollutant discharge elimination systems that regulate the discharge of wastewater to surface waters in the state.

$0.1 million in 2007-08 and $1 million in 2008-09 for the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA). This adjustment will reduce funding available for scientific evaluations of the effects of fuels on human health and the state's environment and will reduce the number of air toxic contaminant evaluations that OEHHA can perform annually.

$1.4 million in 2007-08 and $3.6 million in 2008-09 for the Department of Fish and Game's (Fish and Game's) Biodiversity Conservation Program. This reduction will reduce funding for habitat restoration projects and the review of timber harvest plans.

$5.4 million for the Department of Water Resources' (DWR) Flood Management Program. This reduction will be partially offset because Proposition 1E and Proposition 84 funds are available for erosion repair, sediment removal, and Delta levee projects.

Funding is proposed, however, at maintained or increased levels for the following:

California Education and the Environment Initiative. The budget includes $1,167,000 one-time for 2008-09 and $917,000 one-time for 2009-10 from the California Beverage Container Recycling Fund to implement the California Education and the Environment Initiative. The California Integrated Waste Management Board will assist in the development of the K-12 classroom curriculum for core subjects incorporating environmental principles and concepts, and will educate students in how their personal consumption and recycling choices affect the environment.

Green Chemistry and Pollution Prevention. The budget includes $772,000 to expand the existing Pollution Prevention program in the area of green chemistry. These resources will focus on product design and industrial innovation that reduces the use of harmful chemicals in products and generates fewer emissions and less waste.

Water Quality and Water Rights Investigation and Enforcement. $790,000 is budgeted for the Waste Discharge Permit Fund, $524,000 Water Rights Fund to fund investigators and enforcement personnel for the State Water Resources Control Board. The program enhancements will improve the Water Boards' ability to enforce state laws.

Transportation Research Initiative. Funding would increase by $5 million to augment UC's multi-campus Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS), for a total of almost $6 million. This increase will fund ITS' development of integrated land use and transportation models that can measure the impact of actions by local governments on greenhouse gas emissions.