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ACCESSION NUMBER:		0001083839-10-000183
CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE:	NSAR-A
PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT:		5
CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT:	20100831
FILED AS OF DATE:		20101102
DATE AS OF CHANGE:		20101101
EFFECTIVENESS DATE:		20101102

FILER:

	COMPANY DATA:	
		COMPANY CONFORMED NAME:			NUVEEN INSURED CALIFORNIA TAX FREE ADVANTAGE MUNICIPAL FUND
		CENTRAL INDEX KEY:			0001195738
		IRS NUMBER:				030487017
		STATE OF INCORPORATION:			MA
		FISCAL YEAR END:			0831

	FILING VALUES:
		FORM TYPE:		NSAR-A
		SEC ACT:		1940 Act
		SEC FILE NUMBER:	811-21212
		FILM NUMBER:		101155905

	BUSINESS ADDRESS:	
		STREET 1:		333 WEST WACKER DRIVE
		CITY:			CHICAGO
		STATE:			IL
		ZIP:			60606
		BUSINESS PHONE:		3129178146
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SIGNATURE   STEPHEN D. FOY
TITLE       VICE PRESIDENT

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Form N-SAR, Sub-Item 77E
Legal Proceedings



Nuveen Insured California Tax-Free Advantage Municipal Fund
333-100323
811-21212


During 2010, 33 Nuveen leveraged closed-end funds,
including the Nuveen Insured California Tax-Free
Advantage Municipal Fund (symbol  NKX ) (hereafter,
the  Registrant ), received a demand letter from a law
firm on behalf of purported holders of common shares of
each such fund, alleging that Nuveen Asset Management,
the funds investment adviser, and the funds officers and
Board of Directors/Trustees breached their fiduciary
duties related to the redemption at par of the funds
auction rate preferred securities (ARPS). In response, the
Board established an ad hoc Demand Committee
consisting of certain of its disinterested and independent
Board members to investigate the claims. The Demand
Committee retained independent counsel to assist it in
conducting an extensive investigation. Based upon its
investigation, the Demand Committee found that it was
not in the best interests of each fund or its shareholders to
take the actions suggested in the demand letters, and
recommended that the full Board reject the demands
made in the demand letters. After reviewing the findings
and recommendation of the Demand Committee, the full
Board of each fund unanimously adopted the Demand
Committees recommendation.  Subsequently, the
Registrant was named as a nominal defendant in a
purported shareholder derivative complaint filed in the
Circuit Court of Cook County, Illinois on July 27, 2010.
The case is captioned  Safier et al. v. Nuveen Asset
Management et al., No. 10 CH 32166. The plaintiffs are
common shareholders of one or more of 20 Nuveen
funds, including the Registrant. The defendants in these
cases are Nuveen Asset Management, individual current
or former officers and an officer/director of the Nuveen
funds, Nuveen Investments, Inc. and its parent entity.
The complaint alleges that Nuveen Asset Management
and the individual defendants breached their fiduciary
duties to the common shareholders and to the funds when
they caused the funds to redeem ARPS and that such
conduct constituted corporate waste.  The plaintiffs
further allege that Nuveen Investments, Inc. and its parent
entity aided and abetted the breaches of fiduciary duty.
The complaint seeks a declaration that the defendants
have breached their fiduciary duties, an order directing
the defendants not to redeem any ARPS at their
liquidation value using fund assets, indeterminate
monetary damages in favor of the funds and an award of
plaintiffs costs and disbursements in pursuing the action.
Two related lawsuits have been subsequently filed by the
same law firm relating to additional Nuveen funds and
raising the same allegations. These cases do not involve
the Registrant.

The defendants believe the complaints are without merit
and intend to vigorously defend against the charges.
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Form N-SAR,
Sub-Item 77I
Terms of new or amended securities



Nuveen Insured California Tax-Free Advantage Municipal Fund
333-100323
811-21212


The preferred class of the registrants securities have been
materially modified, as stated in the
Amendment to the Statement Establishing and Fixing the
 Rights and Preferences of
Variable Rate Demand Preferred Shares, containing a description
of the Funds preferred securities.  A copy of such Statement is attached
in this Funds N-SAR-A filing under Sub-Item 77Q1(a).


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Form N-SAR,
Sub-Item 77Q1(a)
Copies of any material amendments
to the registrants charter



Nuveen Insured California Tax-Free Advantage Municipal Fund
333-100323
811-21212



Attached please find as an exhibit under
Sub-Item 77Q1(a) of Form N-SAR a copy of the Amendment to the
Statement Establishing and Fixing the Rights and Preferences of
Variable Rate Demand Preferred Shares, considered an amendment
to the Articles of Incorporation, containing a description of the Funds
preferred securities.


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NUVEEN INSURED CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE ADVANTAGE MUNICIPAL FUND


AMENDMENT TO
STATEMENT ESTABLISHING AND FIXING
THE RIGHTS AND PREFERENCES OF
VARIABLE RATE DEMAND PREFERRED SHARES ( VRDP )
AND DESIGNATING SERIES 1 VRDP, EXECUTED AS OF AUGUST 5, 2008
NUVEEN INSURED CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE ADVANTAGE MUNICIPAL FUND

AMENDMENT TO
STATEMENT ESTABLISHING AND FIXING
THE RIGHTS AND PREFERENCES OF
VARIABLE RATE DEMAND PREFERRED SHARES ( VRDP )
	AND DESIGNATING SERIES 1 VRDP, EXECUTED AS OF AUGUST 5, 2008
(the  Original Statement )
       NUVEEN INSURED CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE ADVANTAGE MUNICIPAL FUND, a
       Massachusetts business trust (the  Fund ), hereby certifies
       that pursuant to authority expressly vested in the
       Board of Trustees of the Fund by Part I, Section 13(a)(1) of
       the Original Statement, and as permitted by
       Part I, Section 5(c)(i) of the Original Statement, the Board of
       Trustees has, by resolution, authorized the
       amendment to the Original Statement set forth in Section 2
       below.

       Section 1.	Definitions.

(a) Terms used in this amendment and not otherwise defined
(b) herein shall have the respective meanings
       ascribed thereto in the Original Statement.

(c) The Original Statement as amended hereby is hereinafter
(d) referred to as the  Amended Statement.

       Section 2. 	Amendment.

       Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in the Original
       Statement, the Amended Statement shall
       apply only to the Series 1 VRDP Shares originally issued on
       August 7, 2008, all of the Outstanding shares
       of which were retired on June 24, 2010 and returned to the
       status of authorized and unissued preferred shares without
       designation as to Series, and not to any other VRDP Shares of
       any Series issued or to be issued by the Fund.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, Nuveen Insured California Tax-
       Free Advantage Municipal Fund has caused these presents to
       be signed as of August __, 2010 in its name and on its behalf
       by its Chief Administrative Officer and attested by its Vice
       President and Assistant Secretary.  The Declaration is on file
       with the Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of
       Massachusetts, and the said officers of the Fund have executed
       this amendment to the Original Statement as officers and not
       individually, and the obligations and rights set forth in the
       Amended Statement are not binding upon any such officers, or
       the trustees of the Fund or shareholders of the Fund,
       individually, but are binding only upon the assets and property
       of the Fund.

NUVEEN INSURED CALIFORNIA TAX-FREE ADVANTAGE MUNICIPAL FUND
By:__________________________________________
Name: Gifford R. Zimmerman
Title: Chief Administrative Officer
ATTEST:

Name: Mark L. Winget
Title: Vice President and Assistant Secretary


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