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Comprehensive Review of the Bay-Delta Plan, Water Rights
and Other Requirements to Protect Fish and Wildlife Beneficial Uses and the Public Trust
The Bay-Delta Strategic Workplan requires a
comprehensive review of the Bay-Delta Plan and water rights and other measures
implementing that plan to establish interim and long-term water quality
objectives and implementation measures to protect fish and wildlife beneficial
uses of water and the public trust. The
Workplan includes information-gathering activities by the State Water Board
that may affect the scope of the Bay-Delta Plan revision or provide summaries
of science to date at the commencement of the environmental review
process. Those activities include: an October 2008 scoping meeting
on periodic review of the Bay-Delta Plan; and a series of evidentiary hearings
on a number of critical factual issues concerning the Delta’s ecology.
- Periodic Review
- Evidentiary Hearings
- December 17, 2008 Save the date for a pre-proceeding conference on the periodic review informational proceeding.
- November 18, 2008 - Board Meeting (agenda item #10): Consideration of whether to proceed with the informational fact-finding proceeding described in the Water Boards' Bay-Delta Strategic Workplan and whether to issue the draft informational proceeding notice or amend the notice.
- August 29, 2008 - Request for Written Input on Factual Issues Regarding the Bay-Delta with Enclosure
(Description of Upcoming Related Bay-Delta Water Quality Control Planning Processes Included
in the Water Boards’ Strategic Workplan for the Bay-Delta). Written comments per this
request are due by 5:00 p.m. on September 29, 2008, since 30 days from the original
request date falls on a weekend.
- Comments
- Questions - Concerning Evidentiary Hearings can be directed to Diane Riddle (email or by phone: (916)341-5297
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