Environmental Water Account (EWA) Demand Shifting Agreement with a California Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Environmental Water Account (EWA) Demand Shifting Agreement with a California Department of Water Resources (DWR)

Pursuant to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) and the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) will prepare an EIR/EIS for implementing the Environmental Water Account (EWA) as described in the Programmatic Record of Decision for the CALFED Bay-Delta Program, dated August 28,2000. A draft Environmental Impact Report/Environmental Impact Statement (EIR/EIS) is expected to be available in late summer 2002. The CALFED Bay Delta Program is a long-term comprehensive plan to restore ecological health and improve water management for beneficial uses in the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta (Bay-Delta) estuary system. The agencies that signed the Record of Decision/Notice of Determination (ROD) for the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement/Environmental Impact Report on August 28, 2000 committed to implement the CALFED Bay Delta Program. The Environmental Water Account (EWA) is one component of the long-term comprehensive plan adopted in the CALFED Bay Delta Program ROD. The EWA was established to provide a supplemental water supply for the protection and recovery of fish beyond what currently exists through the pre-CALFED Program environmental baseline (Tier 1). As part of the Multi-Species Conversion Strategy Conservation Agreement and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service National Maine Fisheries Service biological opinions, the CALFED agencies have committed to specified conditions and legal requirements based on the availability of three tiers of assets or alternative sources of project water supply.

Sacramento, San Francisco, San Joaquin

California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, North Central Region 2 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of State Parks, Division of Boating and Waterways, California Department of Transportation, District 1 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, District 10 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, District 3 (DOT), California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Sacramento Region 5 (RWQCB), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), California State Lands Commission (SLC), Delta Protection Commission, Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), Office of Historic Preservation, Resources Agency, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission (BCDC), State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Quality, State Water Resources Control Board, Division of Water Rights, California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT)

California Department of Transportation, Division of Transportation Planning (DOT)

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