San Diego Creek Watershed Special Area Management Plan (SAMP)/Watershed Streambed Alteration Agreement (WSAA) Process

San Diego Creek Watershed Special Area Management Plan (SAMP)/Watershed Streambed Alteration Agreement (WSAA) Process

NOTE: Document is a Draft EIR and a Draft EIS. The State lead agency, the California Department of Fish and Game, Habitat Conservation Planning, South Coast Region (Department), along with the Federal lead agency the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, Regulatory Division (Corps), have completed the Draft Program EIS/EIR for the San Diego Creek Watershed SAMP/WSAA Process. The SAMP establishes alternative (aquatic-based and watershed-specific) permitting procedures for projects within the San Diego Creek Watershed that will alter the bed, bank or channel of rivers, streams, and lakes and associated riparian habitats under the Department's jurisdiction or to discharge dredged or fill material into waters of the U.S. subject to the Corps jurisdiction. The SAMP permitting procedures will improve the Corps and the Department's capacity to evaluate such projects, as compared to the process each agency would normally follow in permitting such projects on a case-by-case basis.

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Other (Watershed-specific modifications)

Watershed-specific modifications

Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Coastal Zone, Cultural Resources, Cumulative Effects, Drainage/Absorption, Economics/Jobs, Flood Plain/Flooding, Geology/Soils, Growth Inducement, Hazards & Hazardous Materials, Hydrology/Water Quality, Land Use/Planning, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Schools/Universities, Solid Waste, Transportation, Vegetation, Wetland/Riparian, Wildfire