Interim renewal contracts among the State of California Department of Water Resources, United States Bureau of Reclamation, and the Cross Valley Canal

Interim renewal contracts among the State of California Department of Water Resources, United States Bureau of Reclamation, and the Cross Valley Canal

Title Cont: Contractors providing for non-project water conveyance. The project provides interim water service conveyance for the Central Valley Project-Cross Valley Canal (CVP-CVC). The project will allow short-term use of California State Water Project (SWP) facilities to convey CVP water to the CVC contractors. In accordance with an approved water delivery schedule, federally contracted CVP-CVC water supplies will be conveyed from the Clifton Court Forebay at the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, through the SWP facilities, to the CVC turnout in Reach 12E of the California Aqueduct or to other points of diversion mutually agreed to in writing by DWR and the CVC contractors. The CVP-CVC water supplies may also be conveyed to the San Luis Reservoir as part of the federal share of storage for later release and delivery to the CVC contractors. The term of this proposed agreement is from March 1, 2020 through February 28, 2022. DWR prepared an Addendum to the Negative Declaration, which was adopted in 2008 for the interim renewal of contracts for CVC-CVP water conveyance, and determined that changes associated with the current interim renewal would not create any new significant impact or a significant increase in the severity of impacts identified in the Negative Declaration.

Fresno, Kern, Merced, Tulare