Voluntary Local Program

Voluntary Local Program

Contra Costa Resource Conservation District (CCRCD) is requesting authorization for a Voluntary Local Program (VLP) and take authorization pursuant to California Fish and Game Code and implementing regulations in Section 786 et seq. of Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations. The VLP is a coordinated approach among CCRCD and the Department of Fish and Wildlife (Department) that provides authorization for take of candidate, threatened, or endangered species incidental to routine and ongoing agricultural activities if those activities incorporate specified habitat management practices. The CCRCD VLP becomes effective upon issuance of a take authorization pursuant to 2086 and will be in effect for 10 years.

Contra Costa

California Air Resources Board (ARB), California Department of Conservation (DOC), California Department of Fish and Wildlife, Bay Delta Region 3 (CDFW), California Department of Parks and Recreation, California Department of State Parks, Division of Boating and Waterways, California Department of Transportation, District 4 (DOT), California Highway Patrol, California Native American Heritage Commission (NAHC), California Regional Water Quality Control Board, San Francisco Bay Region 2 (RWQCB), Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), Department of Water Resources, Office of Historic Preservation, Resources Agency, California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Sacramento Region 5 (RWQCB)

California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley Sacramento Region 5 (RWQCB)

Aesthetics, Agriculture and Forestry Resources, Air Quality, Biological Resources, Cultural Resources, Geology/Soils, Land Use/Planning, Mineral Resources, Noise, Population/Housing, Public Services, Recreation, Transportation, GHGE