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  • by BPC Staff
  • onFebruary 25, 2013
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A Message from the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board

Below is a Notice of Preparation for a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA)/ Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for the operation and maintenance of the federal navigational channels in San Francisco Bay. Under the California Environmental Quality Act, the San Francisco Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board is the lead State agency responsible for overseeing the analysis […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onFebruary 25, 2013
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Water Board Stakeholder Meeting

The next stakeholder meeting for the “Evaluation of the MUN Beneficial Use in Ag Dominated Water Bodies” project is scheduled for Tuesday March 26, 2013 from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Rancho Cordova office. There will be a WebEx connection for those who will be unable to attend in person. The focus of […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onFebruary 22, 2013
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Pacific Maritime Magazine News Online, Feb. 22, 2013

 FEBRUARY 2013 Pacific Maritime Magazine PRINT EDITION February 2013 Issue PMM Online is produced by Philips Publishing Group Going to Gas- New Uses for LNG By Jim Shaw   Federal Way, Washington-based TOTE’s recent announcement that it had contracted two LNG-fueled container ships from San Diego’s NASSCO shipyard is one in a growing number of […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onFebruary 22, 2013
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From Reuters: U.S. government won’t fall apart on “sequester” day of reckoning

By Richard Cowan and David Lawder WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Just as computers worldwide did not crash on January 1, 2000, in the “Y2K” scare and Earth itself did not shatter on December 21, 2012, as some interpreters of the Mayan calendar predicted, March 1, 2013, will not be remembered as the day the U.S. government […]

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  • by BPC Staff
  • onFebruary 22, 2013
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From the CEQA Working Group Coalition

Another Example of CEQA Misuse: Moe’s Stop Gas Station, San Jose CEQA Working Group Coalition: Today we’ve released the fourth case study in our weekly series profiling examples of misuses of CEQA: Moe’s Stop Gas Station in San Jose. When Moe’s Stop wanted to add a few more pumps to the existing gas station, the […]

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