THE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR FEDERAL POLICY RESEARCH Invites You To Attend A Capitol Hill Lunch Briefing Featuring Two Newly Released S&T Policy-Related Reports on: A Roadmap to a Sustainable Water Future for California and The Efficacy of Digitally Enhanced Education Presented by: California Council on Science and Technology Thursday, June 5, 2014 Noon – 1:00 P.M. B-338 […]
Continue ReadingCalifornia Capitol Hill Bulletin Volume 21, Bulletin 15 – May 29, 2014 CONTENTS OF THIS ISSUE: Appropriations: House Passes Commerce, Justice, Science Funding Appropriations: House Committee Releases FY15 Homeland Security Bill Appropriations: House Reports FY15 Funding For Agriculture And Nutrition Programs Energy: House Foreign Affairs Examines Benefits Of LNG To Asia Security: Hearing Held […]
Continue ReadingWALNUT GROVE, CA – Congressman John Garamendi (D-Fairfield, CA), a longtime resident of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Member of the House Agriculture and Transportation and Infrastructure committees, is happy to report that the United States Department of Agriculture is naming California’s entire Bay-Delta watershed, covering most of the Central Valley, as one of eight critical conservation […]
Continue ReadingCASA Member Alert: A modified version of Assembly Bill 371 by Assembly member Rudy Salas is scheduled for a hearing in the Senate Environmental Quality Committee on June 18, 2014. While the bill has been scaled back and no longer seeks to allow Kern County to ban biosolids land application, CASA remains opposed due to […]
Continue ReadingTHE CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE FOR FEDERAL POLICY RESEARCH Invites You To Attend A Capitol Hill Lunch Briefing Featuring Two Newly Released S&T Policy-Related Reports on: A Roadmap to a Sustainable Water Future for California And The Efficacy of Digitally Enhanced Education Presented by California Council on Science and Technology Thursday, June 5, 2014 Noon – 1:00 […]
Continue ReadingThe State Water Board has announced proposed regulations that would require curtailments on water diversions if minimum flows in three Sacramento River tributaries are not met. The emergency regulations will establish drought emergency minimum flow requirements for the protection of specific runs of federal- and state-listed anadromous fish in Mill Creek, Deer Creek and Antelope […]
Continue ReadingThe Draft BDCP and BDCP Draft EIR/EIS are being made available to the public for a 180-day review period (including a 60-day extension). The public review and comment period is effective December 13, 2013 through June 13, 2014. Visit the Bay Delta Conservation Plan website for full details.
Continue ReadingThe State Water Board approved Emergency Regulations for Curtailment of Diversions Due to Insufficient Flow for Specific Fisheries at its May 20, 21, 2014 Board meeting. On May 23, 2014, the State Water Board staff submitted the emergency rulemaking package to the Office of Administrative Law (OAL) for final approval. The OAL submittal is available […]
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