Category: Public Policy

Project Update and Response Needed: Water Board MUN evaluation in Ag Dominated Water Bodies

  This is a message from the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Central Valley (5). This notification pertains to the “Evaluation of the Municipal and Domestic Supply (MUN) Beneficial Use in Ag Dominated Surface Water Bodies” basin planning effort. Both MUN Basin Plan Amendments were on the agenda at the last Central Valley Water Board […]

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CASA Honors Assembly Member Anthony Rendon Named Legislator of the Year

Assembly Member Anthony Rendon Named Legislator of the Year CASA Board Vice President, Kevin Hardy, presented Assembly Member Anthony Rendon with CASA’s Legislator of the Year award this morning at CASA’s Public Policy Forum in Sacramento.  Assembly Member Rendon accepts CASA’s Legislator of the Year award from Kevin Hardy Assembly Member Rendon is a major […]

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CalDesal Newsletter – April 2015

 Thank you to our Spring Mixer Sponsors: Water Board To Adopt Ocean Desalination Rules and RegulationsThe long awaited amendments to the California Ocean Plan relating to ocean desalination are set for an adoption hearing on May 6, 2015. After four years of multiple public workshops, several expert panels and studies a new rigorous 21st Century set […]

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EPA, Justice Department, and State of California will announce a Clean Water Act settlement to protect San Francisco Bay

MEDIA ADVISORY: EPA, Justice Department, and State of California will announce a Clean Water Act settlement to protect San Francisco Bay Release Date: 04/23/2015 Contact Information: Suzanne Skadowski, U.S. EPA, 415-972-3165, skadowski.suzanne@epa.gov SAN FRANCISCO – On April 29, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Department of Justice, and the State of California will announce a […]

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Notice of Proposed Rulemaking – Cal. State Lands Commission

THE CALIFORNIA STATE LANDS COMMISSION NOTICE OF PROPOSED RULEMAKING Notice is hereby given that the California State Lands Commission (Commission) proposes to add Article 14, Sections 3000 through 3016 to Title 2, Division 3, Chapter 1 of the California Code of Regulations (CCR).  These sections implement administrative hearings under Public Resources Code section 6224.3 and […]

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ACWA Submits Comment Letter on State Board Proposed Regulations on Mandatory Conservation

April 23, 2015 ACWA Submits Comment Letter on State Board Proposed Regulations on Mandatory Conservation Formal Rulemaking Package Expected on April 28 ACWA submitted comments late yesterday to the State Water Resources Control Board regarding the draft emergency regulations on mandatory conservation issued April 18. ACWA’s comment letter and related attachments are available here. Yesterday […]

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Revised Notice Of Adoption Meeting – Desalination Amendments

This is a message from the State Water Resources Control Board. Attached here is a Revised Notice of Adoption Meeting Proposed Final Amendment to the Water Quality Control Plan for Ocean Waters of California Addressing Desalination Facility Intakes, Brine Discharges, and the Incorporation of Other Non-Substantive Changes and Proposed Final Staff Report Including the Substitute […]

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