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-- Meeting Notice --
-- Agenda --
Meeting of the DELTA VISION BLUE RIBBON TASK FORCE
Thursday, March 20 and Friday, March 21, 2008
Holiday Inn Capitol Plaza
300 J Street, El Dorado Room
Sacramento, CA
Pre-Meeting Agenda for Web Posting
DAY 1: Thursday, March 20, 2008 (10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.)
10:00 a.m.
- Introductions and Opening Remarks
10:05 a.m.
- Overview of Meeting Objectives, Context, and Updates on Developing Work Plan, Stakeholder Coordination Group and Work Group
Meetings, and Near-Term Actions
Attachment 1: Illustrative Questions to Direct to Departments and Others
Power Point Presentation: Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force Opening Presentation
Handout 1: Bureau of Reclamation Water Use Efficiency Recommendations for the Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force
Handout 2: CVP Rates for Water
Handout 3: Comparison of Suite of 2007 Flood Legislation – Table 1 – Summary of Legislation & Comparison of Suite of 2007 Flood Legislation – Table 2 – Specific Tools of Legislation
Handout 4: State Water Resources Control Board Resolution No. 2007-0079
Handout 5: State Water Resources Control Board Notice of Public Workshop
Handout 5: SWRCB Notice of Public Workshop Attachment A and B
10:45 a.m.
- Legal and Legislative Update
Attachment 1: SB 27. Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, Clean Drinking Water, Water Supply Security, and Environmental Improvement Act of 2008
Attachment 2: SB X2. Safe Drinking Water Act of 2008
11:15 a.m.
- Work Area: Delta as Place
Handout 1: Preliminary Strategic Plan Concepts from “Delta as Place
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Handout 2: AB 2504, Del Saulnier, Delta Marketing Plan
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:30 p.m.
- Discussion of Administration Actions
Attachment 1: February 28, 2008, Letter from Governor Schwarzenegger to Senators Perata, Machado, and Steinberg
2:30 p.m.
6a. Work Area: The Estuarine Ecosystem
Power Point Presentation: Ecosystem Work Group Progress Report
Power Point Presentation: Comparing Natural and Modified Sloughs in the Suisun Marsh - Geometry Begets Variability
Power Point Presentation: Ecosystem Workgoup - Thoughts on Land-Water Interface
3:15 p.m.
6b. Work Area: The Estuarine Ecosystem Latest Science
Power Point Presentation: State of the Bay-Delta Science 2008
Power Point Presentation: The Collapse of Pelagic Fishes in the Upper San Francisco Estuary
Attachment 1: The State of the Bay-Delta Science 2008 – Summary for Policymakers and the Public
- Public Comment
5:00 p.m. Adjourn
DAY 2: Friday, March 21, 2008 (9:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m.)
9:00 a.m.
- Opening Remarks
9:05 a.m.
- Meeting Day Overview
9:15 a.m.
- Work Area: Water
Power Point Presentation: Groundwater in the Sacramento Valley --How Does it Work?
Power Point Presentation: Water Supply Reliability - Groundwater Banking'
Handout 1: Draft Meeting Itinerary for Water Supply and Reliability Working Group
Handout 2: USBR Status report on Development of Interim Groundwater Banking Guidelines
10:45 a.m. Break
11:00 a.m.
- Work Area: Governance
Attachment 1: The Soft Path to Water Policy Reforform
Power Point Presentation: Briefing by the California Energy Commission
11:45 a.m.
- Work Area: Governance Proposals
Handout 1: Bay-Delta Governance Problems and Recommendations
Handout 2: Discussion Paper - Bay Delta Governance
12:30 p.m. Lunch Break
1:15 p.m.
- Task Force Discussion of (a) Questions to Direct to Departments and Others, and (b) Direction to Staff Regarding Work Plan (Action Item)
2:15 p.m.
- Public Comment
3:00 p.m. Adjourn
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