California Water Commission expected to vote this afternoon to send the regulation to OAL and start the formal public comment period
Revised staff draft regulations for the California Water Commission’s Water Storage Investment Program are now available on the Commission’s website: https://cwc.ca.gov/Pages/QuantificationRulemaking.aspx
Proposition 1, passed in November 2014, provided $7.5 billion for investments in California’s water management infrastructure. The bond dedicated $2.7 billion of the monies for investments in groundwater and surface water storage projects and designated the California Water Commission as the agency responsible for appropriately allocating these funds. The legislative deadline for the Commission to adopt the completed regulations is December 15, 2016.
The draft regulations being released today by the Water Commission define the requirements for the potential storage projects, what information project applicants must submit, how the public benefits will be calculated, and how the applications will evaluated.
Released earlier this month was the technical reference document, which will be incorporated into the regulation by reference.
The California Water Commission will meet by teleconference today at 4pm; the Council is expected to take action and vote to send these draft regulations to the Office of Administrative Law, thus beginning the formal public comment period. An additional notice from the Commission is expected after this afternoon’s meeting has occurred, and will be posted here as soon as it is received.
Click here for the draft regulation. For more information about the California Water Commission’s Water Storage Investment Program, please visit our website at: https://cwc.ca.gov/Pages/PublicBenefits1.aspx
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