[Federal Register Volume 62, Number 249 (Tuesday, December 30, 1997)]
[Notices]
[Pages 67891-67892]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 97-33849]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation


Bay-Delta Advisory Council's Ecosystem Roundtable Meeting

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Bay-Delta Advisory Council's (BDAC) Ecosystem Roundtable 
will meet to discuss several issues including: additional proposals, 
directed programs, and focused grants for FY 98 funding, revised 
planning process, funding coordination, and other issues. This meeting 
is open to the public. Interested persons may make oral statements to 
the Ecosystem Roundtable or may file written statements for 
consideration.

DATES: The Bay-Delta Advisory Council's Ecosystem Roundtable meeting 
will be held from 9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Tuesday, January 13, 1998.

ADDRESSES: The Ecosystem Roundtable will meet in Room 1131, Resources 
Building, 1416 Ninth Street, Sacramento, CA.

CONTACT PERSON FOR MORE INFORMATION:
Cindy Darling, CALFED Bay-Delta Program, at (916) 657-2666. If 
reasonable accommodation is needed due to a disability, please contact 
the Equal Employment Opportunity Office at (916) 653-6952 or TDD (916) 
653-6934 at least one week prior to the meeting.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin 
Delta Estuary (Bay-Delta system) is a critically important part of 
California's natural environment and economy. In recognition of the 
serious problems facing the region and the complex resource management 
decisions that must be made, the state of California and the Federal 
government are working together to stabilize, protect, restore, and 
enhance the Bay-Delta system. The State and Federal agencies with 
management and regulatory responsibilities in the Bay-Delta system are 
working together as CALFED to provide policy direction and oversight 
for the process.

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    One area of Bay-Delta management includes the establishment of a 
joint State-Federal process to develop long-term solutions to problems 
in the Bay-Delta system related to fish and wildlife, water supply 
reliability, natural disasters, and water quality. The intent is to 
develop a comprehensive and balanced plan which addresses all of the 
resource problems. This effort, the CALFED Bay-Delta Program (Program), 
is being carried out under the policy direction of CALFED. The Program 
is exploring and developing a long-term solution for a cooperative 
planning process that will determine the most appropriate strategy and 
actions necessary to improve water quality, restore health to the Bay-
Delta ecosystem, provide for a variety of beneficial uses, and minimize 
Bay-Delta vulnerability. A group of citizen advisors representing 
California's agricultural, environmental, urban, business, fishing, and 
other interests who have a stake in finding long-term solutions for the 
problems affecting the Bay-Delta system has been chartered under the 
Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) as the Bay-Delta Advisory Council 
(BDAC) to advise CALFED on the program mission, problems to be 
addressed, the objectives for the Program. The BDAC provides a forum to 
help ensure public participation, and will review reports and other 
materials prepared by CALFED staff. The BDAC has established a 
subcommittee called the Ecosystem Roundtable to provide input on annual 
workplans to implement ecosystem restoration projects and programs.
    Minutes of the meeting will be maintained by the CALFED Bay-Delta 
Program, Suite 1155, 1416 Ninth Street, Sacramento, CA 95814, and will 
be available for public inspection during regular business hours, 
Monday through Friday within 30 days following the meeting.

    Dated: December 19, 1997.
Roger Patterson,
Regional Director, Mid-Pacific Region.
[FR Doc. 97-33849 Filed 12-29-97; 8:45 am]
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