Calfed Bay-Delta Authorization Act

Bill: 108-s-1097
Sponsor: Sen. Feinstein, Dianne [D-CA]
Introduced: 2003-05-21 in the Senate
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agriculture and Food
Animals
Appropriations
Authorization
California
Canals
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Dams
Drainage
Dredging
Earthquakes
Easements
Economics and Public Finance
Emergency Management
Endangered species
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental justice
Environmental research
Estuaries
Exotic animals
Exotic plants
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Finance and Financial Sector
Financial statements
Fishery management
Flood control
Government Operations and Politics
Government paperwork
Groundwater
Habitat conservation
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Islands
Land subsidence
Land transfers
Law
Legislation
Licenses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mercury
Minorities
Non-native species
Oxygen
Performance measurement
Pesticide pollution
Potable water
Public Lands and Natural Resources
Regional planning
Reservoirs
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
Rivers
Saline waters
Science, Technology, Communications
Selenium
Strategic planning
Transportation and Public Works
Urban affairs
Water conservation
Water pollution control
Water quality
Water storage
Water supply
Water treatment plants
Water use
Watersheds

Summary:
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: 
Calfed Bay-Delta Authorization Act - Approves the August 28, 2000, Federal programmatic Record of Decision issued by specified Federal agencies and supported by the State of California as a framework for addressing Calfed Bay-Delta Program components. Authorizes the Secretary and the heads of such agencies to carry out Stage 1 activities (projects and programs planned for the first seven years) in the following categories if such activities have been subject to environmental review and approval under Federal and State law and have been certified by the California Bay-Delta Authority to be consistent with the Record of Decision: water storage; conveyance; water use efficiency; water transfers; the Environmental Water account; integrated regional water management plans; ecosystem restoration; watersheds; water quality; levee stability; science; program management, oversight, and coordination; and diversification of water supplies. 
 
Requires the Federal agencies to: (1) coordinate their activities with specified California agencies; (2) cooperate with local and tribal governments and the public through a federally chartered advisory committee or other means; and (3) implement the Program using the best available scientific information and scientific review.
 

 

 
Directs the Secretary: (1) to report monthly on the Authority's progress in achieving the water supply targets, environmental water account requirements, and water quality targets described in the Record and on any pending actions that may affect the Authority's ability to achieve those targets and requirements; (2) to report annually on Program implementation, expenditures, and accomplishments; (3) to certify in such annual report whether the Program is progressing in a balanced manner in advancing Program components (requires the Authority to prepare a revised implementation schedule to ensure balanced progress if balance is not certified); (4) to submit annual financial reports containing a detailed accounting of all Federal and State funds received and obligated under the Program and all projects to be carried out in the upcoming year; (5) prior to December 2004, to report to Congress on the Program's accomplishments, the specific steps remaining to be undertaken, the specific funding levels and sources to accomplish such steps, and recommendations necessary to accomplish Program goals and objectives.
 
 Requires: (1) the President's budget to include requests for an appropriate funding level for each Federal agency to carry out its Program responsibilities; and (2) the Office of Management and Budget to submit an interagency budget crosscut report displaying the budget proposed for each such agency for the Program.
 
Prohibits the Federal share of the total cost of implementing Stage 1 from exceeding 33.3 percent.


Legislative actions:
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 523.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 108-268.
action_date: 2004-05-20
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Reported by Senator Domenici with an amendment in the nature of a substitute. With written report No. 108-268.
action_date: 2004-04-28
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. Ordered to be reported with an amendment in the nature of a substitute favorably.
action_date: 2003-10-30
text: Committee on Energy and Natural Resources Subcommittee on Water and Power. Hearings held. With printed Hearing: S.Hrg. 108-338.
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. (text of measure as introduced:  CR S6860-6863)
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR S6859-6860)
action_date: 2003-05-21
text: Introduced in Senate