Calfed Bay-Delta Authorization Act

Bill: 108-hr-2641
Sponsor: Rep. Miller, George [D-CA-7]
Introduced: 2003-06-26 in the House
Policy area: Water Resources Development
Subjects: Agricultural pollution
Agriculture and Food
Animals
Authorization
California
Central Valley Reclamation Project (California)
Coastal zone
Congress
Congressional reporting requirements
Cost effectiveness
Dams
Drainage
Dredging
Earthquakes
Easements
Ecological research
Economics and Public Finance
Ecosystem management
Emergency Management
Endangered species
Energy
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Environmental justice
Estuaries
Federal advisory bodies
Federal aid to water pollution control
Federal aid to water resources development
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-local relations
Federal-state relations
Fisheries
Fishery management
Fishes
Flood control
Government Operations and Politics
Government lending
Groundwater
Habitat conservation
Hydroelectric power
Infrastructure
Irrigation
Islands
Land subsidence
Land transfers
Licenses
Marine and coastal resources, fisheries
Mercury
Minorities
Navigation
Non-native species
Oxygen
Pest control
Pesticide pollution
Planning-programming-budgeting
Potable water
Reservoirs
Restoration ecology
Riparian ecology
Rivers
Saline waters
Science, Technology, Communications
Sediment control
Selenium
State laws
Strategic planning
Transportation and Public Works
Waste water treatment
Water conservation
Water districts
Water quality
Water storage
Water supply
Water use
Watersheds
Wetlands
Wildlife conservation
Wildlife refuges

Summary:
action_date: 2003-06-26
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 and all applicable State and Federal law: 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; refuge water supplies; groundwater management.
 
 Prohibits the authorization of any Federal funds for a project under the Program for increasing water supply, water yield, water storage, or water conveyance that is intended for any agricultural, municipal and industrial, domestic, or hydroelectric power purposes unless a feasibility study is prepared, a report on findings is submitted, and the Secretary certifies that: (1) the study and report indicate that total project benefits will equal or exceed total project costs; (2) the beneficiaries have demonstrated a willingness and ability to pay for costs allocated to them under the beneficiaries pay principle; and (3) such beneficiaries are obligated to repay such costs.
 
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: 2003-07-24
text: Subcommittee Hearings Held.
action_date: 2003-07-07
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water and Power.
action_date: 2003-07-07
text: Executive Comment Requested from Interior.
action_date: 2003-06-27
text: Referred to the Subcommittee on Water Resources and Environment.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Referred to the Committee on Resources, and in addition to the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House
action_date: 2003-06-26
text: Introduced in House