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Follow the progress of important federal and state bills dealing with California fisheries. Check to see how your legislators voted.

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California Assembly

CSPA is monitoring progress on AB 13

AB 13 - Assembly Member Salas
An act to add Division 29 (commencing with Section 80500) to the Water Code, relating to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. legislative counsel’s digest AB 13, as introduced, Salas. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy. Existing law authorizes various conservancies to acquire, manage, direct the management of, and conserve public lands in the state. This bill would establish the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy to provide policy oversight, foster implementation of, and manage funds to implement those components of, a comprehensive delta sustainability program intended to restore and manage habitat in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and Suisun Marsh.

CSPA is monitoring progress on AB 39

ASSEMBLY BILL No. 39 - Introduced by Assembly Member Huffman
An act relating to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta.
AB 39, as introduced, Huffman. Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta: Final Delta Vision Strategic Plan. Existing law requires the Secretary of the Resources Agency to convene a committee to develop and submit to the Governor and the Legislature, on or before December 31, 2008, a Strategic Vision for a Sustainable Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta with specified components. This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to implement the recommendations in the Final Delta Vision Strategic Plan issued by the Delta Vision Blue Ribbon Task Force and the Delta Vision Committee established pursuant to Executive Order S-17-06 and Chapter 535 of the Statutes of 2006.

CSPA is monitoring progress on AB 49

AB 49, as introduced, Feuer.
Water conservation: urban water use.
Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources to convene
an independent technical panel to provide information to the department
and the Legislature on new demand management measures, technologies,
and approaches. “Demand management measures” means those water
conservation measures, programs, and incentives that prevent the waste
of water and promote the reasonable and efficient use and reuse of
available supplies.
This bill would require the state to achieve a 20% reduction in urban
per capita water use in California by December 31, 2020.


CSPA supports AB 883

AB 883 -- (Huffman) Reorganization of the Department of Fish and Game
This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact

legislation that would enhance the effectiveness, accountability, and
capacity of the department to fulfill its public trust mission, take
steps necessary to fulfill specified policy goals, and identify
changes in organizational structure or statutory authorities that
would enable the department and the state to more efficiently and
effectively provide for the protection, conservation, and management
of the state's fish and wildlife.


CSPA endorses AB 1052

AB 1052 -- This bill would make the Bay Delta Enhancement Stamp
or validation requirement inoperative as of January 1, 2010. (Cabellero) The bill
would require the department to implement various provisions related
to expenditures from the account, and by an unspecified date, to
prepare and submit to the Legislature a report on the steps taken by
the department to comply with those provisions. The bill would
require the department, in consultation with the advisory committee,
to determine appropriate projects for expenditure of the balance of
funds in the account, as prescribed.

AB 1187_Huffman: $10 billion for Regional water supply reliability, drought relief, Delta Sustainability, Water System Improvements - Surface Storage, Conservation and Watershed Protection; Ground Water & Water Quality; and Water Recycling.


CSPA supports the amended version of AB 1253

AB 1253 -- (Fuller) Amended 4-28-09 to:
a) The independent science program of the CALFED Bay Delta Program shall conduct an independent scientific review of existing literature and studies on non-native predation in the Delta, for the purpose of evaluating whether additional studies are needed on the affects of predation on species listed as threatened or endangered under the state or federal endangered species acts, and to determine whether non-native predator species are having a population level impact on native salmonids or other indigenous pelagic species in the Delta, and if so, whether policy and operational changes are needed to reduce predation effects. The review shall also include a review of fish salvage methods and other mitigation protocols at state and federal pumping facilities and recommendations for changes in methodologies to improve survival.
 
b) Subsequent to the review, the independent science panel shall report to the Legislature and the Governor with recommendations on whether additional studies are needed, and if so what the design and scope of those studies should be, and an estimate of the total costs of the studies.

California Senate


CSPA is opposed to SB 12 unless amended addressing the issue of, "co-equal."

SB 12 --  Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta,
Clean Drinking Water, Water Supply Security, and Environmental
Improvement Act of 2009. (Simitian) The bill would establish the Delta Ecosystem
and Water Council. The council would be required to prepare and
adopt a plan referred to as the California Delta Ecosystem and Water
Plan (plan) to advance the coequal goals of restoring the Delta
ecosystem and creating a more reliable water supply in California.
The council would be required to establish a goal for the adoption of
the plan by December 1, 2010. If the plan is not completed by that
date, the council would be required to adopt an interim strategic
plan. The plan would be required to include specified components,
including species protection requirements, Delta water flow and water
quality requirements, and information relating to land use in the
Delta.


CSPA Opposes SB 207 (Held in Committee, 4-27-09)

SB 207 -- Delta Smelt (Flores) This bill would enact the Delta Smelt
Preservation and Restoration Act of 2009. The act would require the
department to develop a Delta smelt hatchery program to preserve and
restore the Delta smelt. The program would operate as a mitigation bank
that provides take authorizations to banking partners and obtains funding
from banking agreements. The bill would transfer an unspecified amount of funds

from an unspecified source which would be continuously appropriated
to the department for purposes of the act.

SB 301_Flores: $15 Billion for Regional Water Supply Reliability, Delta Sustainability, Water System Improvements - Surface Storage; Conservation & Watershed Protection; Ground Water & Water Quality; and Water Recycling.

SB 456_Wolk: $9.7 billion for Regional Water Supply Reliability, Delta Sustainability, Water System Improvements - Surface Storage; Conservation & Watershed Protection; Ground Water & Water Quality; and Water Recycling. (Almost identical to Huffman’s bill)


Under CSPA review

SB 457 -- Delta Conservancy Bill (Wolk)  This bill would create a 7-member Delta Stewardship Council in the
Natural Resources Agency with specified powers and responsibilities
relating to the Delta, including approving the Delta Stewardship Plan
to guide and shape management of the Delta. The bill would require
the commission to present the council with a draft plan on or before
October 1, 2010. The bill would require the council to adopt the plan
on or before January 1, 2011. The bill would require the council to
review, and if necessary, amend the plan at least every 5 years. (More)


Under CSPA review

SB 458 - Delta Conservancy Bill (Wolk) The bill would prescribe the management, powers, and duties of the conservancy. The bill would create the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy Fund in the State Treasury. Moneys in the fund would be available, upon appropriation, for the purposes of the conservancy.


CSPA supports SB459

SB 459 - Delta Conservancy Bill (Wolk) This bill would, instead, provide that a hulk, derelict, wreck, or parts of a ship, vessel, or other watercraft sunk, beached, grounded, or floating and allowed to remain in an unseaworthy or dilapidated condition in areas under the commission's jurisdiction for a period longer than 30 days without its consent is abandoned property. The bill would establish procedures for the commission to sell, destroy, or otherwise dispose of this abandoned property. The bill would require that any proceeds from the sale of abandoned property, less the commission's costs, be deposited into the General Fund.

SB 460 - Urban Water Management Planning Act (Wolk) This bill would require urban water suppliers and
agricultural water suppliers to include additional information in their respective reports, including
for each plan a detailed description and analysis of a long-term plan to reduce water use. The bill would require agricultural water suppliers to prepare and adopt a specified agricultural water management plan.


CSPA supports SB539

SB 539 - (Wiggins) Salmon and steelhead trout: California Ocean Protection Trust Fund.
The California Ocean Protection Act establishes the Ocean Protection Council in state government and provides that the council consists of the Secretary of the Natural Resources Agency, the Secretary for Environmental Protection, the Chair of the State Lands Commission, and 2 public members appointed by the Governor. The act requires the council, among other things, to coordinate activities of state agencies that are related to the protection and conservation of coastal waters and ocean ecosystems, and to establish policies to coordinate the collection and sharing of scientific data related to coast and ocean resources between agencies. The act also establishes the California Ocean Protection Trust Fund and authorizes moneys in the trust fund to be expended, upon appropriation by the Legislature, and upon authorization by the council, for grants or loans to public agencies, nonprofit corporations, or private entities for, and direct expenditures on, various projects and activities related to the protection of coastal and ocean resources.

This bill would additionally include among the projects and activities eligible for funding from the trust fund specified projects and activities related to restoration of native salmon and steelhead trout populations and restoration of the state's salmon fishery.


CSPA supports SB670

SB 670 (Wiggins) This bill would prohibit the use of any vacuum or suction dredge
equipment in any river, stream, or lake until the director of the
department certifies to the Secretary of State that (1) the
department has completed an environmental review of its existing
vacuum or suction dredge equipment regulations as ordered by the
court in a specified court action, (2) the department has transmitted
for filing with the Secretary of State a certified copy of new
regulations, and (3) the new regulations are operative.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as
an urgency statute.

SB 753_ Stienberg: $9.7 billion for Regional water supply reliability, drought relief, Delta Sustainability, Water System Improvements -  Surface Storage, Conservation & Watershed Protection; Ground Water & Water Quality; and Water Recycling.


CSPA supports SB778

SB 778 (Wiggins) Salmon Stamp Bill - This bill would, instead, require payment of a fee of $350 for a commercial fishing salmon stamp. The bill also would delete an obsolete reference and make other technical, nonsubstantive changes in those provisions.

CSPA is monitoring progress on SB 808

SB 808  Introduced by Senator Wolk
An act to add Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12228) to Part
4.5 of Division 6 of the Water Code, relating to the San Francisco
Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary, and declaring the urgency
thereof, to take effect immediately.

legislative counsel’s digest

SB 808, as introduced, Wolk. San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta Estuary: strategic work plan.
Under existing law, various state agencies administer programs
relating to water supply, water quality, and flood management in the
San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Estuary.
This bill would require the State Water Resources Control Board to
implement its resolution entitled the Strategic Workplan for Actions to
Protect Beneficial Uses of the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta Estuary by commencing an investigation of the
reasonableness of the methods of diversions from the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta used by the State Water Project and the federal Central
Valley Project, ensuring that the implementation is consistent with its
duties to protect the public trust and prevent the waste, unreasonable
use, unreasonable method of use, or unreasonable method of diversion
of water, and taking other action. The state board would be required to
prepare related quarterly reports, which the state board would be
required to make available to the public and to post on the state board’s
Internet Web site.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an
urgency statute.

U. S. Congress, House of Representatives


CSPA supports HR 2055

HR 2055 - The Pacific Salmon Stronghold Act of 2009 (Thompson)
(b) Purposes- The purposes of this Act are--
(1) to expand Federal support and resources for the protection and restoration of the healthiest remaining salmon strongholds in North America to sustain core centers of salmon abundance, productivity, and diversity in order to ensure the long-term viability of salmon populations--
(A) in the States of California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, by focusing resources on cooperative, incentive-based efforts to conserve the roughly 20 percent of salmon habitat that supports approximately two-thirds of salmon abundance; and
(B) in the State of Alaska, a regional stronghold that produces more than one-third of all salmon, by increasing resources available to public and private organizations working cooperatively to conserve regional core centers of salmon abundance and diversity;
(2) to maintain and enhance economic benefits related to fishing or associated with healthy salmon stronghold habitats, or both, including flood protection, recreation, water quantity and quality, carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and other ecosystem services; and
(3) to complement and add to existing Federal, State, and local salmon recovery efforts by using sound science to identify and sustain core centers of salmon abundance, productivity, and diversity in the healthiest remaining salmon ecosystems throughout their range.

U.S. Congress, Senate


CSPA supports S 817

S 817 - The Pacific Salmon Stronghold Act of 2009 (Cantwell)
(b) Purposes- The purposes of this Act are--

(1) to expand Federal support and resources for the protection and restoration of the healthiest remaining salmon strongholds in North America to sustain core centers of salmon abundance, productivity, and diversity in order to ensure the long-term viability of salmon populations--
(A) in the States of California, Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, by focusing resources on cooperative, incentive-based efforts to conserve the roughly 20 percent of salmon habitat that supports approximately two-thirds of salmon abundance; and
(B) in the State of Alaska, a regional stronghold that produces more than one-third of all salmon, by increasing resources available to public and private organizations working cooperatively to conserve regional core centers of salmon abundance and diversity;
(2) to maintain and enhance economic benefits related to fishing or associated with healthy salmon stronghold habitats, including flood protection, recreation, water quantity and quality, carbon sequestration, climate change mitigation and adaptation, and other ecosystem services; and
(3) to complement and add to existing Federal, State, and local salmon recovery efforts by using sound science to identify and sustain core centers of salmon abundance, productivity, and diversity in the healthiest remaining salmon ecosystems throughout their range.

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