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MEETING NOTICE AND AGENDA

Delta Protection Commission

Date: March 25, 2004

Time:  6:30 PM

Location:

  • Jean Harvie Community Center
    14273 River Road
    Walnut Grove, CA

AGENDA

  1. Call to Order/Roll Call
  2. Public Comment
  3. Minutes of the Last Meeting
  4. Chairman's Report
    1. Consider appointing a Committee to review and advise the full Commission on projects outside the Primary Zone (Secondary Zone or Outside the Legal Delta) that may impact the resources of the Primary Zone.
  5. Commissioner Comments/Announcements
  6. Attorney General's Report
  7. Executive Director's Report
    1. Pending Projects Memo
  8. CALFED Activities and Projects
    1. Briefing/Update (Ron Ott, Delta Coordinator)
  9. Position on Freeport Regional Water Project Intake Location (For Public Hearing and Possible Commission Action)
     Note: This item was carried over from the January 2004 Meeting
    1. The Freeport Regional Water Project, to serve water users in the East Bay and Sacramento County, has released a draft environmental impact report on the proposed project and a supplemental report describing the analysis of various locations for the intake. The intake is currently proposed on publicly-owned land in the City of Sacramento, in the Secondary Zone of the Delta. Concerns have been raised by nearby residents about the proposed intake location. The Commission will review the analysis of alternative intake locations, and possibly take a position against relocating the proposed intake in the Primary Zone of the Delta. The Commission had a briefing on the proposed project in March 2003.
  10. Staff Report and Preliminary Staff Analysis of the General Plan of the City of Oakley (For Public Hearing Only)
    1. The Commission will accept public comments, and review and discuss the new City of Oakley's General Plan conformance with the Commission's Land Use and Resource Management Plan for the Primary Zone of the Delta. A vote is tentatively scheduled for May 27, 2004, at the end of the required 30-day review period.
  11. Briefing on Regional Planning Programs Underway in the Greater Delta Region: "Shaping Our Future" [Contra Costa County] and "Blueprint" by Sacramento Area Council of Governments [Sacramento and Yolo Counties]. (For Commission Information and Possible Action)
  12. Position on In-Delta Storage Program State Feasibility Study prepared by Department of Water Resources; a CALFED Program (January 2004) (For Possible Commission Action)
    1. The Commission will review and discuss the recently released Feasibility Study. The topic has been reviewed by the Commission's CALFED Committee (March 10, 2004). The California Bay Delta Authority is scheduled to consider the Feasibility Study at its April meeting.
  13. Adjourn.

Agenda and related information are available at www.delta.ca.gov. If you have any questions or need reasonable accommodation due to a disability, please contact Sheila Singleton, Delta Protection Commission, (916) 776-2290.