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On October 24, 2016, the Ninth Circuit upheld the National Marine Fisheries Service’s (NMFS) threatened listing of Pacific bearded seal subspecies based on climate change projections determining the loss of ... read more
On June 17, 2016, the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) adopted Revised Guidance for Treatment of Climate Change in NMFS Endangered Species Act Decisions (Guidance). In 2014, a NMFS working ... read more
On September 22, 2016, Governor Brown signed into law Assembly Bill 453 (AB-453), giving Semitropic Water Storage District (Semitropic) additional authority regarding groundwater extraction reporting and fees. The new law ... read more
On September 8, 2016, the State Water Resources Control Board’s (State Water Board) Division of Drinking Water (DDW) released its “Investigation on the Feasibility of Developing Uniform Water Recycling Criteria ... read more
On August 29, 2016, the California Water Commission (CWC) released a revised version of the draft regulations governing the application process for obtaining Proposition 1 funding for water storage projects ... read more
The California Constitution provides that when the Legislature or a state agency requires a local government to provide a new program or offer a higher level of service to an ... read more
On August 4, 2016, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) issued proposed amendments to its Water Quality Enforcement Policy (Enforcement Policy). The Enforcement Policy, which was last ... read more
On July 21, 2016, in a lengthy 73-page opinion in Property Reserve, Inc. v. Superior Court, Case No. S217738, the California Supreme Court opened the door for the Department of ... read more
On June 24, 2016, a Sacramento County Superior Court judge confirmed that the Delta Plan “is invalid and must be set aside until proper revisions are completed.” The Delta Plan ... read more
On June 3, 2016, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed litigation by the Center for Environmental Science, Accuracy, and Reliability (CESAR) against the Sacramento ... read more
On May 26, 2016, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) issued a draft order dismissing the administrative civil liability complaint against Byron-Bethany Irrigation District (BBID). The draft ... read more
On May 9, 2016, Governor Brown issued Executive Order B-37-16, providing updated directives to state agencies on increasing long-term water conservation in California and planning for continued drought into 2017. ... read more
With the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) came the requirement for the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to “prepare and publish a report by December 31, ... read more
On April 1, 2016, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) filed a Temporary Urgency Change Petition (TUCP) with the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) requesting modification of certain ... read more
On April 20, 2016, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) will hold workshops to address whether the urban water conservation measures imposed last year should uniformly be ... read more
At its March 1, 2016 board meeting, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) adopted a resolution to update and readopt a drought-related emergency regulation requiring landowners located ... read more
On February 18, 2016, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) released its draft emergency regulations for Groundwater Sustainability Plans (GSPs). The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act of 2014 (SGMA) requires ... read more
On February 8, 2016, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Board) released a draft order (Draft Order) modifying the Waste Discharge Requirements General Order No. R5-2012-0116 for Growers within the ... read more
On January 15, 2016, the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the United States Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) released a working draft of the Biological Assessment (BA) for the ... read more
On January 5, 2016, the deadline passed for persons to file protests to proposed changes in water rights of the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) and the United States ... read more
On November 30, 2015, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator signed the fourth Unregulated Contaminant Monitoring Rule (UCMR). UCMRs require public water systems to monitor and collect data for ... read more
On October 20, 2015, Judge Lawrence O’Neill of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California dismissed the action brought by the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) against ... read more
On October 23, 2015, the State Water Resources Control Board (State Water Board) announced a schedule of meetings to discuss and receive comment on its implementation of Senate Bill 88, ... read more
On October 9, 2015, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals granted a nationwide stay of the Clean Water Rule (Rule), defining “waters of the United States,” adopted by the U.S. ... read more
Bills passed by the California Legislature in the 2015-2016 Regular Session provide for streamlined groundwater adjudications and meaningful amendments to the 2014 Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). In general, SGMA ... read more
