BOARD02627

• Board Meeting Date: 1/25/2005
• Description: ISF Section - Instream Flow Strategic Plan Workshop
• Board Meetings - Doc Type: Other

CWCB Board Workshop on
Stream and Lake Protection (SLP) Strategic rlanning
. January 25, 2005

Summary of Potentially Relevant SWSI Implementation Tasks to
SLP Section Strategic Planning
(excerpts from Section 11 - Implementation)

Board Tasks

1. Convey "collective" information about Board activities issues and needs and
challenges to their elected officials to maintain a sense of order and facilitate
communication when the need for legislative action arises.

2. Help identify and support requests for statutory, regulatory, and financial requests
made to Congress and Federal agencies.

3. Support the designation of staff within the Board to be dedicated to SWSI
implementation.

4. Identify specific ways to foster cooperation.

5. Support the implementation of identified projects and processes.

6. Exarnine the need for project permitting and mitigation assistance, recognizing
that permit requirements and mitigation have resulted inuncertainty and increased
project costs for many years. This has resulted in many M&I providers moving
toward agricultural transfers due to greater certainty and flexibility. This might
include exarnining the need for a state/federal/local permitting assistance "tearn".

7. Promote and facilitate coordinated operations of existing facilities and
infrastructure.

8. Promote and support the development of projects that serve multiple purposes.

9. Evaluate alternative methods for determining environmental and recreational
needs, and the ways to implement potential solutions.

Section Tasks

1. Identify stream segments or ecological areas for flow prioritization or
enhancement. Working through the Basin Roundtable process, the CDOW, and
other interest groups, the State could begin to develop an objective and