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Bulletin 160-98 Public Review Draft 003n80 Appendix 2A. Institutional Framework for Allocating and Managing Water Resources in California Following negotiation of the agreement for Banks Pumping Plant, DFG negotiated a similar agreement with USBR for its Tracy Pumping Plant. Surface Water Management The following sections are brief descriptions of major statutes affecting surface water management in California. CVPIA The Central Valley Project Improvement Act (Title 34 of PL 102-575) made significant changes to the CVP's legislative authorization, amending the project's purposes to place fish and wildlife mitigation and restoration on a par with water supply, and to place fish and wildlife enhancement on a par with power generation. Major provisions of the act are summarized below. The act prohibits execution of new water supply contracts for purposes other than fish and wildlife (with a few limited exceptions) until all environmental restoration actions specified in the act have been completed. Existing long-term water supply contracts are to be renewed for a 25-year term, with the possibility of subsequent 25-year renewals thereafter. Only interim contract renewals are allowed until the prognimmatic EIS required by the act is completed. Renewed contracts are to incorporate CVPIA's new requirements, such as Restoration Fund payments. The act allows transfers of project water to users outside of the CVP service area, under numerous specified conditions. The conditions include a right of first refusal to a proposed transfer by existing CVP water users (under the same terms and conditions specified in the proposed transfer), and a requirement that proposed transfers of more than 20 percent of a contracting agency's project water supply be subject to review and approval by the contracting agency. The act requires DOl to develop water conservation criteria, and to review conservation plans submitted by contracting agencies pursuant to Reclamation Reform Act requirements for conformance to the CVPIA criteria. Tiered pricing is to be included in CVP water supply contracts when they are renewed. Project water supply and repayment contractors' surface water delivery systems are to be equipped with water measurement devices. The act directs DOl to develop a program, by October 1995, to make all reasonable efforts to double, by 2002, natural production (based on 1967-1991 fishery population levels) of 2A-18 ~ I I L B ~