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Bulletin 160-98 Public Review Draft 003J81 Appendix 2A. Institutional Framework for Allocating and Managing Water Resources in California specified anadromous fish in the Central Valley, and to implement that program, [A portion of the San Joaquin River is exempted from this provision.] The act dedicates 800 TAF ofCVP yield to fish and wildlife purposes, and authorizes DOl to acquire supplemental water for meeting the fish doubling goaL The act further requires an annual Trinity River instream flow of at least 340 TAF through 1996, with subsequent instream flow requirements to be determined by a USFWS instream flow study. The act requires DOl to provide, from CVP supplies, firm water supplies (i.e., deliver water corresponding to existing non-firm supplies such as agricultural drainage) to specified federal, state, and private wildlife refuges in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys. DOl is to acquire, from willing sellers, an additional increment of water supply for the wildlife areas, corresponding to their full habitat development needs, All of the supplemental water needs are to be met by 2002. The act requires DOL to implement numerous specified environmental restoration actions, such as constructing a temperature control device at Shasta Dam, remedying fish passage problems at Red Bluff Diversion Dam, replenishing spawning gravel, and assisting in screening non-federal diversions. Costs of some of these restoration actions are allocated in part to the State of California. DOl is required to enter into a cost-sharing agreement with California for the environmental restoration actions whose costs are allocated in part to California. The act requires DOL to prepare specified reports and studies, to implement a Central Valley fish and wildlife monitoring program, and to develop ecosystem and water operations models. Examples of reports to be prepared include a least-cost plan to replace the 800 T AF of project yield dedicated to environmental purposes, and an evaluation of water supply and development requirements for 120,000 acres of wetlands identified in a Central Valley Habitat Joint Venture report. DOl is also directed to prepare, by October 1995, a programmatic EIS analyzing impacts of CVPIA implementation. The act authorizes DOl to carry out a land retirement program, and specifies categories of land that may be acquired. San Joaquin Valley drainage-impaired lands are among the authorized categories, The act establishes a CVPIA Restoration Fund within the federal treasury, and directs DOl to collect mitigation and restoration payments from project water and power users. DOl is 2A-19