[Federal Register Volume 67, Number 39 (Wednesday, February 27, 2002)]
[Notices]
[Pages 9003-9004]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 02-4678]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation


Central Valley Project Improvement Act, Water Management Plans

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The following Water Management Plans are available for review:

Panoche Water District
Madera Irrigation District
Goleta Water District
Mercy Springs Water District
Arvin-Edison Water District
West Side Irrigation District

    To meet the requirements of the Central Valley Project Improvement 
Act of 1992 (CVPIA) and the Reclamation Reform Act of 1982, the Bureau 
of Reclamation (Reclamation) developed and published the Criteria for 
Evaluating Water Management Plans (Criteria). Note: For the purpose of 
this announcement, Water Management Plans are considered the same as 
Water Conservation Plans. The above entitie(s) have developed a Water 
Management Plan (Plan), which reclamation has evaluated and 
preliminarily determined to meet the requirements of these Criteria. 
Reclamation is publishing this notice to allow the public to comment on 
the preliminary determinations. Public comment on Reclamation's 
preliminary (i.e., draft) determination is invited at this time.

DATES: All public comments must be received by March 29, 2002.

ADDRESSES: Please mail comments to Bryce White, Bureau of Reclamation, 
2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, California 95825, or contact at (916) 
978-5208, or e-mail at [email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To be placed on a mailing list for any 
subsequent information, please contact Bryce White at the e-mail 
address above, or by telephone at 916-978-5208 (TDD 978-5608).

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We are inviting the public to comment on our 
preliminary (i.e., draft) determination of Water Management Plan 
adequacy. Section 3405(e) of the CVPIA (Title 34 Public Law 102-575), 
requires the Secretary of the Interior to establish and administer an 
office on Central Valley Project water conservation best management 
practices that shall * * * develop criteria for evaluating the adequacy 
of all water conservation plans developed by project contractors, 
including those plans required by section 210 of the Reclamation Reform 
Act of 1982.'' Also, according to section 3405(e)(1), these criteria 
must be developed ``* * *with the purpose of promoting the highest 
level of water use efficiency reasonably achievable by project 
contractors using best available cost-effective technology and best 
management practices.'' These criteria state that all parties 
(Contractors) that contract with Reclamation for water supplies 
(municipal and industrial contracts over 2,000 acre-feet and 
agricultural contracts over 2,000 irrigable acres) must prepare Plans 
that contain the following information:

1. Description of the District
2. Inventory of Water Resources
3. Best Management Practices (BMPs) for Agricultural Contractors
4. BMPs for Urban Contractors
5. Plan Implementation

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6. Exemption Process
7. Regional Criteria
8. Five-Year Revisions

    Reclamation will evaluate Water Management Plans based on these 
criteria. Our practice is to make comments, including names and home 
addresses of respondents, available for public review. Individual 
respondents may request that we withhold their home address from public 
disclosure, which we will honor to the extent allowable by law. There 
also may be circumstances in which we would withhold a respondent's 
identity from public disclosure, as allowable by law. If you wish us to 
withhold your name and/or address, you must state this prominently at 
the beginning of your comment. We will make all submissions from 
organizations or businesses, and from individuals identifying 
themselves as representatives or officials of organizations or 
businesses, available for public disclosure in their entirety.
    A copy of these Plans will be available for review at Reclamation's 
Mid-Pacific (MP) Regional Office located in Sacramento, California, and 
MP's South-Central California Area Office located in Fresno, 
California. If you wish to review a copy of these Plans, please contact 
Mr. White to find the office nearest you.

    Dated: November 5, 2001.
John F. Davis,
Regional Resources Manager.
[FR Doc. 02-4678 Filed 2-26-02; 8:45 am]
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