[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 116 (Monday, June 18, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 33514-33515]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-11689]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR

Bureau of Reclamation


Regional Water Management Plan for the Sacramento River 
Contractors

AGENCY: Bureau of Reclamation, Interior.

ACTION: Notice of availability.

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SUMMARY: The Regional Water Management Plan for the Sacramento River 
Contractors (Regional Plan) is available for review. Participating 
Contractors include:
     Anderson-Cottonwood Irrigation District
     Meridian Farms Water Company
     Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District
     Sutter Mutual Water Company
     Provident Irrigation District
     Pelger Mutual Water Company
     Princeton-Codora-Glenn Irrigation District
     Natomas Central Mutual Water Company
     Reclamation District No. 108
     Reclamation District No. 1004
    Under the authority 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 Regional Criteria 
for Evaluating Water Management Plans for the Sacramento River 
Contractors (Regional Criteria) in 2004. The development and 
implementation of the Regional Criteria for the Sacramento Valley was 
an alternative pilot program to the current Standard Criteria for 
Evaluating Water Management Plans (Standard Criteria), as stated in the 
Water Conservation Administrative Proposal dated March 20, 1997. If the 
Contracting Officer deems this pilot program to be unsuccessful, the 
Regional Criteria will be discontinued. All subsequent Plans would then 
be evaluated under the current Standard Criteria. The above entities 
have developed the Regional Plan, which Reclamation has evaluated and 
preliminarily determined to meet the requirements of the Regional 
Criteria.

DATES: All public comments must be received by August 2, 2007.

ADDRESSES: Please mail comments to Ms. Laurie Sharp, Bureau of 
Reclamation, 2800 Cottage Way, Sacramento, California, 95825, or 
contact Ms. Sharp at 916-978-5232 (TDD 978-5608), or e-mail at 
[email protected].

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: To be placed on a mailing list for any 
subsequent information, please contact Ms. Laurie Sharp at the 
telephone number or e-mail address above.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: We are inviting the public to comment on the 
preliminary (i.e., draft) determination of Regional Plan adequacy. In 
September 1995, the Department of the Interior (Interior) invited the 
public to identify any concerns they had regarding implementation of 
the CVPIA (Title XXXIV of Public Law 102-575). To that end, Interior 
circulated a draft Administrative Proposal on Water Conservation 
Criteria on May 13, 1996. One concern that came to light was the 
applicability of Best Management Practices (BMPs) in different regions. 
Some water users had argued that it is inappropriate to establish a 
single set of criteria for water conservation plans in the CVP service 
area due to regional variations. In response to this comment, Interior 
developed Regional Criteria. The Regional Criteria state that the 
following are excepted from the requirement to prepare a Plan using 
these Regional Criteria:
     All contractors that receive only irrigation water from 
any Federal Reclamation project and deliver said water to less than 
2,000 acres of land.
     All contractors that receive less than an annual average 
of 2,000 acre-feet from any Federal Reclamation project.
    The Regional Plan contains the following information:

1. Description of the Region Covered by the Plan
2. Inventory of Water Resources
3. Identify Regional Water Measurement Program
4. Analyze Water Management Quantifiable Objectives (QOs)
5. Identify Actions to Implement and Achieve Proposed QOs
6. Establish Monitoring Program
7. Budget and Allocation of Regional Cost
8. Regional Plan Coordination
9. Five-Year Plan Revision Procedure

    Reclamation evaluated the Regional Plan based on the Regional 
Criteria. A copy of the Regional Plan will be available for review at 
Reclamation's Mid-Pacific Regional Office located in Sacramento, 
California, and the Northern California Area Office located in Willows, 
California. Comments received in response to this notice will become 
part of the administrative record and are subject to public inspection. 
Our practice is to make comments, including names, home addresses, home 
phone numbers, and email addresses of respondents, available for public 
review. Individual respondents may request that we withhold their names 
and/or home addresses, etc., but if you would like us to consider 
withholding this information, you must state this prominently at the 
beginning of your comments. In addition, you must present a rationale 
for withholding this information. This rationale must demonstrate that 
disclosure would constitute a clearly unwarranted

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invasion of privacy. Unsupported assertions will not meet this burden. 
In the absence of exceptional, documentable circumstances, this 
information will be released. We will always make submissions from 
organizations or businesses, or from individuals identifying themselves 
as representatives or officials of organizations or businesses, 
available for public inspection in their entirety. If you wish to 
review a copy of the Regional Plans, please contact Ms. Laurie Sharp to 
find the office nearest you.

    Dated: May 9, 2007.
Richard J. Woodley,
Regional Resources Manager, Mid-Pacific Region, Bureau of Reclamation.
[FR Doc. E7-11689 Filed 6-15-07; 8:45 am]
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