BILL NUMBER: AJR 38	ENROLLED
	BILL TEXT

	ADOPTED IN SENATE  AUGUST 18, 2010
	ADOPTED IN ASSEMBLY  AUGUST 20, 2010
	AMENDED IN SENATE  AUGUST 16, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 24, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 20, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  MAY 13, 2010
	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 22, 2010

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Members Caballero, Fuller, and Arambula
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Adams, Anderson, Beall, Bill
Berryhill, Tom Berryhill, Blakeslee, Block, Blumenfield, Bradford,
Brownley, Charles Calderon, Carter, Conway, Cook, Coto, Davis, De La
Torre, De Leon, DeVore, Emmerson, Eng, Feuer, Fletcher, Fuentes,
Furutani, Galgiani, Garrick, Gilmore, Hagman, Harkey, Hayashi, Hill,
Huffman, Jeffries, Jones, Lieu, Bonnie Lowenthal, Ma, Mendoza,
Miller, Monning, Nestande, Nielsen, John A. Perez, V. Manuel Perez,
Portantino, Ruskin, Salas, Silva, Skinner, Smyth, Solorio, Audra
Strickland, Swanson, Torres, Torrico, and Tran)

                        FEBRUARY 25, 2010

   Relative to public resources.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AJR 38, Caballero. Public resources: Two-Gates Fish Protection
Demonstration Project.
   This measure would request the United States Department of the
Interior to complete, as soon as possible, its study of the Two-Gates
Fish Protection Demonstration Project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta.



   WHEREAS, From 2007 to 2009, inclusive, California experienced a
severe drought that adversely affected water supplies in many parts
of the state, including water exported from the Sacramento-San
Joaquin Delta (Delta) by the State Water Project (SWP) and the
federal Central Valley Project (CVP), and also adversely affected the
environment, including commercially valuable fish species; and
   WHEREAS, While most of the 2009 SWP and CVP water delivery
reductions resulted from the multiyear drought, some additional
reductions were made to protect state and federally listed smelt,
salmon, and steelhead species native to the Delta, pursuant to
federal biological opinions required by the federal Endangered
Species Act; and
   WHEREAS, In 2009, the combination of recession, drought, water
supply reductions, and other hardships contributed to significant
local unemployment and economic dislocation in rural farming
communities on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley, affecting
farmworkers, agriculture-related jobs, and small businesses; and
   WHEREAS, Water shortages during the drought of 2007 to 2009,
inclusive, and the adverse economic, social, and environmental
effects resulting from those shortages, underscore the need for
California to do everything possible to manage our limited water
resources efficiently, carefully, and responsibly; and
   WHEREAS, Currently, scientific studies of the causes of declines
in populations of fish species in the Delta are ongoing and continue
to further our understanding of the delicate environmental balance in
the Delta and the influences of the various stressors affecting
these populations; and
   WHEREAS, While there are many projects to be considered in working
to protect and recover fish populations in the Delta, the
Legislature urges expedient consideration of the Two-Gates Fish
Protection Demonstration Project. With $28,000,000 of funding for the
project allocated as part of Proposition 84 (Senate Bill 1, Chapter
5 of the Seventh Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 2009) and
additional funding available from a combination of federal and
private funds, this experimental project proposes to install barriers
and gates that could reduce the loss of Delta smelt at state and
federal pumps; and
   WHEREAS, While information about how the Two-Gates Fish Protection
Demonstration Project will affect Delta smelt and other imperiled
fish species is currently unclear, the project presents a creative
option that should be expeditiously analyzed and, if viable,
implemented; and
   WHEREAS, In light of the importance of the Delta estuary, its
fisheries, the millions of Californians who depend on the Delta for
drinking water, and the millions of acres of prime farmland that
depend on the Delta for irrigation, there is great urgency to
identify and implement programs and projects that advance California'
s coequal goals of protecting and restoring the Delta ecosystem while
ensuring a reliable water supply for California; now, therefore, be
it
   Resolved by the Assembly and the Senate of the State of
California, jointly, That the Legislature requests the United States
Department of the Interior to complete, as soon as possible its study
of the Two-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project in the
Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta; and be it further
   Resolved, That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of
this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.