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February 20, 2020 - BAKERSFIELD, CA - On Wednesday, U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt joined President Donald Trump and other federal officials in Bakersfield, California for the signing of a Presidential Memorandum supporting more water development and delivery in California.

"President Trump gave the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce clear direction to move forward and provide water to California’s communities and farms,” said U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt. “Today’s action furthers President Trump’s commitment to America’s hardworking farmers who need water to feed our nation."

"President Trump told us to make water in the west more reliable, and the Bureau of Reclamation is doing just that," said Brenda Burman, Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. "Working with partners in California, and using the best available science, we will implement new biological opinions to modernize Central Valley Project operations. We've worked hard with our partners to get here, but President Trump has called on us today to do more, so we'll be out there every day with our partners working to make sure farms, families, communities and fish and wildlife have the water they need to thrive."

"Thanks to President Trump's commitment to delivering a more certain and reliable water supply to the west, the farmers, families and communities of the Central Valley will have a greater opportunity to thrive," said Aurelia Skipwith, Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. "The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, working collaboratively with our partners, has helped move us into the 21st century by using new and real-time science that creates greater efficiency in our water delivery, while addressing the specific needs of protected species and habitats."

The Presidential Memorandum on Developing and Delivering More Water Supplies in California directs the Secretaries of the Interior and Commerce and the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality to help deliver and develop more water supplies in California’s Central Valley. Through coordinated efforts, the federal agencies are directed to capture and store more water and provide greater regulatory certainty to agricultural and municipal water users, while improving programs to protect endangered species.

BACKGROUND

The Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Reclamation issued a new operations plan, which will maximize water deliveries and optimize power generation for communities and farms in California and implement improved measures to protect endangered species and their habitats in the Central Valley.

Issued in 2018, the President’s previous Memorandum on Promoting the Reliable Supply and Delivery of Water in the West directed the Department of the Interior and the Department of Commerce to complete a new operations plan to address the fragmented regulation of water infrastructure in California and address inefficiencies, burdens and conflicts in water delivery. The new operations plan brings greater efficiency to water delivery by modifying the coordinated long-term operations of the federally-owned and operated Central Valley Project and the California-owned and operated State Water Project.


President Donald J. Trump Releases Memorandum on Developing and Delivering More Water Supplies in California

February 20, 2020 - President Donald J. Trump releases memorandum on developing and delivering more water supplies in California:

MEMORANDUM FOR THE SECRETARY OF THE INTERIOR
THE SECRETARY OF COMMERCE
THE CHAIR OF THE COUNCIL ON ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

SUBJECT:    Developing and Delivering More Water Supplies in California

donald trump official photoBy the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, I hereby direct the following:

Section 1.  Policy.  For decades, many of our Federal western water infrastructure investments have been undermined by fragmented and outdated regulatory actions.  In a memorandum dated October 19, 2018 (Promoting the Reliable Supply and Delivery of Water in the West), I directed the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce to work together, to the extent practicable and consistent with applicable law, to complete the review of the long-term coordinated operations of the Central Valley Project (CVP) and the California State Water Project (SWP), and subsequently to issue an updated Plan of Operations (Plan) and Record of Decision (ROD).  It is the policy of the United States to modernize our Federal western water infrastructure to deliver water and power in an efficient, cost-effective way.

Sec2.  Enhancing Water Supplies While Appropriately Protecting Species and Habitats.  In response to my memorandum, a Plan and ROD were issued today.  The new framework set forth in these documents is expected to deliver more water to communities while using science and investments appropriately to protect affected species and their habitats.  This is a good first step, but I believe more can be done.  Therefore, I direct the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Commerce to build upon the success of the Plan and ROD by supplementing the resulting operations, consistent with applicable law, to make deliveries of water more reliable and bountiful.  To help develop and deliver water supplies in the Central Valley of California, I direct those Secretaries to coordinate efforts to:

(a)  implement the relevant authorities of subtitle J of the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act (Public Law 114-322), which include provisions focused on (1) developing water storage, (2) capturing more water during storm events, and (3) giving agricultural and municipal water users more regulatory certainty;

(b)  fully implement, with respect to future agency actions, recent Administration improvements to management of programs established pursuant to the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (Public Law 93-205); and

(c)  provide quarterly updates to the Chair of the Council on Environmental Quality and, at the request of other components of the Executive Office of the President, to each such component, regarding progress in carrying out sections 2(a) and (b) of this memorandum.

Sec3.  General Provisions (a)  Nothing in this memorandum shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect:

(i)   the authority granted by law to an executive department or agency, or the head thereof; or

(ii)  the functions of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or legislative proposals.

(b)  This memorandum shall be implemented consistent with applicable law and subject to the availability of appropriations.

(c)  This memorandum is not intended to, and does not, create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in equity by any party against the United States, its departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.

(d)  The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the Federal Register.

DONALD J. TRUMP
Source: Office of the White House