Agency News
Jim McGrath, former Environmental Manager at the Port of Oakland, has been appointed to the SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board; 4 vacancies remain out of nine positions. BPC members are encouraged to submit names of prospective nominees to Executive Director Johnck, who is developing a list of endorsed candidates for recommendation to the Governor [submit names]
SF Bay Regional Water Quality Control Board has released for public comment a revised proposed Basin Plan amendment to establish a total maximum daily load (TMDL) for PCBs in San Francisco Bay and related implementation plan, and has added an additional 45-day comment period on the revised documents [more]
Gov. Schwarzenegger's Transportation Bond Program Allocation Status updates [more]
Gov. Schwarzenegger's Blue Ribbon Task Force on the Delta Vision issues its findings and report [more]
USACE announces the publication of ERDC TN-DOER-D9,
"Manufactured Soil Field Demonstration for Constructing Wetlands to Treat Acid Mine Drainage on Abandoned Minelands." Download this and other ERDC reports from the USACE website.
The Bay Area Air Quality Management District has begun a series of workshops to discuss a District regulation that will be developed over the next several months and will require emission inventories and emission reduction plans for Bay Area seaports [meeting notice] [regulation draft]
The California State Coastal Conservancy is the CEQA Lead Agency for the San Francisco Bay Area Water Trail Plan. Trailheads are being considered for 112 locations in 9 Bay Area counties. The Notice of Preparation, Initial Study, and Water Trail Plan are available for review on their website. Written responses to the Notice of Preparation must be received no later than 30 days after December 23, 2007. Please send your response to California State Coastal Conservancy, attn. Ann Buell [more]
BCDC has posted a Notice of Proposed Amendments to Regulations that Govern Dredging [more]
USACE has published the results of the first year of a three-year salmon tracking study. The study is a collaboration among USACE (funded by the LTMS Environmental Windows program), BPC members (Port of San Francisco, Oakland, Stockton and Paradise Cay Homeowners Association) and UC Davis. The goal is to determine the speed and travel pathways of winter chinook salmon thereby building a base of scientific information to support the state and federal fishery agencies' decisionmaking on dredging and related marine construction [more]
Bruce Flushman of Wendel Rosen reports that USACE and USEPA have extended the comment period for Post-Rapanos Wetland Guidance [more]
CA Department of Fish & Game has a Herring weekly report on the SF Herring Information Hotline: 650-631-6784 or send an email to Ryan Watanabe (rwatanabe@dfg.ca.gov) or visit www.dfg.ca.gov/marine
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