DATE: February 4, 2020
TO: Board of Supervisors
SUBMITTED BY: Steven E. White, Director
Department of Public Works and Planning
SUBJECT: Retroactive Authorization for Sustainable Groundwater Management Grant Program's Planning Grant Round 3 with California Department of Water Resources for the Delta-Mendota Groundwater Subbasin
RECOMMENDED ACTION(S):
TITLE
Adopt Resolution Retroactively Authorizing West Stanislaus Irrigation District to Apply for a grant under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Grant Program's Planning Grant - Round 3 and to execute all documents necessary to obtain a grant for the Delta-Mendota Groundwater Subbasin Supplemental Groundwater Sustainability Plan development proposal.
REPORT
Approval of the recommended action will authorize the West Stanislaus Irrigation District (WSID) Groundwater Sustainability Agency (GSA)to apply for a grant under the Sustainable Groundwater Management (SGM) Grant Program's Proposition 68 Planning Grant - Round 3 (Grant Program) and to execute all documents necessary to obtain a grant for the Delta-Mendota (DM) Subbasin Supplemental Groundwater Sustainability Plan (GSP) Development Proposal. The grant will fund activities associated with the development or implementation of a GSP(s) that will comply with and meet DWR requirements and GSP regulations. This item pertains to locations in District 1.
ALTERNATIVE ACTION(S):
Your Board may determine not to approve the recommended action; however, it would likely result in increased overall costs as the grant reimbursement from DWR would not be awarded.
FISCAL IMPACT:
There is no increase in Net County Cost associated with the recommended action. On November 13, 2019, the grant application was submitted by the Authority to meet the November 15, 2019 deadline. The award list will be released in March of 2020. If the grant is awarded, the County is expected to receive approximately $40,000 for supplemental GSP development. If the funding is awarded,...
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