NOTICE OF SCOPING MEETING: Possible Amendment of the Bay-Delta Plan to Incorporate Voluntary Agreement for the Tuolumne River

From the State Water Resources Control Board:

The State Water Resources Control Board will be the lead agency and is planning to prepare a staff report, including a substitute environmental document (SED) and a report documenting the scientific basis for consideration of potential updates to the Water Quality Control Plan for the San Francisco Bay/Sacramento–San Joaquin Delta Estuary (Bay–Delta Plan) to incorporate a proposed voluntary agreement for the Tuolumne River.  The State Water Board’s water quality control planning program is a certified regulatory program under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) meaning the program is exempt from requirements for preparing environmental impact reports, negative declarations, or initial studies because the SED is recognized under CEQA and the regulations implementing CEQA as providing the functional equivalent.