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Bureau of Reclamation: California Federal Bay-Delta (CALFED)

This federal-state-local program aims to improve long-term management of the water and ecosystems of California's Central Valley, focusing on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta. The program studies, monitors, and implements actions to improve water quality, water supply, ecosystem health, and levee stability.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Adequate

This rating describes a program that needs to set more ambitious goals, achieve better results, improve accountability or strengthen its management practices.
  • Enactment of the Calfed Bay-Delta Authorization Act in 2004 re-authorized the program and established clear long-term goals, targets and cost-share criteria, authorized resources to achieve those goals, and addressed challenges regarding governance, coordination, and oversight.
  • The program has had challenges with its inter-agency governance structure, especially with budget and program oversight. It is too early to tell whether recent changes to this structure will improve program performance and oversight.
  • Not all federal entities are equally dedicated to achieving program goals. In addition, local project partners have not been as forthcoming as necessary to secure long-term success of certain program elements, especially the water storage program.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Suspending any storage study that at the time of its Draft Feasibility Study does not have a committed local cost-share partner and identified beneficiaries should the project be built.
  • Initiating an independent science board review of the CALFED Program performance measures and targets to determine whether the Program is achieving intended results.
  • Implementing the CALFED Act's Section 105 mandate that the Secretary of the Interior in consultation with the Governor determine whether the program is making 'balanced progress'.

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