![]() ![]() In October 2021, a federal judge issued an Order Vacating the Trump Rule. The Biden administration has initiated a new rulemaking to substantially unravel the Trump-era Rule. That rule gutted the ability of states to protect water quality, including flow. Many of the arguments in the Districts’ and the City’s February 2021 petitions to the Board were grounded in a Rule concerning water quality certifications the that Trump administration implemented in 2020. In February 2021, CSPA and allies petitioned the Board to reconsider two narrow issues in the WQC: June flows in the lower 26 miles of the river, and the amount of augmentation of large wood the WQC requires.Īlso in February 2021, the license holders of the projects, Turlock Irrigation District and Modesto Irrigation District (Districts), as well as the City and County of San Francisco (City) and the Bay Area Water Supply and Conservation Agency (BAWSCA), filed voluminous petitions for reconsideration asking the Board to rescind the WQC entirely. Ongoing litigation by CSPA and others could increase Tuolumne River flows even further. As it stands today, the WQC would require substantially increased flows in the lower 52 miles of the Tuolumne River. ![]() The State Water Resources Control Board (Board) issued the WQC in January 2021. CSPA and ten allied conservation groups filed comments on Januin overall support of the Water Quality Certification (WQC) for the relicensing of the Don Pedro and La Grange hydroelectric projects on the Tuolumne River.
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