SUBCOMMITTEE ON WATER AND POWER
1324 Longworth House Office Building
Tuesday, September 25, 2007
10:00 a.m.
LEGISLATIVE HEARING ON:
- H.R. 123 (Dreier): To authorize appropriations for the San Gabriel Basin Restoration Fund.
- H.R. 2498 (Costa): To provide for a study regarding development of a comprehensive integrated regional water management plan that would address four general areas of regional water planning in both the San Joaquin River Hydrologic Region and the Tulare Lake Hydrologic Region, inclusive of Kern, Tulare, Kings, Fresno, Madera, Merced, Stanislaus, and San Joaquin Counties, California, and to provide that such plan be the guide by which those counties use as a mechanism to address and solve long-term water needs in a sustainable and equitable manner.
- H.R. 2535 (Nunes): To direct the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a study on the feasibility and suitability of constructing a storage reservoir, outlet works, and a delivery system for the Tule River Indian Tribe of California to provide a water supply for domestic, municipal, industrial, and agricultural purposes, and for other purposes. "Tule River Tribe Water Development Act"
WITNESSES & TESTIMONY:
Panel I
Robert Quint
Acting Deputy Commissioner for Operations
Bureau of Reclamation
Washington, D.C.
Michael Whitehead
President
San Gabriel Valley Water Company
Board member
San Gabriel Basin Water Quality Authority
West Covina, CA
Donald Jensen
Director of Public Works
Santa Fe Springs, CA
* Mr. Jensen will also be accompanied by Art Aguilar, General Manager of the Central Basin Municipal Water District
Panel II (H.R. 2498 and H.R. 2535)
Robert Quint
Acting Deputy Commissioner for Operations
Bureau of Reclamation
Washington, D.C.
Sargeant "Sarge" Green
Manager
Westside Resource Conservation District
Consultant to the California Water Institute
Fresno, CA
Richard M. Moss, P.E.
Provost & Pritchard Engineering Group, Inc.
Visalia, CA
Alec Garfield
Director
Water Resources Department
Tule River Tribal Council
Porterville, CA
Philip Gregg Larson
President
South Tule Independent Ditch Company
Porterville, CA
