2015 INFORMATIONAL AND OVERSIGHT HEARING SUMMARY

February 11, 2015

Oversight hearing: SB 4 (2013) Implementation: Well Stimulation in California

• 2/11/15 Agenda
• 2/11/15 Background
• 2/11/15 California Council on Science and Technology Briefing Paper
• 2/11/15 California Council on Science and Technology Executive Summary Volume 1
• 2/11/15 Department of Conervation Division of Oil, Gas and Geothermal Resources Progress Report
• 2/11/15 Video Recording of Hearing

Tuesday, February 24, 2015

Joint Informational and Oversight Hearing: Senate Natural Resources and Water and Assembly Water, Parks and Wildlife

California State Park Reforms - The Final Report From The Parks Forward Commission

• 2/24/15 Agenda
• 2/24/15 Background
• 2/24/15 Sam Hodder Testimony
• 2/24/15 Jose Gonzalez: As California grows, our parks must keep pace
• 2/24/15 Robert Doyle Testimony
• 2/24/15 California State Park Reforms - The Final Report
• 2/24/15 Video Recording of Hearing

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Joint Oversight Hearing: Senate Natural Resources and Water and Senate Governance and Finance

Strategies and Innovations in Financing Local Stormwater and Dry Weather Runoff Improvements

• 2/25/15 Agenda
• 2/25/15 Background
• 2/25/15 Ellen Hanak Handout
• 2/25/15 Martin Adams Handout
• 2/25/15 Dr. Nancy Steele Handout
• 2/25/15 Bloome Handout #1
• 2/25/15 Bloome Handout #2
• 2/25/15 Andrea Roess Handout
• 2/25/15 Gary Hildebrand Handout
• 2/25/15 Video Recording of Hearing

Tuesday, March 10, 2015

Joint Oversight Hearing: Senate Natural Resource and Water and Environmental Quality Committees

"Ensuring Groundwater Protection: Is the Underground Injection Control Program Working?"

• 3/10/15 Agenda
• 3/10/15 Background
• 3/10/15 DOGGR Powerpoint
• 3/10/15 September 1982 US EPA Primacy Agreement 1
• 3/10/15 December 1982 US EPA Primacy Agreement 2
• 3/10/15 1985 US EPA Letter to Western Oil and Gas Association specifying 11 aquifers in question are exempt
• 3/10/15 2010 internal memo from DOGGR supervisor to DOGGR personnel
• 3/10/15 2011 SB 855 annual report
• 3/10/15 2011 letter re: US EPA Audit
• 3/10/15 Executive Summary of 2011 EPA Audit
• 3/10/15 2012 DOGGR "Road Map"
• 3/10/15 November 2012 Action Plan from DOGR to US EPA
• 3/10/15 June 2014 GAO Report Executive Summary
• 3/10/15 July 2014 US EPA letter to DOGGR
• 3/10/15 December 2014 US EPA letter to DOGGR
• 3/10/15 August 2014 Work Plan
• 3/10/15 February 6, 2015 DOGGR letter to US EPA and Work Plan for coming into compliance by February, 2017
• 3/10/15 Cal EPA review of the UIC Program
• 3/10/15 EAP Response Letter to UIC Hearing Invitation
• 3/10/15 Public Comment
• 3/10/15 Video Recording of Hearing

Tuesday, May 12, 2015

Joint Oversight Hearing: Senate Natural Resources and Water and Subcommittee No. 2: Resources

"The Administration's Response to the Drought: Challenges and Opportunities"

• 5/12/15 Agenda
• 5/12/15 Executive Order B-29-15
• 5/12/15 Water Boards Media Release
• 5/12/15 Water Boards Fact Sheet
• 5/12/15 Letter to Governor Brown from Pro Tem and various Senators
• 5/12/15 UCLA Water Resources Group Power Point
• 5/12/15 Video Recording of Hearing

Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Joint Informational Hearing: Senate Natural Resources and Water and Assembly Natural Resources Committees

Hydraulic Fracturing and Well Stimulation Treatments in California - What the Science Says

• 8/25/15 Agenda
• 8/25/15 Video of hearing
• 8/25/15 California Natural Resources Agency Release
• 8/25/15 California Council on Science and Technology handout
• 8/25/15 An Independend Scientific Assessment of Well Stimulation in California - Executive Summary
• 8/25/15 Californians Against Fracking Handout
• 8/25/15 McCamy written comment
• 8/25/15 Chiang written comment
• 8/25/15 Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments written comment

Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Informational Hearing Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee

"Flood Management in California: Are We Ready For El Nino?"

• 10/28/15 Flyer
• 10/28/15 Agenda
• 10/28/15 Video of Hearing
• 10/28/15 William Patzert, JPL Research Scientist
• 10/28/15 Salomon Miranda, P.E., M.S., Southern Region National Flood Insurance Program Coordinator
• 10/28/15 Gary Hildebrand, Deputy Director, Water Resources, Los Angeles Department of Public Works

Monday, November 16, 2015

Informational Hearing: "California's Water Challenges in the 21st Century: Assessing California's Chronically Under Funded Water Needs"

• Agenda
• 11/16/15 Video of Hearing
• 11/16/15 California Water Foundation, Lester Snow, Stormwater slideshow
• 11/16/15 California Water Foundation, Lester Snow, Safe Drinking Water infographic
• 11/16/15 Public Policy Insitute of California, Ellen Hanak Paying for Water
• 11/16/15 Public Policy Insitute of California, Ellen Hanak, Paying for Water brief
• 11/16/15 Community Water Center, Laurel Firestone
• 11/16/15 Central Valley Flood Control Association, Melinda Terry testimony
• 11/16/15 California Water and Environment Policy Committee, Xavier Irias testimony