WATER SUPPLY PLANNING COMMITTEE
ITEM:		ACTION ITEMS
3.	REVIEW AND DEVELOP RECOMMENDATION ON MPWMD RESPONSE OR POSITION ON CALIFORNIA AMERICAN WATER CPUC APPLICATION FOR MONTEREY PENINSULA WATER SUPPLY PROJECT
Meeting Date:			May 7, 2012	Budgeted:	N/A
From:			David J. Stoldt,	Program/	N/A
			General Manager	Line Item No.:
Prepared By:			David J. Stoldt	Cost Estimate:	N/A
General Counsel Review: N/A
Committee Recommendation: N/A
CEQA Compliance: N/A

SUMMARY: On Monday April 23, 2012 Cal-Am submitted a new application for new water supply to the CPUC. The District must protest or respond by May 25, 2012 to be included in the proceedings. The District must decide whether to become a Party, an Intervener, or take no action.

RECOMMENDATION: The General Manager recommends that the Committee discuss and recommend a position for Board Approval at the May 21, 2012 Board meeting.

DISCUSSION: The application was posted on the CPUC Daily Calendar on April 25, 2012 and assigned an application number A.12-04-019. Protests or Responses must be filed and served within 30 days of the date the notice of the filing of the application first appears in the Daily Calendar (CPUC Rule 2.6(a)), hence the deadline is May 25, 2012.

The District will likely want to endorse the groundwater replenishment and aquifer storage and recovery components, but must decide if it wants to state a position with respect to desalination.

A copy of Cal-Am’s overview is attached as the basis of discussion at the Committee meeting.

EXHIBITS

3-A Cal-Am Presentation on the Monterey Peninsula Water Supply Project

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