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Bolster Public Health and Safety to Protect Against Increasing Climate Risks
Progress Indicators
- Scoping: Scoping and organizing action; collecting input and conducting community engagement.
- Securing Funding: Securing funding; beginning project work.
- Underway: Work underway; documentation and reporting in progress.
- Nearing Completion: Work nearing completion.
- Complete: Work complete; shifting to ongoing maintenance, monitoring, evaluation and assessment.
- Ongoing Improvements: Ongoing advancements; continual improvements.
Actions
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Action 1 Reduce health impacts of wildfire smoke.
Success Metric: Launch Smoke Ready California Campaign.
Timeframe: 2021
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Air Resources Board
For More Details: California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Enhance prescribed fire reporting.
Timeframe: 2023
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Air Resources Board
For More Details: California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Develop and make public a wildfire smoke exposure dashboard to quantify the places, duration, and severity of wildfire smoke exposure across California, as part of the Climate Change and Health Vulnerability Indicators for California.
Timeframe: 2022
Agency: Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health | Natural Resources Agency - Department of Forestry and Fire Protection | Governor’s Office of Planning and Research
For More Details: Climate Change and Health Equity Section; California’s Wildfire and Forest Resilience Action Plan
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Conduct research on the health impacts of wildfire smoke and mitigation strategies to protect vulnerable populations.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment | Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health
For More Details: Climate Change and Health Equity Section; Environmental Health Investigations Branch; Emergency Preparedness Office
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Update and release WILDFIRE SMOKE: Considerations for California’s Public Health Officials, to help local public health officials prepare for smoke events, take measures to protect the public when smoke is present, and communicate with the public about wildfire smoke and health.
Timeframe: 2022
Agency: Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health
For More Details: Emergency Preparedness Office
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
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Action 2 Conserve water.
Success Metric: Increased technical assistance and training for improved tracking of water loss to reduce water loss across the state in the urban sector.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: California Statutes Making Conservation a California Way of Life; Making Water Conservation a California Way of Life – Primer of 2018 Legislation on Water Conservation and Drought Planning
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Adoption of new water loss performance standards for urban water suppliers.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: California Statutes Making Conservation a California Way of Life; Making Water Conservation a California Way of Life – Primer of 2018 Legislation on Water Conservation and Drought Planning
Progress Indicator: Complete
Success Metric: Reduction of inefficient water use across the state in the urban sectors.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: California Statutes Making Conservation a California Way of Life; Making Water Conservation a California Way of Life – Primer of 2018 Legislation on Water Conservation and Drought Planning
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Adoption of new standards for outdoor residential water use, outdoor commercial, industrial, and institutional (CII) water use on landscapes with dedicated irrigation meters, and CII performance measures.
Timeframe: Statute directs State Water Board to adopt new standards and performance measures by June 2022
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: State Water Resources Control Board 2021 Strategic Work Plan
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Implement urban water use efficiency standards for urban retail water suppliers.
Timeframe: Beginning January 1, 2024 and annually thereafter, calculation from each urban retail water supplier to be submitted to DWR along with documentation of the implementation of CII performance measures
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Urban Water Use Efficiency Standards and Water Use Objective
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Support land use authorities to improve adoption and reporting of the Model Water Efficiency Landscape Ordinance by updating the regulation to allow for a streamlined implementation.
Timeframe: 2023
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio; Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 3 Help regions improve preparation for drought.
Success Metric: Support for urban water suppliers to develop urban water management plans in examining reliability under a five-consecutive-year drought and planning for a standard set of water shortage levels as part of its water shortage contingency plan.
Timeframe: 2026. Plans are due every five years. Department of Water Resources provides guidance in form of a guidebook, table templates, and workshops for suppliers prior to deadline.
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency - State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio; Water Use Efficiency Program; Urban Water Management Plans
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Guidance for urban water suppliers to meet new requirements of assessing and reporting their upcoming year’s projected water supply and demand annually.
Timeframe: 2022
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio; Water Use Efficiency Data Portal
Progress Indicator: Complete
Success Metric: Support for agricultural water suppliers in developing agricultural water management drought plans and examining drought resilience and response planning.
Timeframe: 2026, plans are due every five years
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio; Agricultural Water Use Efficiency Program
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Maintain and update the Drought and Water Shortage Risk Explorer Tool and scoring indicators for small water systems and rural communities.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: CA Environmental Protection Agency - State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Water Resilience Portfolio; Report to the Legislature on the 2012-16 Drought; Countywide Drought Advisory Group Report to the Legislature (DWR 2021); SB 552 of 2021 (Water Code Sec. 10609.80 et seq.); DWR’s Countywide Drought Planning Program
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Develop a template and associated training for teaching small and tribal water suppliers how to develop a water shortage contingency plan.
Timeframe: January 1, 2023
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources| Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Report to the Legislature on the 2012-16 Drought; Countywide Drought Advisory Group Report to the Legislature (DWR 2021); SB 552 of 2021 (Water Code Sec. 10609.80 et seq.)
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Small and tribal water suppliers serving 1,000 to 2,999 service connections develop and maintain a water shortage contingency plan that includes specified drought-planning elements and implement, subject to funding availability, specified drought resiliency measures, including having at least one backup source of water supply and metering each service connection.
Timeframe: July 1, 2023 and every five years thereafter
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources |Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Report to the Legislature on the 2012-16 Drought; Countywide Drought Advisory Group Report to the Legislature (DWR 2021); SB 552 of 2021 (Water Code Sec. 10609.80 et seq.)
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Small water suppliers, including water systems that serve schools, implement subject to funding availability, specified drought resiliency measures, including having at least one backup source of water supply and metering each service connection.
Timeframe: January 1, 2023 through January 1, 2032
Jan 1, 2023: Implement monitoring systems to detect production well levels, and join or maintain membership in California Water/Wastewater Agency Response Network (CalWARN) or similar organization
Jan 1, 2024: Provide backup power supply
Jan 1, 2027: Have at least one backup water supply source
Jan 1, 2032: Meter each connection and monitor for leaks
Jan 1, 2032: Have source system capacity, treatment system capacity, to meet fire flow needsAgency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board |Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Report to the Legislature on the 2012-16 Drought; Countywide Drought Advisory Group Report to the Legislature (DWR 2021); SB 552 of 2021 (Water Code Sec. 10609.80 et seq.)
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Development of guidance and assistance for small and tribal water suppliers serving fewer than 1,000 service connections to add drought planning elements to their emergency notification or response plan and submit the plan to the State Water Board.
Timeframe: July 1, 2023
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Report to the Legislature on the 2012-16 Drought; Countywide Drought Advisory Group Report to the Legislature (DWR 2021); SB 552 of 2021 (Water Code Sec. 10609.80 et seq.)
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Development of guidance and assistance for counties to establish a standing county drought and water shortage task force and contingency plan to facilitate drought and water shortage preparedness for state small water systems, tribal water systems, and domestic wells within the county’s jurisdiction.
Timeframe: January 1, 2022 for establishing county task forces; ongoing effort for contingency plan development
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Report to the Legislature on the 2012-16 Drought; Countywide Drought Advisory Group Report to the Legislature (DWR 2021); SB 552 of 2021 (Water Code Sec. 10609.80 et seq.)
Progress Indicator: Nearing Completion
Success Metric: Establish a standing interagency drought and water shortage task force to facilitate proactive state planning and coordination, both for pre-drought planning and drought emergency response, to enhance collaboration and consider all water user types.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Report to the Legislature on the 2012-16 Drought; Countywide Drought Advisory Group Report to the Legislature (DWR 2021); SB 552 of 2021 (Water Code Sec. 10609.80 et seq.)
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Increased availability of water to communities, tribal nations, agriculture, and fish and wildlife during periods of drought.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Water Resources | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Drought-related Actions to Protect Fish and Wildlife; Drinking Water Well Principles; Drought Support; California Water Plan: Resource Management Strategies
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 4 Protect groundwater as an important water source for future generations.
Success Metric: Sustainability, as defined in law, in covered groundwater basins.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency - State Water Resources Control Board
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Timeframe: 2040
Agency: Natural Resources Agency - Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Sustainable Groundwater Management Act; California’s Groundwater (Bulletin 118); California’s Groundwater Live; Drinking Water Well Principles
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Develop drought resilience principles and strategies to monitor, analyze, and minimize drought impacts on domestic water wells.
Timeframe: 2022
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources | Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Governor’s State of Emergency Proclamation April 21, 2021; April 2021 Drinking Water Well Principles
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 5 Reduce flood risk in California by helping regions prepare for new flood patterns.
Success Metric: Reduced risks to Californians’ lives and property, even in the face of more extreme precipitation events.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Central Valley Flood Protection Board, San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission
For More Details: Central Valley Flood Protection Plan Conservation Strategy; Statewide Flood Control Subventions Program; Flood Emergency Response Grants Program; California’s Flood Future Report; California Water Plan—flood management resource management strategies; Water Resilience Portfolio; San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission Bay Shoreline Flood Explorer; Department of Water Resources Flood Management
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Implementation of the Central Valley Flood Protection Plan.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Central Valley Flood Protection Board
For More Details: Central Valley Flood Protection Plan; Regional Flood Management Planning Reports
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Achieve and maintain 200-year level of protection in Central Valley urban areas, including the resiliency requirements identified in the Urban Levee Design Criteria.
Timeframe: Ongoing over 10 to 15 years
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Central Valley Flood Protection Board, Local Flood Control Agencies
For More Details: Central Valley Flood Protection Plan; Flood System Status Report; Urban Levee Design Criteria; Senate Bill 5, 2008
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Implement system-wide flood risk reduction projects -- such as weirs and bypass expansions, improved reservoir outlets, increased surface storage, and forecast informed operations -- that modernize and expand system capacity and increase climate and ecosystem resiliency at a regional scale.
Timeframe: Ongoing over 25 to 30 years
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Central Valley Flood Protection Plan; 2007 Flood System Status Report; Yolo Bypass-Cache Slough Partnership of SB 369 of 2021
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Identify and communicate weather patterns and coordinate emergency operations and resources at local, state, tribal, and federal levels.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Bulletin 120, California Data Exchange Center; California Nevada River Forecast Center
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: The availability of multiple tiers of flood insurance policies to expand flood insurance coverage for property owners and renters.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources | Department of Insurance
For More Details: Department of Insurance Climate Insurance Working Group
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Annual flood insurance premiums for property owners are lowered as state agencies document state-led flood risk reduction efforts as part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s National Flood Insurance Program Community Rating System.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Annual California National Flood Insurance Program Community Assistance Program Reports
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Awareness of flood risk and evacuation routes is increased through deployment of new river and rain gauges in recently burned watersheds and creation of forecast-based early warning alert systems.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Flood After Fire California Toolkit
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 6 Protect public health by increasing reliable access to safe, affordable drinking water and sanitation.
Success Metric: Reduction in the number of drinking water systems on the “Human Right to Water” list over time. Specific metrics and tracking are in the yearly Fund Expenditure Plan approved by the Board.
Timeframe: Ongoing. Overall timeframe of the Safe and Affordable Funding for Equity and Resilience program is 10 years. Different goals in the Fund Expenditure Plan have different timeframes
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: SAFER Drinking Water Fund Expenditure Plan
Progress Indicator: Nearing Completion
Success Metric: Reduced timelines for funding projects for water and wastewater systems most at risk to climate change and increase in total number of projects funded per year.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Countywide Drought and Water Shortage Contingency Plans; Water Resilience Portfolio
Progress Indicator: Securing funding; beginning project work
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Action 7 Support local and regional agencies to recycle or reuse water.
Success Metric: Increase recycled water use to at least 2.5 million acre-feet per year.
Timeframe: December 2030
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: State Water Resources Control Board 2021 Strategic Work Plan; Water Quality Control Policy for Recycled Water
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Adoption of Plumbing Code Standard regulations for recycled water use in buildings.
Timeframe: 2021
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources | Building Standards Commission
For More Details: 2021 Triannual Code Adoption Cycle: Rulemaking Documents and Public Comment Periods
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Reuse all dry weather discharge to enclosed bays, estuaries and coastal lagoons, and ocean waters.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: State Water Resources Control Board 2021 Strategic Work Plan; Water Quality Control Policy for Recycled Water
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Maximize reuse where groundwater supplies are in a state of overdraft.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board| Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: State Water Resources Control Board 2021 Strategic Work Plan, Water Quality Control Policy for Recycled Water
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 8 Invest state bond funds in water storage that provides flood control, ecosystem, water quality, emergency response, and recreation benefits.
Success Metric: State agency contracts deliver public benefits from new water storage projects in the Proposition 1 Water Storage Investment Program.
Timeframe: Before final award determination for Water Storage Investment Program projects; timeline varies for each project
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources, Department of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Parks and Recreation, Water Commission | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Proposition 1 Water Storage Investment Program: Funding the Public Benefits of Water Storage Projects
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 9 Support the public health sector’s capacity to address the climate crisis and increase health equity.
Success Metric: Number of local health departments and tribal health or environmental programs receiving technical assistance and staff resources to address climate change as a public health crisis.
Timeframe: 2022 and ongoing
Agency: Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health
For More Details: Climate Change and Health Equity Section
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Models to project climate-related morbidity and mortality in California and tools to assess the health effects of climate-related policy changes.
Timeframe: 2022 and ongoing
Agency: Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health
For More Details: Climate Change and Health Equity Section
Progress Indicator: Securing Funding
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Action 10 Integrate health equity data, tools, and metrics into state climate change-related plans, policies, and investments, to improve health equity outcomes.
Success Metric: Number of state climate change-related plans, policies, and investments incorporating health equity-related data, tools, and metrics.
Timeframe: 2022 and ongoing
Agency: Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health
For More Details: Climate Change and Health Equity Section
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
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Action 11 Minimize toxic chemical exposures associated with climate-related events by providing toxicological expertise and consultation to support state and local decision-making and emergency response.
Success Metric: Fact sheets on most common potential chemical exposures with different types of climate-related events; an online resource developed in collaboration with state/local emergency response partners; participation in emergency planning and response.
Timeframe: Ongoing, with annual updates of online resources for emergency planning and response
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency - Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment | Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health
For More Details: Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment Strategic Plan: 2018 Update; Harmful algal blooms; Notification levels for chemicals in drinking water
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 12 Promote safer sustainable pest management.
Success Metric: Support technical assistance and participation in programs that help develop alternatives and tools farmers need to transition to safer, integrated pest management options. These programs include the Research Grants, Alliance Grants, Biologically Integrated Farming Systems Program, Proactive Integrated Pest Management Solutions Program, and Interregional Research Program Number Four (IR-4), including advanced plant breeding.
Timeframe: Annual reporting
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Pesticide Regulation | Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Proactive Integrated Pest Management Solutions Program; Interregional Research Program Number Four (IR-4); Biologically Integrated Farming Systems Program
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Outreach events and grant funding.
Timeframe: Five years
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Pesticide Regulation | Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Sustainable Pest Management Work Group
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Number of pounds, acres treated with specified pesticides.
Timeframe: Five years
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – Department of Pesticide Regulation
For More Details: Sustainable Pest Management Work Group
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
Success Metric: Update Best Management Practices for pest control via research and on-the ground testing.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Proactive Integrated Pest Management Solutions Program; Interregional Research Program Number Four (IR-4); Biologically Integrated Farming Systems Program
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Reduce need for pesticides to combat invasive species by increasing the technical capacity of border and county pest interception authorities.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services
Progress Indicator: Scoping
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Action 13Protect natural resources and agriculture from invasive species and pests whose impact changes spatially and temporally as a result of climate change.
Success Metric: Map new and established pest distributions by increasing delimitation depth and breadth.
Timeframe: 2024
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Slow or stop spread of exemplar plant pests via well documented ‘leading edge’ pest management programs.
Timeframe: Ongoing
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Number of potential or recognized invasive species subjected to risk assessment or modeling for establishment and/or spread in California; number of invasive species added to the regulated list of Restricted Live Animals (14 CCR sec. 671); number of invasive species with active monitoring, control, or eradication programs in California.
Timeframe: Annual reporting
Agency: Natural Resources Agency – Department of Fish and Wildlife, Department of Parks and Recreation’s Division of Boating and Waterways, Invasive Species Council of California
For More Details: Department of Parks and Recreation’s Division of Boating and Waterways; Invasive Species Council of California
Progress Indicator: Underway
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Action 14Improve water quality by reducing excess nutrients in groundwater.
Success Metric: Number of Alternative Manure Management Program projects with relevant technologies.
Timeframe: Annual reporting
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Alternative Manure Management Program
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Increased capacity to produce transportable manure-based soil amendments including compost produced on-farm that stabilizes nitrogen and improves nutrient cycling.
Timeframe: 2022 and annually thereafter
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Alternative Manure Management Program
Progress Indicator: Scoping
Success Metric: Technical assistance, training materials, and consultations provided to farmers through the Alternative Manure Management Program and Water Efficiency Technical Assistance grant programs.
Timeframe: 2022 and annually thereafter
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture
For More Details: Climate Smart Agriculture Technical Assistance Programs
Progress Indicator: Underway
Success Metric: Number and breadth of Fertilizer Research and Education Program research projects related to fertilizer management.
Timeframe: Annual reporting
Agency: Department of Food and Agriculture | Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board
For More Details: Fertilizer Research and Education Program
Progress Indicator: Ongoing Improvements
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Action 15 Modernize the harmful algal bloom notification (HAB) network.
Success Metric: Provision of real time notifications and predictions for significant HABs in marine and freshwater/estuarine waters. With the Department of Public Health, make recommendations to Department of Fish and Wildlife on fisheries closures and openings based on domoic acid levels in shellfish. As part of an interagency HAB-related illness workgroup, evaluate and track illness reports associated with HABs, provide toxicological consultations on HAB events, and make recommendations to the State Water Resources Control Board regarding HAB toxins in drinking water.
Timeframe: Provision of real time significant HAB notifications by 2022, predictions by 2024. Ongoing, annual updates to and distribution of HAB-related Illness Tracking summaries and outreach materials
Agency: Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board, Water Quality Monitoring Council, Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment | Natural Resources Agency – Ocean Protection Council | Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health
For More Details: Ocean Protection Council Strategic Plan, California Harmful Algal Blooms Portal; California Cyanobacteria and Harmful Algal Bloom Network; Harmful algal blooms
Progress Indicator – Environmental Protection Agency – State Water Resources Control Board, Water Quality Monitoring Council:: Scoping and organizing action; collecting input and conducting community engagement
Progress Indicator – Environmental Protection Agency – Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment | Natural Resources Agency – Ocean Protection Council | Health and Human Services Agency – Department of Public Health:: Underway
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Action 16 Integrate future climate risk into emergency preparedness and response.
Success Metric: Number of pre-positioned resources intended to anticipate and mitigate catastrophic wildfires and other climate-driven disasters.
Timeframe: 2018 and ongoing
Agency: Governor’s Office of Emergency Services | Natural Resources Agency – Department of Water Resources
For More Details: Governor’s Office of Emergency Services; Department of Water Resources Flood Emergency Response Information Exchange
Progress Indicator: Underway