Administration formalizes federal Water Subcabinet A newly formalized Water Subcabinet will focus on “efficient and effectiveman- agementandmodernization”ofwatersup- plieswhileeliminatingduplicationamong federal agencies, according toanexecutive order fromPresident DonaldTrump. formalized efforts to coordinate federal watermanagement. der the Trump administration for the past several years.
“Farmerscannotgrowthe foodandfarm products we all consumewithout water— and in California and much of the West, moremust bedone tosecureadequate, re- liableandcost-effectivesupplies for farms, cities and the environment,” Johansson said. “It’s time for agencies and elected officials at all levels to put aside differenc- es and come together around this critical issue. Our aging water systemneeds con- certed, coordinated work to assure it can provide safewater for drinking and irriga- tion and a healthy ecosystem.” FamilyFarmAllianceExecutiveDirector DanKeppennoted that an informalWater Subcabinethasbeenworking togetherun- “including for drinking water, desalina- tion, water reuse, wastewater and flood control”; and improvewaterdatamanage- ment, research,modelingand forecasting. TheWaterSubcabinetwillbeco-chaired by Interior Secretary David Bernhardt and Environmental Protection Agency AdministratorAndrewWheeler, theWhite House said, and will include representa- tivesof theU.S.Department ofAgriculture, Department of Commerce, Department of Energy and Department of the Army. The subcabinet, also known as the inter- agency Water Policy Committee, will co- ordinate activities with the White House Council on Environmental Quality, Office of Management and Budget and Office of Science and Technology Policy. Virtual hearings will consider PG&E rates “Wearealreadyseeing improvedcoordi- nationamongthemultiplefederalagencies who have jurisdiction overWesternwater matters,”Keppensaid. “Formallyestablish- ing theWater Subcabinet with this execu- tive order should further improve agency coordinationanddecision-making.” Specifically, theexecutiveorder charges theWater Subcabinet with actions to “in- creasewater storage,water supply reliabil- ity anddrought resiliency”; improvewater quality, source-water protection and nu- trient management, promote restoration activities andexaminewater-quality chal- lenges facing minority and low-income communities; improve water systems,
Trump signed the order last week, in an actiontheWhiteHousesaidensuresfederal coordination onwater policy will become “standardpracticenowandintothefuture.” According to theWhite House Council on Environmental Quality, the Water Subcabinet will: • Promote effective and efficient water resourcesmanagementby reducingdupli- cationamong federal agenciesdeveloping water policy. •Developanationalwater strategy toen- sure the reliability of water supplies, water quality,watersystemsandwaterforecasting. • Promote integrated planning and co- ordination for drinkingwater, wastewater, water reuse, water storage and delivery, andwater resourcemanagement. • Support and enhance workforce de- velopment to recruit, train and retainwa- ter-sector professionals. California Farm Bureau Federation President Jamie Johanssonwelcomed the
Having filed a general rate case appli- cation with the California Public Utilities Commission, PacificGas&ElectricCo.will hold two virtual public hearings Nov. 6 to informcustomersabout theutilitycompa- ny’s suggested rate increases. AspartofPG&E’sgeneral ratecasephase 2proceedings, thePUChastheopportunity to update electric marginal costs and re-
sulting costs of service, revise the associat- edclass level revenueallocationandadopt rate designswithin each customer class. California Farm Bureau Federation Director of Legal Services Karen Norene Mills said thecommission’sdecision in this proceedingwill setmarginal cost, revenue allocation and rate design policies for the next three years, including the rate design rules that will ultimately be applied to PG&E’s authorized revenue requirements, whicharedeterminedinotherproceedings. Noadditional revenuerequirementsarere- quested for recovery in this application. “The actual impact of PG&E’s rate up- dates for individual customers will vary, depending on the individual customer’s price schedule and usage profile,” Mills said. “For most agricultural customers, the averagemonthlybill impactwill range from 2.5% to 10%, although some cus- tomers will experience greater or lesser increases than this.” PG&E intends to update its initial regu- latory filing toreflect revenue-requirement data and customer electric sales forecasts that will be implemented in rates, “mean- ing that theprecise rate impacts of PG&E’s proposalsmay change,” she said. Resources from the University of California tohelp farmers producemalting barleyhavebeengatheredonanewwebsite. The Malting Barley website may be found at smallgrains.ucanr.edu/General_ Production/Malting_Barley. Informationavailableat the site includes fact sheets andvideopresentations intend- edtoaddresscommonconcernsassociated withproducingmalting barley, such as ni- trogenmanagement andvariety selection. UC farm advisors said the site also in- cludes up-to-date summaries of malting barley varietyperformance inUC trials, an interactiveseedingratecalculatorandlinks tomalting barley-relatedUC research. Onlyasmallproportionofmaltingbarley used inCalifornia is grownwithin the state, according to UC farm advisors Konrad Mathesius, TaylorNelsenandMarkLundy. In a blog posting, they pointed to con-
CFBFhasconcernsabout thePG&Epro- posal,Mills said, noting that customersare still transitioning to the existing agricul- tural rate designs adopted in 2017, and to newlyadopted time-of-useperiods identi- fied in2019proceedings. Agricultural cus- tomers who take service under those new time-of-use period definitions, she said, beginonamandatorybasis inMarch2021. Mills said CFBF is also conducting dis- covery to assess a proposal for potential rateadjustments relatedto impactsofpub- lic safety power shutoffs on agricultural customer usage and resulting electricity costs. It is anticipated that testimony by CFBF in the case will argue for minimiz- ing any increases to the agricultural class relative to other customer classes.
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Virtual publicparticipationhearings on the PG&E general rate case are scheduled for 2 p.m. and 6 p.m. onNov. 6 andwill be webcast at www.adminmonitor.com/ca/ cpuc. To provide comments during the webcast, participants should call 800- 857-1917 and use the following partici- pant codes: 1673482 (2 p.m.meeting) and 5020731 (6 p.m. meeting). For more information, visit www.cpuc. ca.gov/PPH. UC posts malting-barley resources
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tinued expansion of craft brewing in California, andsaidmoremalting facilities are slowly coming online. “Currently, California ismalting rough- ly 900 tons annually,” the farm advisors wrote, “with some of the barley grown in Northern California shipped out of state for malting. For comparative purposes, California produces 3.7 million barrels of craft beer annually, the equivalent of around 120,000 tons of barley.” As a low-water, low-fertilizer crop,malt- ingbarley fits fairlywell intomost row-crop rotations in California, the farm advisors wrote, taking the place of wheat or feed barleywhen prices aremore favorable. “The challenge for growers comes from access to markets and a strict set of grain quality parameters associatedwith brew- ing quality that can lead to lower prices or outright crop rejection,” they said.
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