2016 Final BDCP/California WaterFix EIR/EIS - Volume II: Response to Comments

CALIFORNIA WATERFIX HEARING EXHIBIT NO. SWRCB-102

Volume II of the Final EIR/EIS presents all of the comments received on the Draft EIR/EIS and RDEIR/SDEIS during the public review periods along with responses to all of the comments, as required by CEQA and NEPA. Volume II of the Final EIR/EIS is organized into four parts. Part 1 presents 47 master responses developed to provide responses to important common themes identified in individual comments. Part 2 presents individual comments and responses provided in a tabular format. All comment letters received were assigned a number. The indices in Part 2 can be used by commenters to look up their comment letter number and then locate the responses to their specific comments in the tables provided. Commenters can also look up their letter number using the master index provided in an Excel format. Part 3 lists sources cited in the master responses and the individual responses to comments. The final part of Volume II is Appendix A, which is provided in two parts and provides copies of all comments received.

The tables which appear in Part 2 will on occasion skip numbers. This is due to several possibilities:

  • Where the comment was a request for information, such as a request for an electronic copy of the document, that letter may have been assigned a number, but was not included in this table, since it did not include any substantive comment on the 2013 Draft EIR/EIS or the 2015 RDEIR/SDEIS. These requests have all been responded to.
  • Commenters occasionally would send a comment via email and then follow it with a hard copy via US Postal Service. Both letters may have been assigned a number, but only one copy is included in the table for response.
  • The comment may have been erroneously sent to the designated email address for public comments on the BDCP/California WaterFix, but was in fact intended for one of the lead agencies regarding a different project.

It is anticipated that the Final EIR/FEIS will be used by multiple parties, including the petitioners, as evidence in the hearing to consider conditional changes to the water right permits of the Department of Water Resources and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in support of the California WaterFix project. To discourage introducing the same document(s) under different party/exhibit numbers, Board staff copied the Final EIR/EIS documents to a web server under the control of the State Water Board's I.T. Division and labeled it as Exhibit No. SWRCB-102. Parties in the hearing who plan to use the Final EIR/FEIS in their testimony are requested to use this identification when introducing the document(s) by reference. Other party exhibit identification numbers will not be allowed for these documents.

Final EIR/EIS Volume II: Introduction and Part 1

Name Date Size
Final EIR-EIS Vol II Part 1 12/22/2012 3.59 MB

Final EIR/EIS Volume II, Part 2-1
Note: Table 1 is provided in 40 separate files. Responses to comments are organized in numeric order by letter number.  The Table 1 files are organized in order by letter number and the files are clearly titled to help readers locate responses to comments. For example, responses to comment letter 50 on the Draft EIR/EIS will be provided in the portion of Table 1 titled DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1-99. An index is provided to locate comment letters by author/organization. Table 1 meets the requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended in 1998 for all of the comment letters submitted on the Draft EIR/EIS. This section requires federal agencies to make all electronic documents and data accessible to people with disabilities in a manner comparable to those without disabilities. This section requires that documents should be able to be read with screen readers.

Name Date Size
Final EIR-EIS Vol II Part 2-1 12/22/2012 1.30 MB
Index of 2013 Draft EIR-EIS Commenters 12/22/2012 0.09 MB

Volume II, Table 2-1

Name Date Size
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1-99 12/22/2016 0.97 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 100-199 12/22/2016 0.78 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 200-299 12/22/2016 0.99 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 300-399 12/22/2016 1.33 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 400-499 12/22/2016 1.47 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 500-599 12/22/2012 2.44 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 600-699 12/22/2016 2.09 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 700-799 12/22/2016 3.94 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 800-899 12/22/2012 3.55 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 900-999 12/22/2016 0.58 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1000-1099 12/22/2016 0.55 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1100-1199 12/22/2016 0.56 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1300-1399 12/22/2016 0.54 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1400-1499 12/22/2016 2.83 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1500-1548 12/21/2016 3.80 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1549-1559 12/22/2016 1.67 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1560-1569 12/22/2016 4.19 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1570-1579 12/22/2016 0.46 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1580-1589 12/22/2016 0.33 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1590-1599 12/22/2016 4.28 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1600-1601 12/21/2016 5.00 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1602-1629 12/22/2016 3.94 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1630-1649 12/22/2016 2.71 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1650-1659 12/22/2016 2.32 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1660-1669 12/22/2016 2.45 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1670-1673 12/22/2016 2.45 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1674 12/22/2016 4.59 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1675-1699 12/22/2016 3.55 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1700-1719 12/22/2016 2.15 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1720-1729 12/22/2016 3.58 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1730-1749 12/22/2016 3.06 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1750-1769 12/22/2016 1.84 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1770-1779 12/22/2016 0.40 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1780-1789 12/22/2016 5.24 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1790-1799 12/22/2016 0.52 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1800-1849 12/22/2016 2.44 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1850-1899 12/22/2016 5.24 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1900-1949 12/22/2016 1.18 MB
DEIRS Comment Responses Letters 1950-2100 12/22/2016 1.91 MB

Final EIR/EIS Volume II, Part 2-2
Note: Table 2 is provided 38 separate files. The Table 2 files are organized in order by letter number and the files are clearly titled to help readers locate responses to comments. For example, responses to comment letter 50 on the RDEIR/SDEIS will be provided in the portion of Table 1 titled RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 1-99. Table 2 meets the requirements of Section 508 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 as amended in 1998 for all of the comment letters submitted on the RDEIR/SDEIS. This section requires federal agencies to make all electronic documents and data accessible to people with disabilities in a manner comparable to those without disabilities. This section requires that documents should be able to be read with screen readers.

Name Date Size
Final EIR-EIS Vol II Part 2-2 12/22/2012 3.38 MB
Index of 2015 RDEIR-SDEIS Commenters 12/22/2012 0.25 MB

Volume II, Table 2-2

Name Date Size
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 1-99 12/22/2016 1.15 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 100-199 12/22/2016 0.66 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 200-299 12/22/2016 0.77 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 300-399 12/22/2016 0.94 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 400-499 12/22/2016 0.88 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 500-599 12/22/2016 1.08 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 600-699 12/22/2016 0.91 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 700-799 12/22/2016 0.52 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 800-899 12/22/2016 0.48 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 900-999 12/22/2016 0.49 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 1000-1099 12/22/2016 0.46 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 1100-1199 12/22/2016 0.53 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 1200-1299 12/22/2016 0.50 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 1300-1399 12/22/2016 0.53 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 1400-1499 12/22/2016 0.50 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 1500-1599 12/22/2016 0.49 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 1600-1799 12/22/2016 0.72 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 1700-1799 12/22/2016 0.53 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 1800-1899 12/22/2016 0.48 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 1900-1999 12/22/2016 0.60 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 2000-2099 12/22/2016 0.82 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 2100-2199 12/22/2016 0.75 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 2200-2299 12/22/2016 0.55 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 2300-2399 12/22/2016 1.36 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 2400-2499 12/22/2016 2.01 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 2500-2549 12/22/2016 2.46 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 2550-2569 12/22/2016 1.55 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 2570-2599 12/22/2016 3.66 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 2600-2649 12/22/2016 3.77 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 2650-2699 12/22/2016 4.37 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 2700-2799 12/22/2016 1.94 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 2800-2899 12/22/2016 1.23 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 2900-2999 12/22/2016 0.78 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 3000-3099 12/22/2016 0.88 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 3100-3999 12/22/2016 1.92 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 4000-4999 12/22/2016 1.99 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 5000-5999 12/22/2016 2.06 MB
RECIRC Comment Responses Letters 6000-6999 12/22/2016 0.67 MB

Final EIR/EIS Volume II, Part 2-3--Part 4

Name Date Size
Final EIR-EIS Vol II Part 2-3--2-4 Indices 12/22/2012 13.64 MB
Final EIR-EIS Vol II Part 2.4 Comment Response Table 12/22/2012 0.55 MB