Sec. 101. Findings
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Congress finds that— as established in the Proclamation of a State of Emergency issued by the Governor of the State on January 17, 2014, the State is experiencing record dry conditions; extremely dry conditions have persisted in the State since 2012, and the current drought conditions are likely to persist into the future; the water supplies of the State are at record-low levels, as indicated by a statewide average snowpack of 12 percent of the normal average for winter as of February 1, 2014, and the fact that all major Central Valley Project reservoir levels are below 50 percent of the capacity of the reservoirs as of the date of enactment of this Act; the 2013–2014 drought constitutes a serious emergency posing immediate and severe risks to human life and safety and to the environment throughout the State; the emergency requires— immediate and credible action that respects the complexity of the State of California’s water system and its importance to the entire State; and policies that do not pit stakeholders against one another, which history has shown only leads to costly litigation that benefits no one and prevents any real solutions;
Federal law (including regulations) directly authorizes expedited decisionmaking procedures and environmental and public review procedures to enable timely and appropriate implementation of actions to respond to such a type and severity of emergency; and the serious emergency posed by the 2013–2014 drought in the State fully satisfies the conditions necessary for the exercise of emergency decisionmaking, analytical, and public review requirements under— the Endangered Species Act of 1973 ( 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq. ); the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 ( 42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq. ); water control management procedures of the Corps of Engineers described in section 222.5 of title 33, Code of Federal Regulations (including successor regulations); and the Reclamation States Emergency Drought Relief Act of 1991 ( Public Law 102–250 ; 106 Stat. 53).
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- Pub. L. 102-250
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