R22AC00670

1. Award Purpose:
Sites has requested funding to apply towards modeling, engineering, geotechnical, and real estate services. These services provide the foundation by which the Sites Reservoir Authority can accomplish its ultimate vision - to provide affordable water that is sustainably managed for California's farms, cities, and environment for generations to come. Funding moves the Sites project closer to providing California the benefits the reservoir project is being designed to provide. These benefits include improved water supply, improved water supply reliability, incremental level 4 water supply for refuges, improved survival of anadromous fish, enhanced Delta ecosystem, opportunities for recreation, and flood damage reduction. These benefits reach the general public, the environment, the economy, as well as local, state, and federal agencies.

2. Activities to be Performed:
The activities to be performed include improving water supply and water supply reliability, providing incremental level 4 water supply for refuges, improving the survival of anadromous fish, enhancing the Delta ecosystem, providing opportunities for recreation, and providing flood damage reduction.

3. Expected Deliverables or Outcomes the Agreement will Accomplish:
The agreement will accomplish four objectives that directly support the purpose of the Sites Reservoir project.

Objective 1: The operations modeling performed under this agreement will provide the analysis needed to support permitting efforts and water rights applications. This includes the Environmental Impact Report (EIR), Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), biological assessment, incidental take permit, and future climate change scenarios. This objective will also develop Version 1 of the Sites Reservoir operations plan.

Objective 2: The engineering tasks performed under this agreement will provide preliminary hydraulics modeling, a Class IV cost estimate, a Department of Safety of Dams (DSOD) engagement plan, a constructability analysis, a program design construction permit and implementation schedule, environmental feasibility support, and the preparation of a geotechnical permit planning and investigation plan. Preliminary engineering efforts will advance the design to 30%.

Objective 3: The geotechnical tasks performed under this agreement will consist of field data collection, preparing geotechnical data reports, preliminary planning for design, and work plans for design-level geologic and geotechnical data needs.

Objective 4: The real estate tasks performed under this agreement involve the engagement of up to 25 landowners, tenants, and entities for temporary right of entry access.

4. Intended Beneficiaries:
This project is intended to bring the Sites project closer to providing California the benefits the reservoir project is being designed to provide.

5. Subrecipient Activities (if known or specified at time of award):
N/A

Sites Project Authority

15.574 - Water Storage Enhancement

USBR California-Great Basin Region, Sacramento CA (MP) [DOI - USBR]

Colusa, California United States

County-Wide

R-R-CGB-22-013