Transcript The Watershed Action Plan

The Watershed Action Plan
Chapter 10: Realizing the WMI Vision
August Draft
Today’s Presentation
Project Status & Schedule
Chapter 10 Contents
Completing and Selling the Action Plan
Milestones
February
General
Features
January
Retreat
March
Outline
June
Draft
Ch. 1-9
August
Draft
Ch. 10
October
Complete
Draft
December
Core Group
Approval
WMI
Vision
Actions
WAPTAG
COS
Draft
Ch. 10
Draft
Chapters
1-9
Process
Draft
WAP
Comments
WMI
Goals
We are here
Retreat
Final
WAP
Chapter 10
Realizing the WMI Vision
Chapter 10 Contents
Why the Santa Clara Basin needs the WMI
The WMI’s Strengths and Key Functions
The WMI’s Nine Strategic Policy Objectives
Implementation
Conclusion
Why the Basin needs the WMI
Increase in mandated & voluntary programs
Programs interact and overlap
Potential for confusion and conflict
Need to align, coordinate and integrate
Streamline regulations
Accelerate preservation and enhancement
Economic benefit
The WMI’s Strengths
What we’ve achieved
Common vision, goals, and objectives
Consensus on a balanced approach
Recognize each other’s legitimate interests
Track record of successes
What we do best
Articulate & communicate a vision of the future
Facilitate exchange of ideas & perspectives
Achieve consensus among different interests
Prioritizing Actions & Tasks
Actions & Tasks
Chapters 1 - 9
Policies & Programs
Stream Stewardship
HCPs/NCCPs
Action
Worksheets
(112)
Chapter 10
Policy
Objectives
Floodplain Mgt.
General Plans
TMDLs
WMI Role
Future Functions
Facilitate stakeholder groups
Add fresh technical &
policy perspectives
Recommend solutions to policy-makers
Bring consensus to boards, managers, & funders
Educate and involve the public
Develop indicators
Issue reports
Nine Policy Objectives
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Stream Stewardship Planning
Floodplains & Riparian Corridors
Habitat Conservation Planning
Expanding the National Wildlife Refuge
General Plans & Specific Area Plans
Drainage Systems that Retain or Detain Runoff
Better Assessments, TMDLs, & Permits
Integrated Water Resources Planning
Coordinating Outreach
1. Stream Stewardship Planning Objectives
• Integrate Restoration & Flood Protection
• Use a Floodplain Management Approach
• Remove Barriers to Fish
• Restore Stream Beds and Banks
• Restore Shaded Riparian Aquatic Habitat
• Coordinate FAHCE, SMP, SPP, Sediment TMDLs
• Commit to Long-term Adaptive Management
2. Floodplain & Riparian Planning Objectives
Coordinate & Integrate:
• National Flood Insurance Program
• Countywide Trail Master Plan & Guidelines
• Recreational Facilities
• Protected Habitat Areas
• Regional Stormwater Facilities
• Shared sense of place
3. Habitat Conservation Planning Objectives
• Adaptive management – specific, measurable
• Update and improve habitat surveys
• Incorporate existing refuges and public lands
• Acquire new land for critical habitat
• Restore native plants & animals
• Coordinate with strategic plans & General Plans
4. National Wildlife Refuge Expansion
• Comprehensive planning process
• Issue permits timely to allow restoration
• Plan for levee maintenance & flood protection
• Apply Bay Ecosystem Habitat Goals
• Preserve & expand contiguous critical habitat
5. General Plans & Specific Area Plans
• Detailed maps of habitat corridors
• Coordinate acquisition & mgt. of open space
• Assess cumulative impacts at appropriate scale
• Encourage smart growth
6. Site Development & Drainage
• Implement C.3. provisions
• Develop public works specifications and details
• Coordinate hydromodification management planning
with stream stewardship planning
#7. Objectives for Better
Assessments, TMDLs & Permits
Coordinate monitoring & assessment
Acknowledge different objectives & methodology
Test problem statements & conceptual models
Coordinate investigations to optimize support for
listing decisions and TMDLs
Build on successes with POTW permits and
site-specific objectives
#8. Integrated Water Resources
Planning Objectives
Develop broad representation in
the IWRP process
Gauge & build public support for
conservation & recycling
Integrate conservation & recycling with
objectives for stream stewardship &
habitat conservation
#9. Objectives for Outreach
Align & coordinate messages around the vision.
Stream functions; effects of urbanization; Multiple uses
of floodplains in urban areas; Smart Growth; Importance
of imperviousness; Water conservation, recycling &
stream habitat; Habitat reserves; Pollution Prevention
Inform public & stakeholders about public policies
& investment needed to achieve our vision.
Annual report updating key indicators of watershed
health and WMI achievements and successes
Chapter 10 Contents (Review)
Why the Santa Clara Basin needs the WMI
The WMI’s Strengths and Key Functions
The WMI’s Nine Strategic Policy Objectives
Implementation
Conclusion
Needs for Implementation
Commitments from Signatories
Process to prioritize future actions
Capacity
Structure for decision-making
Staff
WMI will ask signatories to:
Adopt policy objectives
Assign stakeholder processes to WMI
Provide resources to make process work
Cu/Ni Technical Working Group is a model
Provide resources to support integration
Prioritize Future Actions
WMI is a clearinghouse for new actions
Facilitate consensus on how and where new
actions can be implemented
Prioritize by:
Relevance to WMI policy objectives
Effectiveness in attaining the objectives
Timeliness
Use of WMI resources
WMI Needs Capacity to:
Facilitate stakeholder processes
Bring consensus recommendations
to decision-makers
Formulate, refine, disseminate
the WMI message
Capacity
WMI Structure
Retain existing WMI decision-making structure
(with minor changes)
Expand WMI executive capabilities & authority
WMI Staff
Leadership
Enough staff to fulfill WMI role
Action Plan Conclusion
Ten years from now,
the need for a WMI will be obvious.
The Basin has a WMI now.
The WMI has an Action Plan now.
Stakeholders have the opportunity to
strengthen the WMI & entrust with the
challenges that lie ahead.
Completing & Selling
the Action Plan
Product Development  Sales
Signatories’ Decisions to “Buy-in”
Adopt Policy Objectives in Chapter 10
Assign stakeholder processes to WMI
Integrated Stream Stewardship Planning
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Sediment TMDLs, Stream Protection Policy
Floodplain & Riparian Planning/Mapping
National Wildlife Refuge Expansion Planning
Habitat Conservation Planning
General Plans & Specific Plans
Provide additional resources to WMI
Signatories’ Steps to Decision
Acknowledge the problem
Accept the value of aligning, coordinating, &
integrating plans and policies
Believe that WMI can add value to process
Commit “in concept” to WMI role
Negotiate specific agreements
Schedule
August 2: COS group reviews objectives
August 19: Core Group comments on Ch. 10
August 20: WAPTAG discusses comments
August 23: “Dry run” of presentation to REF
September 4: Regulatory Executive Forum
September 5: Report back to Core Group
September 24: Complete draft distributed
Schedule
October 3: Presentation of Complete Draft
October: Core Group comments on draft
December 5: Core Group approval of
Watershed Action Plan
Core Group members will take Action Plan
back to their agencies with expectation that
it will be approved
In 2003…
Agency Staff Reports to Boards & Councils
Action Plan is attachment or reference
Agencies adopt policies to:
Approve WMI policy objectives
Engage in WMI stakeholder processes
Provide WMI with funding and resources
Coordinate outreach on WMI issues
In 2003, WMI will need to:
Lead and facilitate discussions with agency
managers and department heads
Coordinate and assist with staff reports and
council/board meetings
Convene & facilitate initial meetings for
stakeholder groups
Discussion