This project is technically feasible and fully implementable. It will not require any CEQA or NEPA documents. Access permits will be required to service and establish continuous monitoring stations, and collect discrete water quality samples of agricultural discharge, but these are not major impediments to the project, because of the broad local support.

There are no implementation issues that need to be resolved before beginning the project.

However, we recognized there is a problem in the management of CALFED contracts and funds that causes long delays, when they are run through state and federal agencies. Because we do not want to delay our efforts to solve this problem any longer than necessary, we followed recommendations to have a foundation manage the contract instead of a state or federal agency. We have received approval from the CSUS Foundation to use them for management of this project if it should be funded. This does increase the cost substantially (20%) because the funding is in arrears. This high cost could be reduced to 15% if funding was in advance.