Guadalupe, San Antonio, Mission, & Aransas Rivers/Mission, Copano, Aransas & San Antonio Bays Area
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Guadalupe, San Antonio, Mission, & Aransas Rivers/Mission, Copano, Aransas & San Antonio Bays Area
Timeline for the Environmental Flows Allocation Process
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Original Dates (SB3)
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Revised Dates*
(re: 7/08 EFAG mtg)
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Action
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09/01/07
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Senate Bill 3 and House Bill 3 take effect, beginning the Environmental Flows Allocation Process.
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Before 11/01/07
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The Environmental Flows Advisory
Group is created.
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Before 11/01/07
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Named at 7/08
EFAG mtg
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The Texas Environmental Flows
Science Advisory Committee is created.
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By 11/01/07
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Map adopted at 7/08
EFAG mtg
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The Environmental Flows Advisory
Group defines the geographical extend of the river
basins/bay system area for the purposes of developing environmental flow regime recommendations.
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By 9/01/08
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By 6/01/09
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The Environmental Flows Advisory
Group appoints the Bay/Basin Stakeholder
Group.
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Timing TBD
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By 10/1/09
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The Bay/Basin Stakeholder
Group
establishes their Bay/Basin Expert Science Team.
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Timing TBD
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10/1/09 - 10/1/10
(one year)
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The Bay/Basin Expert Science Team
uses best available science to develop its recommendations for an environmental
flow regime to protect a sound ecological environment. The Team submits these
recommendations to the Bay/Basin Stakeholder
Group
(and to the Environmental Flow Advisory Group
and the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality) by 10/1/10.
These recommendations are solely science-based.
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Timing TBD
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10/1/10 - 4/1/11
(six months)
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The Bay/Basin Stakeholder Group
considers the Bay/Basin Expert Science Team's
recommended environmental flow regime, the associated policy considerations, and
strategies to meet the flow recommendations. The Stakeholder Group submits
its comments and recommendations to the Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality by 4/1/11. These are a composite of science-
and policy-based recommendations.
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After 10/1/09
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After 4/1/11
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The Bay/Basin Stakeholder Group,
with assistance from the Bay/Basin Expert Science
Team, prepares and submits a work plan to address adaptive management (periodic review of the
bay/basin environmental flow analyses, regime recommendations, standards and
strategies to meet those standards).
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By 10/1/09
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4/1/11 - 4/1/12
(one year)
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The Texas Commission on
Environmental Quality by 4/1/12 for the Guadalupe, San Antonio, Mission, & Aransas Rivers/Mission, Copano, Aransas & San Antonio Bays area.
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* At the 7/08 meeting of the Environmental Flows Advisory Group, the group adopted a revised schedule to the process-a 9 month slide to the dates and timeframes listed in Senate Bill 3. 
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Environmental Flows Process