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California Water Security and Environmental Enhancement

Program Information

Popular name

California Bay-Delta Authorization Act (CALFED)

Program Number

15.533

Program objective

The purpose of the CALFED Bay-Delta Authorization Act authorizes the Secretary of the Interior and the heads of the other Federal implementing agencies to carry out specific activities identified in the Act in furtherance of the CALFED Bay-Delta Program as set forth in the CALFED Bay-Delta Program Record of Decision dated August 28, 2000. The primary objectives of the program are to expand water supplies to ensure efficient use through an array of projects and approaches, improve water quality from source to tap, improve the health of the Bay-Delta system through restoring and protecting habitats and native species, and improve the Bay-Delta levees to provide flood protection, ecosystem benefits, and protect water supplies.

Program expenditures, by FY (2023 - 2025)

This chart shows obligations for the program by fiscal year. All data for this chart was provided by the administering agency and sourced from SAM.gov, USASpending.gov, and Treasury.gov.

For more information on each of these data sources, please see the About the data page.

Additional program information

  1. 2017

    Information not available. In Fiscal Year 2017 funding was provided to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy to educate Delta public outreach program participants on water supply reliability, water quality, Delta ecological restoration efforts and how to protect local water resources.

  2. 2018

    In Fiscal Year 2018 funding was provided to the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta Conservancy to educate Delta public outreach program participants on water supply reliability, water quality, Delta ecological restoration efforts and how to protect local water resources.

  3. 2019

    Information not available.

  4. 2020

    Information not available.

  5. 2022

    The project accomplishes its public purpose by implementing a best management practice through the timing of discharges to the Lower San Joaquin River (LSJR) through a Real Time Management Program (RTMP). This will improve water quality, conserve water by reducing reliance on dilution flows from New Melones Reservoir and improve avian and salmon habitats within the LSJR watershed. As a public Benefit, the project will address salinity discharges from Grassland Resource Conservation District wetlands to the LSJR watershed that includes implementation of mitigation actions for areas of high salt accumulation such as wetlands and agriculture discharges.

  6. 2023

    WaterSMART program with CSU Chico to investigate the wildfire impacts on reservoir operations, reservoir capacity and water quality.

Single Audit Applies (2 CFR Part 200 Subpart F):

For additional information on single audit requirements for this program, review the current Compliance Supplement.

OMB is working with the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) and agency offices of inspectors general to include links to relevant oversight reports. This section will be updated once this information is made available.

2 CFR 200 UNIFORM ADMINISTRATIVE REQUIREMENTS, COST PRINCIPLES, AND AUDIT REQUIREMENTS FOR FEDERAL AWARDS and the applicable OMB Circulars. These documents may also be obtained by contacting the Bureau of Reclamation Office listed below.

  1. Water Supply, Reliability, and Environmental Improvement Act, Title I – California Water Security and Environmental Enhancement, Public Law 108-361.
  2. II, Division D, Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2024. Pub. L. 118, 42.

Program details

Program types

Eligible beneficiaries

  • Anyone/general public
  • Federal
  • Private nonprofit institution/organization
  • State

Additional resources