Annual Report Structure

Within 45 days of completing Covered Activities and all mitigation measures for a Project Phase — and again after all Phases are complete — the Designated Biologist or Biological Monitor prepares and Permittee delivers a Final Phase Mitigation Report to CDFW summarizing the Phase's Monthly Compliance Reports and Annual Status Reports, MMRP implementation dates, incidental take and impacts, Covered Activity start and end dates, an effectiveness assessment and recommendations.

Twin Cities Complex

Not StartedDue 2026-07-10

Ninety days before the ITP expires, the Designated Biologist, Fisheries Biologist or Biological Monitor prepares and Permittee delivers to CDFW a Mitigation Status Report summarizing all Final Phase Mitigation Reports, the MMRP table with implementation dates, all incidental take and other impacts, Covered Activity dates, an effectiveness assessment of the Conditions and recommendations.

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not StartedDue 2026-08-28

Photo monitoring obtained at the stations established for each temporarily impacted habitat area is delivered to CDFW for each calendar month with the Monthly Compliance Report, in a geographic format with the coordinate system identified, and all photo monitoring for the year is included with the Annual Status Report.

Intake C — North Delta

Not StartedDue 2027-01-252 of 3 done

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

On HoldDue 2026-10-051 of 3 done

When a recently deceased CTS specimen is preserved, Permittee consults CDFW on the method of specimen disposal and follows the method CDFW agrees to.

Byron Tract Forebay

Not Started

If the Designated Biologist or Biological Monitor becomes unable to comply with the ITP, that biologist or monitor immediately notifies the CDFW Representative.

Intake B — North Delta

Not Started

Intake C — North Delta

In Progress

If a CBB nest may be lost to ground disturbance, or cannot be avoided and will be lost, CDFW is contacted immediately — within 24 hours — to determine next steps.

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Completed

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not Started

The Designated Biologist immediately notifies CDFW, within 24 hours, if TRBL abandon nests or nestlings or if a nesting or roosting colony exhibits distress or abnormal nesting behavior, giving location, species, date, circumstances, receiving facility if applicable and the ITP number.

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Not Started

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not Started

Permittee immediately notifies the Designated Biologist when a CBB, CTS or SWHA is taken, injured or killed by a Covered Activity, or is found dead or injured within the vicinity of a preconstruction activity, construction site or maintenance area.

Intake C — North Delta

In Progress

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Completed

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not Started

Permittee immediately notifies the Designated Biologist, Fisheries Biologist or Biological Monitor whenever a Covered Species — including GGS or TRBL — is taken or injured by a Covered Activity, or is found dead or injured in the vicinity of preconstruction, construction or maintenance work.

Intake B — North Delta

In Progress

For the species-specific conditions, the Designated Biologist or Designated Representative notifies the CDFW Representative within one business day of finding an injured or killed CBB, CTS or SWHA, giving location, species, number, receiving facility and ITP number, and Permittee sends CDFW a written incident report within two business days documenting the circumstances, the procedure followed and the final disposition of the animal.

Intake B — North Delta

In Progress

On any take, injury or death of a Covered Species, the Designated Biologist or Designated Representative calls the CDFW Bay-Delta Region Stockton Office with the GPS location, date, time, species, number, injury type or likely cause of death, receiving facility and ITP number, and Permittee follows with a written incident report to CDFW within two business days covering circumstances, photographs, procedure followed and final disposition. The written report is also included in the next Monthly…

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

In Progress

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not Started

The Designated Representative or Designated Biologist notifies CDFW by telephone and email within 24 hours each time a GGS is relocated, giving date, time, location and circumstances, and follows with a written incident report that is also included in the Monthly Compliance Report.

Intake C — North Delta

In Progress

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Completed

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not Started

The Designated Representative immediately notifies CDFW of any non-compliance with a Condition of Approval, including actual or anticipated failure to implement measures within ITP or MMRP time periods, and follows up within 24 hours with a written report detailing the non-compliance and suggested remedies.

Intake C — North Delta

Not Started

No more than six months after Phase 2 Operations begin, Permittee provides CDFW a Phase 2 Project Operations Report summarizing all Monthly Compliance Reports and Annual Status Reports, the MMRP table with implementation dates, all Project-related take and other impacts, Covered Activity start and end dates, an effectiveness assessment and recommendations.

Byron Tract Forebay

Completed

Intake B — North Delta

Not StartedDue 2026-05-20

The carcass shall be photographed, salvaged, and placed in a labeled, clean plastic, resealable bag or vial and stored in a freezer by the Designated Biologist(s) for shipment to CDFW Wildlife Health Lab.

Any Covered Species sighting anywhere in the construction site before or during construction, including dewatering, is reported to CDFW by email within one working day of discovery. The Designated Biologist, Fisheries Biologist or Biological Monitor records the location with GPS, including datum and horizontal accuracy in feet, and reports the observed location to CDFW within one business day.

Byron Tract Forebay

Not Started

Intake B — North Delta

Completed

The Designated Biologist or Biological Monitor files each Covered Species observation with CDFW's California Natural Diversity Database within 60 calendar days of the observation, and includes copies of the submitted CNDDB forms with the next Monthly Compliance Report or Annual Status Report, whichever comes first.

Intake C — North Delta

Not Started

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Not Started

The Biological Monitor(s) shall receive training and direction from the Designated Biologist(s) or Fisheries Biologist(s) for each task performed, and shall communicate daily with the Designated Biologist(s) or Fisheries Biologist(s) and immediately report any occurrence of Covered Species within the Project construction site, as well as any apparent non-compliance with any provision of this ITP.

Before CDFW approves each Project Phase, the Permittee calculates that Phase's Security following the Phase Authorization Form (Attachment 6) instructions and COA 12.9, submitting the cost estimates CDFW uses to determine an amount sufficient for CDFW or its contractors to complete land acquisition, property enhancement, start-up, initial and long-term management, studies and monitoring.

Twin Cities Complex

Not Started

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

On Hold

Byron Tract Forebay

Not Started

When USFWS or NMFS issues a Biological Opinion for construction or operation of the Project, Permittee consults with CDFW on its terms as described in COA 8 and documents the consultation; where federal terms are less protective than or conflict with this ITP, the ITP conditions control.

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

On Hold

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Completed

Where suitable aquatic breeding habitat south of Byron Highway cannot be avoided by 300 feet, Permittee notifies CDFW and develops site-specific avoidance and minimization measures with CDFW through the appropriate Phase Authorization Package, and consults CDFW on further habitat protection measures at the Bethany Complex to maintain breeding-to-upland connectivity.

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

Not Started

Byron Tract Forebay

Not Started

When a listed amendment-triggering condition occurs — including impacts documented in a Phase Authorization Package that are greater or less than anticipated, or a proposal to modify the January–February operating criteria in COA 11.111 and 11.111.2 — Permittee notifies CDFW in writing, consults on whether an amendment is necessary, and files an amendment application when one is required.

Byron Tract Forebay

In Progress

Intake B — North Delta

Not Started

Intake C — North Delta

Completed

If in-channel work must occur during the GGS active season, Permittee requests and obtains written CDFW approval, has the Designated Biologist or Biological Monitor survey for GGS under the CDFW-approved protocol before work begins, and keeps monitoring throughout the Covered Activities.

Byron Tract Forebay

Completed

Permittee and the Designated Biologist obtain written CDFW approval for any deviation from the dewatering measure and coordinate the alternative actions with CDFW before carrying them out.

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

On Hold

Byron Tract Forebay

Not Started

At least three months before acquiring or transferring HM lands, Permittee submits documentation identifying the land to be purchased or the property interest to be conveyed to an approved entity as mitigation, and obtains CDFW's written approval; HM lands may be proposed and approved in segments or subsets.

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

In ProgressDue 2026-10-31

Where nighttime work is proposed, Permittee details the activity type, assesses site-specific impacts to Covered Species, identifies impact-reduction measures and justifies the need in the appropriate Construction Phase Authorization Package, and conducts nighttime work only after CDFW approves.

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

On Hold

Twin Cities Complex

In Progress

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

In Progress

If Permittee elects to purchase Covered Species credits for a Project Phase, it obtains CDFW approval confirming the mitigation or conservation bank is appropriate to compensate for that Phase's impacts before any credits are purchased.

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Overdue

Twin Cities Complex

On Hold

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

In Progress

If Phase 1 Operations must run beyond one calendar year, Permittee requests and obtains CDFW approval of the extension, keeping the combined duration of Phase 1 and Phase 2 Operations within two calendar years.

Intake B — North Delta

Not Started

To conduct Covered Activities in suitable GGS habitat before May 1, or otherwise outside the seasonal work restriction where initial ground disturbance predates September 15 and an exclusion barrier is already installed, Permittee submits a written request with justification, National Weather Service temperature evidence and any information CDFW requires, and obtains written CDFW approval before starting.

Byron Tract Forebay

Completed

Because this ITP authorizes no take for HM lands activities, Permittee obtains separate CESA authorization, and any separate CEQA evaluation, before implementing HM land protection, restoration and perpetual management.

Twin Cities Complex

Not Started

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

Not Started

Permittee includes assessments of aquatic conditions for each Covered Fish Species monitoring period in the Phase 2 Operations Authorization Package and in the Final Mitigation Report following completion of Phase 2 Operations, so CDFW can evaluate changes in aquatic conditions across construction and operations.

Intake C — North Delta

Not StartedDue 2026-03-26

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Completed

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not StartedDue 2026-08-26

For each Construction Phase, Permittee submits a complete Construction Phase Authorization Package — Attachment 6 form with annual schedule and impact and mitigation calculations, biological report, habitat delineation, baseline survey results, 95% engineering plan, site-specific plans and the Phase's avoidance, minimization and mitigation measures — to WBSWPPermitting@wildlife.ca.gov 90 days before that Phase's Covered Activities, and does not begin the Phase until it holds the CDFW-signed…

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Completed

Permittee submits draft fish study plans and reports on the timelines in the CDFW-approved Covered Fish Species Monitoring and Science Plan and in each Condition of Approval, returns a revised final draft within six months of receiving CDFW comments, and obtains CDFW approval of every plan and report before implementing it or finalizing it.

Twin Cities Complex

In ProgressDue 2026-08-12

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

Not StartedDue 2026-10-24

Byron Tract Forebay

Completed

Permittee includes in the Phase 2 Authorization Package a final report documenting the joint operations study results and demonstrating the Project's ability to meet the Covered Fish Species Biological Criteria.

Intake B — North Delta

In ProgressDue 2026-11-02

No more than 120 days before Phase 1 Operations begin, Permittee submits a complete Phase 2 Authorization Package — Attachment 6 form, covered fish life cycle models, joint operations modeling, science and monitoring reports, preconstruction engineering studies, operations monitoring results, 100% design and applicable measures and plans — and does not begin Phase 2 Operations until CDFW has signed the Phase 2 Authorization Form.

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not StartedDue 2026-11-17

Permittee submits the completed Pre-implementation Phase Authorization Package — Phase Authorization Form, monitoring and management plans and final survey methodology — no less than one year before preconstruction activities begin, and starts no Covered Activity until CDFW has reviewed and signed it.

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Not StartedDue 2026-08-03

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not StartedDue 2026-03-04

Permittee includes the Designated Biologist's initial preconstruction field survey results in the appropriate Construction Phase Authorization Package, identifying the spatial extent of suitable habitat for each Covered Species and the total area surveyed.

Intake C — North Delta

Not StartedDue 2026-09-12

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Completed

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not StartedDue 2026-03-13

Permittee develops with CDFW the final protocol-level species and habitat survey methodology for CTS, GGS, SWHA, TRBL, CBB and MALI, submits it in the Pre-implementation Phase Authorization Package, and obtains written approval before any Covered Activity including preconstruction field investigations and preconstruction species site surveys. The protocols specify survey number, timing and spacing, habitat types, methods and rationale, capture and identification protocols and presence or…

Twin Cities Complex

In ProgressDue 2026-08-29

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

In ProgressDue 2026-06-29

Permittee submits the results of the Subsurface Testing and Monitoring Study, with suggested vibratory monitoring protocols for fossorial Covered Species, to CDFW as part of the appropriate Construction Phase Authorization Package.

Intake C — North Delta

Completed

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Completed

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not StartedDue 2026-10-16

Permittee submits the additional data collected during Phase 1 Operations, with associated reports, to CDFW no less than 90 days before Phase 2 Operations begin, to augment the Phase 2 Authorization Package.

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Completed

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

In ProgressDue 2026-10-10

Before any Covered Activities, including preconstruction activities, during the GGS active season (May 1 to October 1), the Designated Biologist with Biological Monitor assistance conducts CDFW-approved preconstruction surveys within each Project site and a three-foot buffer, and Permittee submits the results to CDFW in the Construction Phase Authorization Package.

Byron Tract Forebay

In ProgressDue 2026-07-11

The Designated Representative sends CDFW written notice 14 calendar days before Covered Activities begin at a construction site within an approved Phase, and before Project operations begin. The notice identifies the site and the activities about to start.

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not StartedDue 2026-11-29

Twin Cities Complex

Not StartedDue 2026-06-25

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

Not StartedDue 2026-11-09

After construction, Permittee notifies CDFW 60 days before beginning any in-water maintenance, providing site locations, schedules, work activities, anticipated effects on water quality and Covered Species, and agency communications about temporary partial channel closures, and obtains CDFW's written approval before proceeding.

Byron Tract Forebay

In Progress

Intake B — North Delta

In Progress

Intake C — North Delta

In Progress

Within four months of recording or transfer of approved HM lands, field biologists complete a baseline biological assessment and land survey report for the property as the first of the start-up activities, alongside GIS data development and transfer where applicable.

Twin Cities Complex

Not StartedDue 2026-03-10

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

Not StartedDue 2026-11-08

Byron Tract Forebay

Not StartedDue 2026-03-21

Once CDFW approves HM lands, the Permittee develops and transfers GIS data where applicable, establishes initial fencing, removes litter, performs initial habitat restoration or enhancement where applicable, and installs signage. These start-up tasks complete on each approved HM land parcel.

Intake C — North Delta

On HoldDue 2026-08-10

Before Covered Activities start for each Phase, the Permittee completes purchase of Covered Species credits, required restoration, acquisition and permanent protection and transfer of all HM lands with conservation easements recorded, and funding for perpetual monitoring and management — or posts COA 13 Security covering every uncompleted obligation before impacts to Covered Species are incurred. The completion package is assembled and dated per Phase.

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Not StartedDue 2026-05-14

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

OverdueDue 2026-11-22

Twin Cities Complex

In ProgressDue 2026-05-01

Before incurring impacts to Covered Species, Permittee delivers to CDFW copies of the contracts or arrangements made under Water Code section 85089(a) and documentation, acceptable to CDFW, showing that the financial agreements covering repayment of Project bonds explicitly identify funding for pre-construction studies, monitoring and all other Conditions of Approval as Project construction costs.

Twin Cities Complex

Completed

Permittee designates an interim and a long-term land manager for the HM lands, obtains CDFW approval of each, and identifies both in the land management documents; the conservation easement grantee may not serve as manager without CDFW's express written authorization.

Intake B — North Delta

Completed

Intake C — North Delta

Not StartedDue 2026-11-15

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Not StartedDue 2026-12-18

If SWP charges to the SWP Contractors are no longer available as a funding source, the Permittee establishes a long-term management fund (Endowment) held in a CDFW-approved fund, permanently restricted to the perpetual management, maintenance, monitoring and stewardship of the HM lands and sized by the Property Analysis Records prepared under COAs 12.12 and 12.12.2.

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

Completed

Byron Tract Forebay

Completed

Each year beginning in the fiscal year SWP Contractor charges cease to be available, the Permittee deposits at least 10 percent of the PAR-required Endowment Deposit Amount, adjusted for inflation and present value, into the mutually agreed account, until the Endowment is fully funded over a maximum of 10 years. Each installment amount is as approved by CDFW in writing.

Twin Cities Complex

In ProgressDue 2026-09-121 of 3 done

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

In ProgressDue 2026-06-251 of 3 done

Byron Tract Forebay

Not StartedDue 2027-03-152 of 3 done

If anticipated habitat impacts in a given year would leave the 10 percent stay-ahead requirement unmet for a Covered Species, Permittee immediately notifies CDFW and provides a plan for permanent protection, and restoration if required, of the necessary HM lands before proceeding with the Covered Activities causing the impact.

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Not Started

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Overdue

Permittee notifies CDFW within 30 days of any subsequent change in the interim or long-term HM lands land manager.

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

In Progress

Twin Cities Complex

Not Started

Every individual protection and restoration project proposed to satisfy compensatory mitigation — Delta smelt tidal perennial, shallow spawning and tidal wetland habitat, longfin smelt mesohaline habitat, and CHNWR, CHNSR and white sturgeon tidal perennial and channel margin habitat — is submitted to CDFW with its restoration design and approved in writing before it counts toward the mitigation requirement.

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not StartedDue 2026-08-08

Twin Cities Complex

Completed

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

In ProgressDue 2026-11-10

Permittee obtains CDFW's written approval of any conservation easement over the HM lands before the easement is executed or recorded, with the easement complying with Civil Code sections 815-816 and Government Code sections 65965-65968 and expressly addressing sections 65966(j) and 65967(e).

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not StartedDue 2026-11-07

Twin Cities Complex

In ProgressDue 2026-10-09

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

Not StartedDue 2026-06-12

As a start-up activity on each approved Habitat Management lands parcel, Permittee prepares a final management plan and submits it to CDFW for approval; start-up activities continue until CDFW approves the plan.

Twin Cities Complex

Not StartedDue 2026-11-24

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

In ProgressDue 2026-09-18

For each Project Phase, Permittee prepares the cost estimate that sets the Security amount, sufficient for CDFW or its contractors to complete acquisition, protection and perpetual management of the COA 12 HM lands. The estimate values land acquisition at local fair market current value per acre for lands meeting mitigation habitat requirements, adds all other costs to review and acquire the land in fee title and record a conservation easement under COAs 12.11.1 and 12.11.2, and includes an…

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Completed

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Completed

Twin Cities Complex

In Progress

After CDFW approves an HM lands site, the Permittee provides that site's long-term management funding every year, in the amount set by the CDFW-approved Property Analysis Record or equivalent, adjusted for inflation and for actual management costs as CDFW approves, on written terms acceptable to CDFW.

Twin Cities Complex

Not StartedDue 2026-07-131 of 3 done

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

In ProgressDue 2026-10-241 of 3 done

Byron Tract Forebay

Not StartedDue 2026-09-221 of 3 done

For each HM lands parcel, Permittee provides CDFW a recent preliminary title report, a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment and the other documents CDFW lists, and secures approval of all conveyance documents and conditions of title from CDFW and, where applicable, the Wildlife Conservation Board and the Department of General Services.

Intake C — North Delta

Completed

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Not Started

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

In Progress

As CDFW bills them, the Permittee reimburses all reasonable CDFW costs related to issuance and monitoring of the ITP, including transaction, account set-up and administrative fees, title and documentation review and related title transactions, other state agency review costs, and overhead related to transfer of HM lands to CDFW.

Twin Cities Complex

Completed

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

Overdue

Byron Tract Forebay

In Progress

Within one year of State Water Board approval of the change in point of diversion, the Permittee submits an initial CESA mitigation funding strategy to CDFW for review and approval, with detailed cost estimates for construction-related monitoring and avoidance and for mitigation — bank credits; HM lands acquisition, start-up and interim management; restoration design, environmental review, permitting, construction and interim management; and long-term management of all HM lands. Detailed…

Twin Cities Complex

Not StartedDue 2026-10-101 of 3 done

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

In ProgressDue 2027-03-041 of 3 done

Byron Tract Forebay

In ProgressDue 2026-10-151 of 3 done

Permittee submits a copy of the Bill of Sale and Payment Receipt for purchased Covered Species credits to CDFW before initiating Covered Activities and in advance of incurring impacts to Covered Species habitat.

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not Started

Permittee shall either purchase Covered Species credits from a CDFW- approved mitigation or conservation bank pursuant to Condition of Approval 12.10 to achieve the acreage requirements described in Table 12-1 and Table 12-2, or shall provide for both the permanent protection, restoration, and initial and long-term management and monitoring of Habitat Management (HM) lands pursuant to Condition of Approval 12.11 below and consistent with Covered Species habitat criteria described in Attachment…

Transfer fee title of the HM lands to CDFW pursuant to terms approved in writing by CDFW.

Permittee shall ensure the ratio of cumulative HM lands protection and restoration for each Covered Species remains at least 10 percent (10%) greater than the proportional cumulative impacts to each Covered Species habitat until the compensatory mitigation acreages in Table 12-1 and Table 12-2 have been achieved.

Permittee shall integrate the results from the Ecological Response Evaluation Study: Delta Smelt and Longfin Smelt Spawning Habitat Study (Condition of Approval 10.21.5) into shallow spawning habitat design and implementation.

Interim management period activities described in the final management plan shall include fence repair, continuing trash removal, site monitoring, vegetation and invasive species management, and any other expected management activities.

Permittee shall monitor habitat mitigation sites for a period of at least 10 years to ensure the effectiveness both as refuge and spawning habitat.

During the permit term, Permittee shall demonstrate to CDFW that Covered Species’ requirements have been satisfied on an ongoing basis and consistent with the requirements of Condition of Approval 12, as evidenced by: • Written documentation of the acquisition of the HM lands; • Copies of all executed and recorded conservation easements; • Written confirmation from the approved Endowment Manager of its receipt of the full Endowment, if required; and • Timely submission of all required reports.

After the interim management period, Permittee shall ensure that the designated long-term land manager implements the management and monitoring of the HM lands according to the final management plan.

Upon State Water Board approval of the Project's change in point of diversion, the Permittee provides $8,000,000 for projects benefiting winter-run and spring-run Chinook salmon in the Delta or the Sacramento River watershed upstream of the Delta, and $1,300,000 for projects benefiting white sturgeon in the Sacramento River, Delta or San Joaquin watersheds. Project selection for both is subject to CDFW approval, and all approved white sturgeon projects are completed before Phase 1 Operations.

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

On HoldDue 2026-04-27

Byron Tract Forebay

Completed

No agreement governing the management and expenditure of the Endowment is executed until Permittee has obtained CDFW's written approval of it.

Intake B — North Delta

In Progress

Intake C — North Delta

On Hold

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Not Started

Once an Endowment is required and CDFW has approved the HM lands, the long-term management plan and the Endowment Manager, Permittee prepares a PAR-equivalent endowment assessment of the Endowment Deposit Amount, excluding the easement holder's endowment. The assessment applies the Endowment Manager's capitalization rate adjusted for administrative, periodic and annual fees, and includes the viability buffers: a 10 percent contingency, an assumption of no spending for the first three years…

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Not Started

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

In Progress

Permittee prepares the PAR-equivalent endowment assessment of the Endowment Deposit Amount and submits the results to CDFW for review and approval before transferring any funds to the Endowment Manager.

Intake C — North Delta

In Progress

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Completed

Where an Endowment is required, Permittee submits a written proposal naming the proposed Endowment Manager, its entity type, whether it holds the property or an interest for conservation under Government Code section 65968(b)(1) or the basis for a 65968(b)(2) exception, and a copy of its section 65968(e) certification.

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

On Hold

Permittee shall provide funding for interim management of the HM lands by using revenues derived from SWP charges to the SWP Contractors under long-term water supply contracts and any subsequent agreements.

the approved Endowment Manager may pool the Endowment with other endowments for the operation, management, and protection of HM lands for local populations of the Covered Species but shall maintain separate accounting for each Endowment.

With the draft Covered Fish Species Monitoring and Science Plan, the Permittee submits a funding strategy to CDFW for review and approval covering the costs of planning and implementing the required studies and monitoring and the costs of preparing and submitting the required reports.

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

In ProgressDue 2026-08-16

Byron Tract Forebay

In ProgressDue 2026-05-20

Before each Project Phase begins, Permittee calculates the total impacts on Covered Species for that Phase and the corresponding compensatory mitigation, on-site restoration and other mitigation obligations. The calculation is included in the Phase Authorization Package submitted to CDFW for review under COAs 6.2 and 7.1.

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Not StartedDue 2026-03-25

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

In ProgressDue 2026-10-15

No more than 14 days before Covered Activities begin at a construction site, Permittee photographs each distinct suitable habitat area with at least five photographs per area, one each from the north, south, east and west plus one facing the area, separately for each Covered Species' habitat, and files the images in the GIS habitat tracking.

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Not StartedDue 2026-11-01

Permittee photographs each established photo monitoring station before construction and every month until construction and initial restoration are complete, then every three months until restoration success is reached, visiting all stations within two days per cycle and delivering the images in a geographic format monthly with the Monthly Compliance Report and in full with the Annual Status Report.

Intake B — North Delta

Not StartedDue 2026-08-151 of 3 done

Before ground disturbance, Permittee establishes a representative number of numbered treatment transects in areas to be disturbed, pairs each with a reference site of intact habitat of similar slope, aspect and hydrology, photographs both in spring (March to June) while flowering plants are in bloom, and evaluates reference-site species composition to guide restoration.

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not StartedDue 2026-11-12

When impacts tracked for the Annual Status Report are likely to exceed the permanent or temporary impacts CDFW approved for any Covered Species, Permittee notifies CDFW and submits a revised Project Phase schedule within 10 business days of that notice, keeping temporary impacts within the COA 11.66 and 12.3 criteria.

Intake C — North Delta

Not Started

Permittee attaches to each Monthly Compliance Report the current GIS layers of suitable habitat features and disturbance with full metadata, plus cumulatively disturbed acreage per Covered Species and the acreage anticipated to be disturbed over the next 30 days. Updated per-species maps and an annual summation of all habitat feature disturbance go to CDFW with the Annual Status Report.

Intake B — North Delta

Not StartedDue 2026-09-032 of 3 done

A Fisheries Biologist or Biological Monitor visits each site requiring barges, including each north Delta intake and geotechnical exploration site, during the growing season before work begins, during construction, and annually for up to five years after construction, recording the extent of emergent and riparian vegetation, bank conditions on both riverbanks and general site conditions.

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

On HoldDue 2026-06-161 of 3 done

Byron Tract Forebay

Not StartedDue 2026-12-282 of 3 done

Intake B — North Delta

Not StartedDue 2027-01-012 of 3 done

Permittee verifies through Annual Status Report documentation of impacts and mitigation that the assumed impact multipliers for the 230 kV transmission lines and for preconstruction activities hold, comparing actual disturbance against the assumed tower footprint, work area and temporary surface impact shares.

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not StartedDue 2026-11-272 of 3 done

Twin Cities Complex

Not StartedDue 2027-06-022 of 3 done

Permittee shall maintain Geographic Information System (GIS) shapefile layers and associated maps depicting: 1) mapped areas of all land disturbances within each Project construction site; and 2) mapped areas of disturbed identified habitat features suitable for Covered Species (see Condition of Approval 10.4 for habitat features) within the Project construction site.

Permittee shall track suitable habitat for the Covered Species in each Project construction site and surrounding species-specific buffers.

The Permittee backfills every subsurface pit, trench and borehole from preconstruction field investigations with the excavated material, places stockpiled topsoil at the surface, and fully restores each investigation site under COA 12.3.3, within one year of initiating Covered Activities.

Intake C — North Delta

On HoldDue 2026-08-23

Before any temporary impact begins, Permittee develops a Temporary Impact Restoration Schedule ensuring invasive substrate removal, recontouring and seeding of each temporary impact area occur within the same year at times suited to seedling success, and that all prior-year temporary impacts meet the recontouring and seeding criteria and the vegetation success standards of the Restoration and Revegetation Plan.

Twin Cities Complex

OverdueDue 2026-09-24

Bouldin Island Geotechnical Exploration

In ProgressDue 2026-03-31

Before Phase 1 Operations begin, Permittee develops the Tidal Wetland Restoration Efficacy Study Plan, using Fish Restoration Program and other monitoring data to analyze how the restored tidal wetlands required by COAs 12.6 through 12.8 produce food web resources. Results are incorporated into the Covered Fish Species life cycle models to evaluate how the restoration offsets Project impacts against the Biological Criteria.

Intake B — North Delta

Not StartedDue 2026-08-07

Intake C — North Delta

In ProgressDue 2026-10-09

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Completed

Remove temporary fill and construction refuse upon completion of Covered Activities.

Byron Tract Forebay

OverdueDue 2026-06-19

If barge operations erode 20 percent or more of a bank, the Permittee retains a qualified restoration specialist to restore the eroding bank. The completed bank restoration is the tracked deliverable.

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

Not Started

Twin Cities Complex

In Progress

For every area temporarily disturbed by Covered Activities — power line work, SCADA and transmission corridors, access roads, channel and upland work, and the on-site acreages in Table 12-1 — the Permittee removes temporary fill, debris and stockpiles, regrades to pre-existing contour and hydrology, and recontours, reseeds and replants with CDFW-approved native species under the Restoration and Revegetation Plan. Each area is restored to pre-Project conditions or better within the year of the…

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Not StartedDue 2026-03-30

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

In ProgressDue 2026-03-30

Twin Cities Complex

Not StartedDue 2026-06-29

Permittee submits the Restoration and Revegetation Plan to CDFW in the appropriate Phase Authorization Package as construction plans are finalized and Covered Species suitable habitats are identified, covering the seventeen required elements from site conditions and nonnative removal through seed mixes, irrigation, weed management, fencing and signage to success standards and remedial actions, and including the species-specific restoration guidelines CDFW must approve. No Covered Activity…

Byron Tract Forebay

Not StartedDue 2026-04-09

Intake B — North Delta

In ProgressDue 2026-10-04

Intake C — North Delta

Not StartedDue 2026-07-23

For each restored site, Permittee submits the first monitoring report to CDFW six months after restoration is complete — covering vegetation establishment, percent invasive species, site photos and other success observations — a second at the end of the first year stating whether restoration succeeded, then annual reports until standards are met for three consecutive years, or semiannual reports while standards remain unmet.

Bethany Reservoir Aqueduct

Not StartedDue 2026-09-031 of 3 done

Southern Forebay & Pumping Plant

On HoldDue 2027-03-181 of 3 done

Twin Cities Complex

On HoldDue 2027-03-211 of 3 done

Minor recontouring may be conducted; however, Permittee shall limit grading, compaction, fill, and other earthmoving activities to the Project construction site.

Permittee shall oversee the management of invasive plants within Project construction sites and Project maintenance areas and may use control methods such as hand removal, light grubbing, mowing, or grazing within seeding and planting areas following vegetation restoration.

Permittee is responsible for monitoring and maintaining the habitat restoration areas for a period of three years or until the Restoration Plan success criteria have been met as determined by the Designated Biologist(s) and/or Biological Monitor(s) and CDFW in writing.

Permittee shall monitor the restoration for one year or until restoration success is achieved as determined by the Designated Biologist(s) and/or Biological Monitor(s) and CDFW.

Success standards to ensure a minimum of 70 percent survivorship for three years after the last planting at each site and proposed remedial actions if those standards are not met.

Seed mixes shall be identified for approval as part of the Restoration Plan and shall include a mix of locally native species and non-native forage species (no species designated by the California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC) as high or moderate invasive species may be used), including diverse assemblages of native and non-native flora, with an emphasis on nonnative bunchgrasses and other grassland species including local, native wildflowers and/or shrub seeds.

Minor recontouring may be conducted; however, Permittee shall limit grading, compaction, fill, and other earthmoving activities to the Project construction site.

Gravel and other invasive substrate shall be removed from restoration areas. (2) To the maximum extent feasible, topsoil shall be salvaged from within on-site Project areas prior to construction.

Seed mixes shall be identified for approval as part of the Restoration Plan and shall include a mix of locally native species and non-native forage species (no species designated by the California Invasive Plant Council (Cal-IPC) as high or moderate invasive species may be used), including diverse assemblages of native and non-native flora, with an emphasis on nonnative bunchgrasses and other grassland species including local, native wildflowers and/or shrub seeds.

Drivers may attempt to use adjacent shoulders for parking or to avoid ruts that form in roadways.