AJR 38 Summary

• Requests the United States Department of the Interior to expedite its study of the Two-Gates Fish Protection Demonstration Project in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta

• Allocates $28,000,000 in Proposition 84 funding for the project, supplemented by federal and private funds, to install barriers and gates that reduce loss of Delta smelt at state and federal pumps

• Emphasizes the project's urgency given the 2007-2009 drought's severe impacts on water supplies, fish populations, and rural farming communities in the San Joaquin Valley

• Acknowledges the need to balance California's coequal goals of protecting and restoring the Delta ecosystem while ensuring reliable water supply for millions of residents and acres of agricultural land

• Resolution was adopted by both the Assembly and Senate in August 2010 and filed with the Secretary of State on September 7, 2010