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Eastern San Joaquin Groundwater Basin Groundwater Management Plan Northeastern San Joaquin County Section 9 Groundwater Banking Authority 146 Plan Implementation 9 Plan Implementation The Authority is committed to adopting a Plan implementation strategy that is adaptive and incentive driven. This Plan is the first step in the development of a regional document that details how the groundwater basin will be managed and initiates the process that will ultimately define the guidelines and conditions that water districts and others will follow to achieve basin management objectives. Following the adoption of this Plan, the Authority and its members will work to implement the management objectives. The objectives coupled with regular groundwater monitoring and the development of basin operations criteria will establish a framework and the foundational information for future groundwater banking and recharge project operations in the Basin. 9.1 Plan Implementation Reports To encourage the continued implementation of the Plan, the Authority will complete a periodic assessment of the progress, direction and recommendations regarding Plan objectives. Basin hydrogeologic conditions are currently measured by groundwater level and quality monitoring on a semi-annual basis. This assessment activity will be coupled with the annual review of Plan implementation activities and project development in the basin. To ensure that the Authority is constantly striving to better manage groundwater resources, the following actions will be undertaken: 1. Produce an annual report by March 1st of each year that outlines the accomplishments of the previous year’s groundwater management efforts and report the current state of the Basin; 2. Review changes in political, institutional, social, or economic factors affecting groundwater management; and 3. Based on the information gained in the above actions, provide recommendations for any required amendments to the Plan. 9.2 Future Activities The adoption of the Plan is merely the beginning of a series of actions the Authority will undertake to help meet future basin demands. As such, many of the identified actions will likely evolve as the Authority takes a more active approach to manage the basin and meet the outlined objectives. Many additional actions will also be identified in the annual summary report described above. The Plan is therefore intended to be an iterative document, and it will be important to evaluate all of the actions and objectives over time to determine how well they are meeting the overall goal of the plan. The Authority plans to evaluate this entire plan within five years of adoption. In the immediate future, the Authority and its member agencies will undertake the following planned activities described below subsequent to the adoption of the Plan. 9.2.1 Integrated Conjunctive Use Program CEQA Review The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) allows agencies to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Report (EIR) for a proposed course of action. The Integrated Conjunctive Use Program is a grouping of stand alone projects that could have very different specific environmental impacts, but would also have to address many of the same global environmental