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• Preliminary Conservation Strategy
• DRECP Framework Conservation Strategy
• Main DRECP Documents
• Independent Science Advisors Documents
• Local Government Documents and Comments
• Background Documents

Filing Written Comments on the DRECP or DRECP NEPA/CEQA Documents

File written comments to the California Energy Commission Docket Office, Docket Number 09-RENEW EO-01, and indicate DRECP and the document you are commenting on in the subject line or first paragraph of your comments. If you are commenting on a DRECP NEPA/CEQA (environmental review) document, include DRECP NEPA/CEQA in the subject line or first paragraph of your comments. Hand deliver or mail an original copy of your comments to:

California Energy Commission
Dockets Office, MS-4
Docket No. 09-RENEW EO-01
1516 Ninth Street
Sacramento, CA 95814-5512
docket@energy.state.ca.us

If filing your written comments electronically, please include your name or organization’s name in the file name in either Microsoft Word format or as a Portable Document (PDF) to [docket@energy.state.ca.us]. Include DRECP and the DRECP document you are commenting on in the subject line or first paragraph of your comments. If you are commenting on a DRECP NEPA/CEQA (environmental review) document, include DRECP NEPA/CEQA in the subject line or first paragraph of your comments.

For your convenience, you may use this comment form to submit comments.

Preliminary Conservation Strategy

DRECP Preliminary Conservation Strategy. Updated October 26, 2011

Proposed Approach to the DRECP Effects Analysis. Posted July 1, 2011 (PDF file, 11 pages, 10.9 MB)

Approach to Structuring the Preliminary Conservation Strategy. Posted July 1, 2011 (PDF file, 10 pages, 320 kb)

Preliminary Conservation Strategy Rollout Schedule - DRECP Working Groups and Stakeholders - Selected Work Products for Review. Posted June 20, 2011

Public Comments (PDF files)

DRECP Framework Conservation Strategy

Draft DRECP Framework Conservation Strategy Report. Updated May 5, 2011

Draft Rollout Schedule - DRECP Working Groups and Stakeholders - Selected Framework Conservation Strategy / Work Products for Review
Posted April 7, 2011. (PDF file, 1 page, 111 kb)

Public Comments (PDF files)

Main DRECP Documents

Interim Process for DRECP Conservation Plan
Posted March 1, 2011. (PDF file, 4 pages, 1 MB)

DRECP Proposed Process and Schedule
(PDF file, 1 page, 185 kb)

DRECP Stakeholders Schedule
(PDF file, 1 page, 131 kb)

Best Management Practices and Guidance Manual: Desert Renewable Energy Projects
Posted January 26, 2011. Publication #REAT-1000-2010-009-F. (PDF file, 281 pages, 29 MB). Updated 5/25/2011.

The Energy Commission approved the Best Management Practices and Guidance Manual, with minor additions, at the December 15, 2010 Business Meeting. The manual is reformatted and edited for publication, per REAT agency direction.

Independent Science Advisors Documents

Recommendations of Independent Science Advisors for California DRECP. Posted: November 3, 2010. (PDF file, 192 pages, 2.68 megabytes)

Local Government Documents and Comments

Draft Proposal Kern County Participation in the Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan
Dated 12/14/2011. Posted December 20, 2011. (PDF file, 3 pages, 399 kb)

Inyo County Planning Department Comments
Dated 5/27/2011. Posted June 7, 2011. (PDF file, 4 pages, 135 kb)

DRECP letter in response to Supervisor Bob Buster
Dated 3/17/2011. Posted March 28, 2011. (PDF file, 4 pages, 496 kb)

San Bernardino County Position on Desert Renewable Energy Projects
Dated April 2010. Posted February 22, 2011. (PDF file, 2 pages, 82 kb)

Letter from Bob Buster, Riverside County Board of Supervisors, Re: Riverside County's Position on the DRECP
Dated: February 8, 2011. (PDF file, 2 pages, 573 kb)

Background Documents

Senate Bill 34

Interim Mitigation Strategy As Required by Senate Bill (SB) X8 34. Posted October 7, 2010. (PDF file, 83 pages, 4.3 megabytes)

Memoranda of Understanding (MOUs)

• State Lands Commission's Participation in the REAT and DRECP, September 13, 2011. (PDF file, 93 kb)
• NEWS RELEASE: "Innovative Federal and State Agreement Will Aid Proposed Renewable Energy Projects in Southern California", Joint News Release by National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, Fish and Wildlife Service, Bureau of Land Management, California Department of Fish and Game, and the California Energy Commission. May 19, 2010. (PDF file, 36 kb)
  
  • Memorandum of Agreement, May 19, 2010. (PDF file, 295 kb)
  • Frequently Asked Questions, May 19, 2010. (PDF file, 56 kb)
     
• Department of the Interior and State of California, October 12, 2009. (PDF file, 184 kb)
• California Energy Commission and the Department of Fish and Game MOU, November 2008. (PDF file, 102 kb)
• Energy Commission, DFG, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Bureau of Land Management MOU, November 2008. (PDF file, 284 kb)

Governor's Executive Order S-14-08, November 17, 2008.
(PDF file, 3 pages, 98 kilobytes)

General Comments

The Desert Renewable Energy Conservation Plan Comments from Tejon Ranch, April 18, 2011.
(PDF file, 2 pages, 821 kilobytes)