California Water Law - Dealing with the Delta, Desalination and Drought
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| Hyatt Regency 1 Old Golf Course Road Monterey, CA 93940 |
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THURSDAY, MAY 14
8:30 Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome and Introduction
Overview of Day One
Paul “Skip” Spaulding III, Esq., Program Co-Chair
Farella Braun + Martel, San Francisco
Alan B. Lilly, Esq., Program Co-Chair
Bartkiewicz, Kronick & Shanahan, Sacramento
9:15 Overview of California Water Law Part I
Background of California Water Rights Law and Current Issues
Alan B. Lilly, Esq., Program Co-Chair
10:00 Morning Break
10:15 OWL v. Rohnert Park
Water Supply Assessment; The Case and Its Context
Roderick Walston, Esq.
Best, Best & Krieger, Walnut Creek
11:00 Is Desalination the Future of the Monterey Peninsula Water Supply?
Part I: Desalination Legal Issues
Lenard G. Weiss, Esq.
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, San Francisco
David C. Laredo, Esq.
De Lay & Laredo, Pacific Grove, and
General Counsel
Monterey Peninsula Water Management District
Louise Warren, Esq., Staff Counsel
California Coastal Commission, San Francisco
12:30 Lunch Break
1:45 Is Desalination the Future of the Monterey Peninsula Water Supply?
Part II: Desalination Policy Issues
B. Kent Turner, President
California American Water (Cal Am), Monterey
Jim Heitzman, General Manager
Marina Coast Water District, Marina
Tom Luster, Staff Environmental Scientist
California Coastal Commission, San Francisco
John A. Bohn, Esq., Commissioner
California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco
3:15 Afternoon Break
3:30 Keynote Panel Presentation
The Bay Delta: Legal Issues
ESA Issues
Doug Obegi, Esq., Staff Attorney, Western Water Project
Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco
Bay-Delta Conservation Plan
Michelle Morrow, Esq., Senior Staff Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel
California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento
What the Board Plans to Do
Arthur G. Baggett Jr., Esq., Board Member
California Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento
4:30 Ethics: Thorny Privilege and Investigation Dilemmas
Joint Defense and Common Interest Agreements; Shared Consultants and Experts; Ex Parte Communications with Government Employees
Pamela Phillips, Esq.
Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco
5:30 Adjourn
FRIDAY, MAY 15
8:30 Continental Breakfast
9:00 Welcome Back
Overview of Day Two
Paul “Skip” Spaulding III, Esq., Program Co-Chair
Alan B. Lilly, Esq., Program Co-Chair
9:15 Overview of California Water Law Part II
Background of Federal and State Water Quality Law
Paul “Skip” Spaulding III, Esq., Program Co-Chair
10:00 Morning Break
10:15 Hot Topics
Recent Water Cases Before the United States Supreme Court
Richard Frank, Esq., Executive Director
California Center for Environmental Law & Policy (CCELP), and
Lecturer in Residence
University of California School of Law, Berkeley
David J. Lazerwitz, Esq.
Farella Braun + Martel, San Francisco
11:15 Featured Presentation
EPA’s 2009 Water Quality Issues: Initiatives, Priorities and Strategies
Alexis Strauss, Director, Water Division
US EPA Region 9, San Francisco
12:15 Lunch Break
1:30 FERC 401 Certifications
Relicensing Hydroelectric Projects
Jesse W. Barton, Esq.
Gallery & Barton, Sacramento
Charlton “Chuck” H. Bonham, Esq.
California Director Senior Attorney
Trout Unlimited, Berkeley
Andrew Sawyer, Esq., Assistant Chief Counsel
California Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento
2:45 Afternoon Break
3:00 Water for People, Fish and Wine
The North Coast Instream Flow Policy
Victoria Whitney, Deputy Director
California Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento
Brian Johnson, Esq., Staff Attorney and Project Manager
California Water Project
Trout Unlimited, Berkeley
Marc Kelley, Consultant and Lobbyist
Kelley/ Wasem, Santa Rosa
4:15 Q&A Panel
Members of the Faculty
4:30 Evaluations and Adjourn
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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
| <img src="http://www.cle.com/images/imagefiles/MONWAT09/lilly.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="125" height="175" align="baseline" /> |
Alan B. Lilly has 27 years of experience in water resources law. He represents public agencies and private clients in water resource and environmental matters before the State Water Resources Control Board, in the courts, and in contract negotiations and related matters. |
| <img src="http://www.cle.com/images/imagefiles/MONWAT09/spaulding.jpg" border="0" alt="" width="125" height="175" align="baseline" /> |
Paul “Skip” Spaulding III leads his firm’s natural resources group. He has 27 years of experience in environmental compliance and litigation, specializing in water, wetlands, species, NEPA, CEQA and RCRA issues. He represents private and public clients throughout the western U.S. |
FACULTY MEMBERS
BLUE RIBBON SESSION
John A. Bohn was appointed by Governor
Schwarzenegger in 2005. He serves as a Director of
the National Endowment for Democracy and was
previously with the Reagan Administration.
Jim Heitzman is an industry veteran with 30 years
of experience. He was previously Assistant General
Manager of the Monterey Regional Water Pollution
Control Agency and is presently the General
Manager of Marina Coast Water District.
Tom Luster advises the Commission on
desalination-related policies and projects. He was
the primary author of the Commission’s 2004
report on seawater desalination and Co-Chair of
California’s Desalination Task Force in 2003.
B. Kent Turner has over 25 years of water industry
experience. He reinforces and strengthens
customer, regulatory and local government
relationships and drives operational and financial
results.
KEYNOTE PANELISTS
Arthur G. Baggett Jr. co-founded Merced Canyon
Committee, which successfully advocated for
protection of the upper Merced River. He also
served two terms as a member of the Mariposa
County Board of Supervisors.
Michelle Morrow has been in-house counsel for
the Department since the inception of the Bay
Delta Conservation Plan Steering Committee. She
focuses on environmental review of restoration
projects and land use issues in the Delta.
Doug Obegi worked as a policy analyst for a
national environmental group before going to law
school. He presently works to help restore the Bay-
Delta and protect its wildlife.
FEATURED PRESENTER
Alexis Strauss joined the EPA 30 years ago,
working on RCRA and Superfund programs before
working on the implementation of the Clean Water
Act and Safe Drinking Water Act. She recently
received a Presidential Rank Award.
FACULTY MEMBERS
Jesse W. Barton practices water rights, water
law, public agency law and environmental law
and represents a wide variety of public agencies,
corporations, and private individuals.
Charlton “Chuck” H. Bonham is responsible
for developing, managing, and implementing
Trout Unlimited’s programs in California. He was
previously a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal.
Richard Frank joined Boalt Hall in 2006 from the
California Department of Justice, where he served
as the Chief Deputy Attorney General for Legal
Affairs. He is an expert in environmental law, land
use, energy issues and property rights.
Brian Johnson works to reform state water law
and promote scientifically sound stream flows for
trout and salmon. He was previously with Shute,
Mihaly & Weinberger, a public interest law firm.
Marc Kelley and his partner coordinate the
Sonoma County Salmon Coalition. One of the goals
of the Coalition is to address the water demands
of salmonids while protecting the agricultural
viability of the region.
David C. Laredo represents public agencies
and nonprofit agencies, and has extensive
experience in municipal law, water law, public
utilities law and adoptions law. He previously
served as Deputy County Counsel for the
County of Monterey.
David J. Lazerwitz counsels publicc and private
clients in environmental and natural resources
compliance, permitting and litigation matters.
Pamela Phillips is Co-Chair of her firm’s
Professional Responsibility Practice Group. She
focuses on attorney liability, legal ethics, legal
malpractice, law firm risk management and
complex business litigation.
Andrew Sawyer is responsible for managing
the activities of the State Water Resources
Control Board’s Office of Chief Counsel involving
water rights and underground storage tanks.
Roderick Walston has extensive experience in
natural resources and environmental law. He
has worked as a litigator with state regulatory
agencies and as a manager of litigation for
federal and state agencies in these areas.
Louise Warren provides legal advice to
the Energy, Ocean Resources and Federal
Consistency Division as well as the Coastal
Commission’s San Diego and Central Coast
offices. She was previously with Farella, Braun +
Martel.
Lenard G. Weiss has over 45 years’ experience
in complex business and commercial litigation.
He is an expert in California water law, having
represented major water companies and
a number of smaller water, telephone and
transportation utilities.
Victoria Whitney has worked for the Division
since 1984. In addition to directing its dayto-
day operations. She has assisted the
Attorney General’s Office and the courts in the
determination of several water rights issues.
Tuition:
$ 795 per person.
$ 695 each for two or more.
$ 695 each for government, 501(c)(3) organizations, full-time judges, law students and paralegals.
$ 595 each for two or more government, 501(c)(3) organizations, full-time judges, law students and paralegals.
Home Study:
Audio transcript and course materials
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Cancellation:
Full tuition refunds (less a $50 administrative charge) will be given only if notice of cancellation is received by 5:00 p.m. MST the Friday prior to the Conference. Substitutions may be made at any time.
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