Description
The Bureau of Reclamation is seeking applications for the Central Valley Project Habitat & Facility Improvements program. The program aims to protect, restore, and enhance fish, wildlife, and associated habitats in the Central Valley and Trinity River basins of California. Eligible applicants include the State of California, Indian tribes, and non-profit entities concerned with restoration, protection, or enhancement of fish, wildlife, habitat, or environmental values. The program will provide funding for projects that enhance Chinook salmon and Steelhead trout production and associated habitats in the Central Valley. Some examples of eligible projects include creating new side channels, modifying existing side channels, placing woody material, boulders, and other structures to provide habitat for salmonids, and improving facilities to reduce their impact on fish survival and growth rates.
• Create new side channels and modify existing side channels to create and/or improve rearing habitats for the juvenile life stages of anadromous salmonids in the Central Valley rivers and tributaries
• Place woody material, boulders, and other structures as appropriate, to provide habitat for salmonids
• Create/enhance incrementally inundating floodplain habitat
• Provide spawning habitat/coarse (spawning sized) substrate
• Provide passage to and from disconnected habitats
• Improve facilities by reducing their impact on fish survival and growth rates, such as inclusion of fish screens on diversions, modifications to allow for broader range of operation, increased frequency of operation, or to reduce the incidence of predation at a facility
• Conduct pre-and post-project site surveys, per the SIT Tier 1 Monitoring guidance, and monitoring to document the effectiveness of projects at improving salmonid habitat
• Coordinate activities with a local watershed restoration group or an interagency restoration group consisting of agencies and local stakeholders