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<div dir="ltr"><b>From:</b> "Kris Beal, Vineyard Team" <kris@vineyardteam.org><br>
<b>Date:</b> June 19, 2020 at 10:22:23 AM PDT<br>
<b>To:</b> Bill Cooper <bill@cgv.com><br>
<b>Subject:</b> <b>COMMENTS DUE MONDAY | Ag Order 4.0</b><br>
<b>Reply-To:</b> kris@vineyardteam.org<br>
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<div><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Written comments are due MONDAY, June 22, 2020 by 11:59 PM </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 18px;">This draft is NOT business as usual and will require costly and burdensome reporting requirements for vineyard operators, including SIP Certified operations.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">NOW </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">is the time for you to act. We need as
</span><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">MANY INDIVIDUAL </span><span style="font-size: 18px;">letters as possible to influence this document.</span>
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<div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Below are guidelines to help with your letters.</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 18px; font-weight: bold;">Written comments are due MONDAY, June 22, 2020 by 11:59 PM </span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Submit: </span><a href="mailto:AgNOI@waterboards.ca.gov" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-size: 18px; color: #1E88B4; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;">AgNOI@waterboards.ca.gov</a><span style="font-size: 18px;"> </span>
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<div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Subject Line: “Comments on Draft Ag Order” </span>
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<div><span style="font-size: 18px;">BCC: kris@vineyardteam.org (so I can track progress)</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Thanks in advance,</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-size: 18px;">Kris Beal, Executive Director</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;">Matthew T. Keeling, Executive Officer</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;">895 Aerovista Place, Suite 101</span></div>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;">Information on Your Operation:</span></div>
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<li style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Location, Acres</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Farming practices that protect water quality (low applied irrigation, low applied nutrients, nutrient budgets
to determine efficient nutrient rates, pest management, keeping pesticides on site, reducing/minimizing storm water runoff, cover cropping, erosion control)</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Participation in sustainability programs (SIP, VT membership, tailgates, research projects)</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Communicate commitment to protect surface and water quality - you live in the region, have family in the
region, and rely on water for your farming operation</span> </li></ul>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;">Current Draft is Complex & Burdensome without Providing a Benefit to Water Quality</span></div>
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<li style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The current Draft, EIR, and Attachments are long (900 pages), complicated, and confusing with different
reporting and timelines for different constituencies.</span> </li><li style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">While the staff outreach webinars did a good job of explaining the priority areas in their outreach webinars,
details on the annual reporting were insufficient. If the annual reporting can not be described in a 2 hour webinar, then the content of those requirements should be seriously reconsidered.</span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">The reporting is overly burdensome, expensive for growers and staff, and will not improve water quality.</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Furthermore, the extent and scope of information required is so great, that it is doubtful that staff could
analyze and act on the information in a meaningful and timely way to feedback to growers to improve water quality.</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition, the Draft’s economic analysis is fully insufficient and does not account for land fallowing,
hiring professionals, loss of production, and several other costs associated with the grower requirements of this Draft.</span>
</li><li style="color: rgb(235, 76, 57); font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(235, 76, 57); font-weight: bold;"><</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(235, 76, 57); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">OFFER
SPECIFIC INFORMATION ON THE COSTS TO YOU TO COMPLETE ANNUAL REPORTING, IMPLEMENT PRACTICES, HIRE PROFESSIONALS TO DEVELOP PLANS, CREATE BUFFER AREAS></span>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;">Current Draft Priorities and Phases Ignores Low Risk Operations </span></div>
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<li style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Draft only considers geographic location and not operational risk to water quality. All growers are required
to complete all reporting (eventually, and in compressed phasing timelines) regardless of operational risk.</span>
</li><li style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Vineyards are a low risk to water quality and should be handled separately regarding monitoring and reporting.</span>
</li><li style="margin-left: 3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Vineyards currently meet the 2050 Nitrogen Loading threshold and should be exempted from
monitoring and reporting related to groundwater. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">(offer specific information for your operation)</span>
</li><li style="margin-left: 3em; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Vineyards do not have tailwater and maintain winter cover, therefore their monitoring
and reporting should reflect that operational risk </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">(offer specific information for your operation)</span>
</li><li style="margin-left: 3em; font-size: 14px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">Vineyards have existing buffer zones to allow for equipment passage and turnaround. Removing vineyards to
expand the buffer will disrupt the soils and provide an increased risk to water quality. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-style: italic;">(offer specific information for your
operation, including any loss of productive land due to increased buffers around riparian areas). </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(235, 76, 57); font-style: italic; font-weight: bold;">(For
information on setbacks and locate your vineyard on the maps >> </span><a href="http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001qo5En9kwNy9gQzlP17eyYMEVw5HMS3qjPk3QnHvhNmW2JY_bol0tE2cWvcpqr0P7tJcLdsYi3Y0JFBSYLNMeyoDbScEwbhfokOMn_psG3LeczULYpAEmkpiRTUyXyHQHl-LNsjvz3YlJ5eoKST74CSfJyvnzx1IBMgRdfmyXzl150CrDTGJ5wBdzsqSKvF8j6CF5n7XxGPAiObU85rkFW3vehCGFkbQ584E_WH3dezDV6hNdrIvD7gIWJcNxOPZM-VCTnbYWFRA=&c=qcTeRVrUq1GYpd-cZ5sWZ9alq4nx-P0OYgc9pDW9U4LUxnQRfSB0fg==&ch=vr4bGHs2FZwUK7XD8jSS-I6bptdSDIiMtZBE2PTamhvG5qv7mrOuqQ==" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank" style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(235, 76, 57); font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-decoration: underline;">https://gispublic.waterboards.ca.gov/portal/apps/View/index.html?appid=02ac0fe36a544511b498783a8a9a585c</a><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(235, 76, 57); font-weight: bold;"> )</span>
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<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;">SIP Certified Should be Recognized as an Alternative Compliance Pathway and Current SIP Documentation Should be Recognized in Lieu
of Farm Planning Requirements </span></div>
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<li style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(235, 76, 57);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(235, 76, 57); font-style: italic;"><Insert your experience with certification - practices, documentation, costs
associated with SIP Certified></span> </li><li style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">As currently written, SIP Certified would not qualify as 3rd party. The framework of the requirements for
a 3rd party imply a program that itself monitors water quality, rather than a program that certifies implementation of practices, water/nutrient budgeting, etc. </span>
</li><li style="font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">If staff intends for a certification program to quality, these requirements must be edited.</span>
</li><li style="margin-left: 3em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SIP Certified operators should have an alternative Annual Compliance process to avoid
duplicative documentation.</span> </li><li style="margin-left: 3em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SIP Certified operators are required to implement practices that protect water quality
and are verified by an independent inspector.</span> </li><li style="margin-left: 3em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SIP Certification Documentation (Irrigation, Nutrients, Erosion, Pest, Riparian) should
be recognized in lieu of Farm Plans.</span> </li><li style="margin-left: 3em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SIP Certified operators, who are required to complete GW testing, should be allowed for
this to be recognized without requiring additional analyses.</span> </li><li style="margin-left: 3em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SIP Certified operators, who are required to complete irrigation and nutrient reporting,
should be allowed for this to be recognized without additional reporting.</span>
</li><li style="margin-left: 3em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SIP Certified operators are required to have a set back from blue-line streams and should
be exempted from additional riparian requirements</span> </li><li style="margin-left: 3em; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);">SIP Certified operators are required to have an erosion plan and implement several winter
erosion practices, this should be recognized without additional work.</span> </li></ul>
<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-weight: bold; font-size: 14px;">Closing</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family: Arial, Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14px;">I encourage staff to consider modifying this draft to consider alternative compliance for low risk vineyards, leveraging current successful efforts,
such as SIP Certified, and creating a framework that incentivizes adoption of practices that protect water quality by reducing the regulatory requirements. These changes would reflect the direction from the Board over the last several years in addition to
vineyard stakeholders who are affected by this Order.</span></div>
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