The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA) delegates different administrative and regulatory
functions to the Department of Water Resources (Department) and the State Water Resources Control Board (Board),
respectively. Chapter 10 of SGMA (Water Code §§10733-10733.8) addresses state evaluation and assessment
of groundwater sustainability plans (GSPs), which is delegated to and performed by the Department. The table below
lists groundwater basins subject to SGMA whose initial GSPs were submitted to, and evaluated by, the Department
and were determined to be inadequate. Those GSPs and the Department's initial assessments and inadequate
determinations can be found here: https://sgma.water.ca.gov/portal/gsp/all.
The Department's inadequate determinations triggered Chapter 11 of SGMA (Water Code §§10735-10736.6),
the state intervention procedures, which are delegated to and performed by the Board. Accordingly, the Department
referred these basins to the Board's jurisdiction for further review and proceedings under those provisions.
The Department will not evaluate or assess any GSPs covering these basins under the provisions of Chapter 10
until the Board notifies the Department that state intervention is complete and transfers these basins back to
the Department's jurisdiction.
For more information regarding the Board's current state intervention process, regulatory actions, and efforts
in these basins to be relieved from state intervention, or to provide comments to the Board regarding state
intervention issues these issues, refer to the Board's SGMA website and for each basin using the weblinks in the
table below. Additional information related to these issues and SGMA compliance in each groundwater basin may
also be available from specific, local GSAs and the points of contact for each basin. Listings of GSAs and
points of contact for all groundwater basins subject to SGMA can be found here: https://sgma.water.ca.gov/portal/gsa/all.