AFRP OVERVIEW

On October 30, 1992, President George Herbert Walker Bush signed into law the Reclamation Projects Authorization and Adjustment Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-575), including Title XXXIV, the Central Valley Project Improvement Act CVPIA. The CVPIA directed the Secretary of the Interior to amend previous authorizations of California's Central Valley Project to:

"include fish and wildlife protection, restoration, and mitigation as project purposes having equal priority with irrigation and domestic use and fish and wildlife enhancement as a project purpose equal to power generation."

Section 3406(b)(1) of the CVPIA directs the Secretary of the Interior to develop and implement a program that makes all reasonable efforts to at least double natural production of anadromous fish in California's Central Valley streams on a long-term, sustainable basis. The major resulting program is known as the Anadromous Fish Restoration Program. Since 1995, the AFRP has helped implement over 195 projects to restore natural production of anadromous fish.