On July 11, 2019, a meeting was held at the Yuba Water Agency F Street offices in Marysville. The subject was about designating the US Department of Agriculture Rural Development the Lead Agency for the Forbestown Ditch piping project. As the Lead Agency, the USDA would declare the project Categorial Exclusion under the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) and, therefore also exempted under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). A Categorial Exclusion means no environmental documentation would be required and costly mitigations that might make the project financially infeasible.

At this meeting or involved in the planning of this meeting were:

• YWA Director Randy Fletcher
• YWA Assistant General Manager Willie Whittlesey

• Neil Graber
• Kristen McKillop
• Kamie Loeser

• Pete Yribarren
• Kim Vann
• Justin Garey
• William McLemore
• Greg York

• Fabian Ramos

• Matt Rogers

list of items posted on north yuba water district public record documents

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