California governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order giving 270 days for the approval of the environmental impact report holding up construction of the Sites Reservoir. The Sites Reservoir, considered by water experts to be a top priority, is 1.5 million acre-feet, $4 billion reservoir funded by voters in 2014 with water infrastructure bond Proposition 1, which is yet to have brought a single project to completion, that can hold enough water to serve three million households for one year. SB 149, signed into law by Newsom earlier this year, allows the governor to require that court rulings on environmental impact reports filed by the government for infrastructure projects certified as priorities by the governor be issued within 270 days, instead of being drawn out potentially indefinitely as possible under current California Environmental Quality Act regulations.
