THURSDAY, MAY 14

8:30     Registration and Continental Breakfast

9:00     Welcome and Introduction

Overview of Day One

Paul “Skip” Spaulding III, Esq., Program Co-Chair

Farella Braun + Martel, San Francisco

Alan B. Lilly, Esq., Program Co-Chair

Bartkiewicz, Kronick & Shanahan, Sacramento

9:15     Overview of California Water Law Part I

Background of California Water Rights Law and Current Issues

Alan B. Lilly, Esq., Program Co-Chair

10:00   Morning Break

10:15   OWL v. Rohnert Park

Water Supply Assessment; The Case and Its Context

Roderick Walston, Esq.

Best, Best & Krieger, Walnut Creek

11:00   Is Desalination the Future of the Monterey Peninsula Water Supply?

Part I: Desalination Legal Issues

Lenard G. Weiss, Esq.

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, San Francisco

David C. Laredo, Esq.

De Lay & Laredo, Pacific Grove, and

General Counsel

Monterey Peninsula Water Management District

Louise Warren, Esq., Staff Counsel

California Coastal Commission, San Francisco

12:30   Lunch Break

1:45     Is Desalination the Future of the Monterey Peninsula Water Supply?

Part II: Desalination Policy Issues

B. Kent Turner, President

California American Water (Cal Am), Monterey

Jim Heitzman, General Manager

Marina Coast Water District, Marina

Tom Luster, Staff Environmental Scientist

California Coastal Commission, San Francisco

John A. Bohn, Esq., Commissioner

California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco

3:15     Afternoon Break

3:30     Keynote Panel Presentation

The Bay Delta: Legal Issues

ESA Issues

Doug Obegi, Esq., Staff Attorney, Western Water Project

Natural Resources Defense Council, San Francisco

Bay-Delta Conservation Plan

Michelle Morrow, Esq., Senior Staff Counsel, Office of Chief Counsel

California Department of Water Resources, Sacramento

What the Board Plans to Do

Arthur G. Baggett Jr., Esq., Board Member

California Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento

4:30     Ethics: Thorny Privilege and Investigation Dilemmas

Joint Defense and Common Interest Agreements; Shared Consultants and Experts; Ex Parte Communications with Government Employees

Pamela Phillips, Esq.

Howard Rice Nemerovski Canady Falk & Rabkin, San Francisco

5:30     Adjourn

FRIDAY, MAY 15

8:30     Continental Breakfast

9:00     Welcome Back

Overview of Day Two

Paul “Skip” Spaulding III, Esq., Program Co-Chair

Alan B. Lilly, Esq., Program Co-Chair

9:15     Overview of California Water Law Part II

Background of Federal and State Water Quality Law

Paul “Skip” Spaulding III, Esq., Program Co-Chair

10:00   Morning Break

10:15   Hot Topics

Recent Water Cases Before the United States Supreme Court

Richard Frank, Esq., Executive Director

California Center for Environmental Law & Policy (CCELP), and

Lecturer in Residence

University of California School of Law, Berkeley

David J. Lazerwitz, Esq.

Farella Braun + Martel, San Francisco

11:15   Featured Presentation

EPA’s 2009 Water Quality Issues: Initiatives, Priorities and Strategies

Alexis Strauss, Director, Water Division

US EPA Region 9, San Francisco

12:15   Lunch Break

1:30     FERC 401 Certifications

Relicensing Hydroelectric Projects

Jesse W. Barton, Esq.

Gallery & Barton, Sacramento

Charlton “Chuck” H. Bonham, Esq.

California Director Senior Attorney

Trout Unlimited, Berkeley

Andrew Sawyer, Esq., Assistant Chief Counsel

California Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento

2:45     Afternoon Break

3:00     Water for People, Fish and Wine

The North Coast Instream Flow Policy

Victoria Whitney, Deputy Director

California Water Resources Control Board, Sacramento

Brian Johnson, Esq., Staff Attorney and Project Manager

California Water Project

Trout Unlimited, Berkeley

Marc Kelley, Consultant and Lobbyist

Kelley/ Wasem, Santa Rosa

4:15     Q&A Panel

Members of the Faculty

4:30     Evaluations and Adjourn

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PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

	Alan B. Lilly has 27 years of experience in water resources law. He represents public agencies and private clients in water resource and environmental matters before the State Water Resources Control Board, in the courts, and in contract negotiations and related matters.
	Paul “Skip” Spaulding III leads his firm’s natural resources group. He has 27 years of experience in environmental compliance and litigation, specializing in water, wetlands, species, NEPA, CEQA and RCRA issues. He represents private and public clients throughout the western U.S.

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