Agenda
9:00 am ​
Registration & Continental Breakfast
9:30 am
Welcome & Introductory Speaker
Welcome & Introductions
Tom Hicks, 3L, USF School of Law
Welcome to USF
Dean Jeffrey Brand, USF School of Law
"The Central Role of Water in California Life"
Prof. Harrison Dunning, University of California at Davis, King Hall
10:00 am
​Concurrent Panels: Session I
Management of the Klamath River (Room 100)
Transfers & Diversions through the Bay Delta (Room 101)
11:15 am
​Break
11:30 am
​Concurrent Panels: Session II
Market Deregulation & Its Impact on Hydroenergy (Room 102
Groundwater (Room 100)
12:45 pm
Lunch & Keynote Address ( Room 100 & Overflow Room 101)
Introduction
Prof. Alice Kaswan, USF School of Law
"Water Futures"
Prof. Barton Thompson, Stanford Institute for the Environment
2:00 pm
Concurrent Panels: Session III
Water Quality (Room 101)
Show me the Water: Linking Land Use Planning and Water Supplies (Room 100)
3:15 pm
Reception (Rotunda Second Floor)

Panel Description

Management of the Klamath River (Room 100)

Moderator

John D. Leshy
University of California, Hastings College of the Law​

Panelists

Chuck Bonham
Trout Unlimited
  • Out with the Old and In with the New: Changing
    the Management and Stakeholder Perspective
    ​in the Klamath River"
Zeke Grader
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations
  • ​"Commercial Fishermen's Perspective"
Paul Simmons
Somach, Simmons & Dunn
  • "Klamath Project Irrigation Perspective"
Bud Ullman
Klamath Tribes
  • "Klamath Tribes' Perspective"

Transfers & Diversions through the Bay Delta (Room 101)

Moderator

Michael Van Zabdt
McQuaid, Bedford, & Van Zandt LLP

Panelists

Paul Bartkiewicz
Bartkiewicz, Kronick and Shanahan
  • "A Case History - The Yuba Experience: Managing Water Transfers To Avoid Adverse Impacts To Others"
Tony Francois
California Farm Bureau Federation
Cliff Lee
California Deputy Attorney General
  • "AG's Perspective"
Mike Wall
Natural Resources Defense Council
  • "The CVP, the Law, and Californias Water Future"

Market Deregulation & Its Impact on Hydroenergy (Room 102)

Moderator

Prof. Alice Kaswan
Bartkiewicz, Kronick and Shanahan

Panelists

Robert Byrne
California Attorney General
  • "AG's Perspective"
Richard Moss
Pacific Gas & Electric Company
  • "PG&E's Role in Hydropower"
Richard Roos-Collins
Natural Heritage Institute (NHI)
  • "What Impact of What Deregulation"
David Sandino
California Department of Water Resources, University of
San Francisco School of Law
  • "DWR's Perspective"

Groundwater (Room 100)

Moderator

Brent Haddad
UC Santa Cruz

Panelists

Arthur Baggett, Jr. 
State Water Resources Control Board
  • "SWRCB Perspective"
Rob Donlan
Ellison, Schneider & Harris
  • "New Guidance Regarding SWRCB Jurisdiction Over Subterranean Waters, or More of the Same?"
David Guy
Northern California Water Association
  • "Groundwater Law"
Josh Milstein
San Francisco Office of the City Attorney
  • "Groundwater Development in the Westside Basin:
    ​Resolving Conflicts in a Cooperative Fashion"

Water Quality (Room 101)

Moderator

Michael Lozeau
Earth Justice

Panelists

Kristen Castanos
Somach, Simmons, & Dunn
  • "Water Quality from the Municipal Perspective"
Leo O'Brien
WaterKeepers Northern California
  • "WaterKeeper Alliance"
Roderick Walston
Best, Best & Krieger
  • "Federalism and the Clean Water Act: Swancc
    ​and Miccosukee Tribe"
Craig Wilson
State Water Resources Control Board
  • "Issue Summaries"

Show me the Water: Linking Land Use Planning and Water Supplies (Room 100)

Moderator

Randy Kanouse
East Bay Municipal Utility District

Panelists

Barry Epstein
Fitzgerald, Abbott & Beardsley LLP
  • "Sprawl and Paper Water: A Reality Check
    from ​the California Courts"
Andrew Lloyd
Pacific Legal Foundation
  • "Property Rights Perspective"
Clark Morrison
Morrison & Foerster
  • " The Legal Nexus between Water Supply and Land
    ​Use Planning: Views from the Development Community"
Tony Rossmann
Rossmann & Moore
  • "Can California Make Peace with its  Neighbors and Itself?"

Thank You to Our Sponsors

Host Sponsor
  • University of San Francisco
Participant Schools
  • UC Berkeley School of Law
    ​Golden Gate University
  • University of the Pacific McGeorge School of Law
  • UC Davis School of Law
  • UC Hasting College of Law
Advertising Sponsor
  • Maven's Notebook
  • The Bar Association of San Francisco
  • McCarthy Center For Public Service and the
    ​Common Good
  • University of San Francisco
Keynote Sponsors
  • ​Briscoe Ivester & Bazel LLP
Symposium Sponsors
  • Stoel Rives LLP
  • Water and Power Law Group PC
Panel Sponsors
  • Hanson Bridgett
  • Schneider & Harris LLP
  • RMM
  • Somach Simmons & Dunn
  • Downey Brand LLP Ellison
  • Kronick Moskovitz Tiedemann & Girard
Contributing Sponsors
  • University of San Francisco Master of Science
    ​in Environmental Management
  • Rossmann and Moore
  • Cline Family Cellars
  • Fort Point Beer Co.
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