Strategic Plan Review

EAA SCIENCE PROGRAM OVERVIEW

EAHCP Timeline Review

In May 2007, the Texas Legislature directed the EAA and certain other state and municipal water agencies to participate in the EARIP and to prepare a FWS-approved plan by 2012 for managing the aquifer to preserve the listed species at Comal and San Marcos Springs. An Incidental Take Permit (ITP) was granted by the USFWS and Phase 1 of the EAHCP began in 2013. In 2020, a review period of the strategic adaptive management process is scheduled so that Phase 2 of the EAHCP can take place from 2021 through 2028 ( slides 11 &12 ).

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