Background
On November 29, 2001, in D.01-11-048, the Commission approved Valencia's Water Management Program (WMP), accepted Advice Letters 88 and 90 for filing, and authorized Valencia to extend service to four developments that were addressed by those advice letters. Further Commission decisions denied applications for rehearing and then a petition for modification filed by the Angeles Chapter of Sierra Club1 (Sierra Club).
On October 16, 2003, in a decision addressing Sierra Club's application for rehearing of the decision denying its petition for modification of D.01-11-048, the Commission noted that a Court of Appeal decision recently had determined that the EIR for the West Creek project (West Creek EIR), one of the EIRs that the Commission had relied on in D.01-11-048, was insufficient for California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) purposes. While finding no legal error in its decisions and denying Sierra Club's application for rehearing, the Commission acted on its own motion to stay D.01-11-048 insofar as it approved the West Creek EIR. The Commission directed that the stay of D.01-11-048 would remain in effect pending recertification of the West Creek EIR by the lead agency, the County, and resubmission of the West Creek EIR to the Commission. (D.03-10-063, mimeo., p. 7, Conclusion of Law 2.)
1 It includes Santa Clarita Organization for Planning the Environment (SCOPE).
