This grant will fund activities which will assist the recipient to meet its obligation to reduce and eliminate drainage discharges from the grasslands drainage area (GDA)

These activities will result in measurable reductions in the volume and concentration of drainage discharged to the grasslands wetlands and lower SAN joaquin river. The measure of success will be the achievement by the recipient of the objectives specified in the 2009 use agreement that implements the grassland bypass project. The 2009 use agreement specifies monthly and annual loads of selenium and salts that can be discharged from the GDA to the SAN joaquin river through the SAN luis drain. These loads are based on the assimilative capacity of the river, and diminish to meet future water quality objectives in the river. The goal of reclamation and the recipient is to control and eliminate discharges of agricultural drain water from the GDA by the end of 2015. The ongoing federal investment in the SAN joaquin river improvement project (sjrip) has helped provide a sustainable system to control agricultural drainage by the recipient and increase agricultural crops for use by public. To date, the federal investment has enabled the sjrip to displace more than 29,000 pounds of selenium and 576,000 tons of salts, contaminants that otherwise have flowed to the SAN joaquin river. The recipient will use the 2013 grant for these activities: project administration, construction of infrastructure to manage drainage water within the sjrip, land development, and environmental mitigation.