A push by two California Republican lawmakers to tap the state’s multi-billion-dollar surplus to invest in badly-needed water storage and conveyance projects is officially dead-on-arrival in Sacramento. Wednesday, lawmakers on the California Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee rejected Senate Bill 890, developed by Sens. Andreas Borgeas (R–Fresno) and Jim Nielsen (R–Red Bluff). If approved, the bill would allocate $2.6 billion toward Sites Reservoir, the state’s largest long-range dam project in decades.