Roger Masuda has been Special Water Counsel to Butte County since March 1991. He has advised the County on its State Water Contract, litigation relating to its State Water Contract (including an area of origin lawsuit against the California Department of Water Resources), wholesale water contracts, water transfers by Butte County of its State Water Contract Table A water, the County's groundwater ordinances, and the California Department of Water Resources' relicensing of FERC Project No. 2100, the Oroville Facilities. David Hobbs is currently representing the County on litigation involving the State Water Project.