Sonoma and Mendocino Counties have voted to approve a joint exercise of powers agreement to form the Eel-Russian River Project Authority. According to a press release, the new entity will negotiate with PG&E as it moves ahead with plans to surrender operations of the Potter Valley Project and decommission the Scott and Cape Horn Dams on the Eel River, and will also have the legal authority to own, construct and operate a new water diversion facility near the Cape Horn Dam. The Eel-Russian River Project Authority will have a five member board with two representatives from the Mendocino County Inland Water and Power Commission, Sonoma Water, the County of Sonoma and the Round Valley Indian Tribes.