This is California. I guarantee with 100% certainty that this is going to fail. They will be late. They will be over-budget. Tax payers fund government officials earning in excess of $250k to go to meetings after meetings of regulatory compliance. In the end, they'll decide to dump more of tax payer money into it after delays of Phase I followed by threats based on sunken cost fallacy, and before you know, the technology has moved on and it is year 2035.