[env-trinity] SACBEE- CVP OCAP Meeting Rescheduled

[Tom Stokely]

I can send anybody a copy of Machado's letter if you send a private e-mail request to me.
Tom Stokely tstokely at trinityalps.net
http://www.sacbee.com/content/news/california/story/11004191p-11921378c.html
Officials reschedule meeting on reservoirs
By Stuart Leavenworth
Published 2:15 am PDT Thursday, October 7, 2004

SACRAMENTO - Facing an uproar from fisheries advocates, state and federal water agencies have changed the time and location of a meeting today on plans for modifying operations of reservoirs across the state. 
Sport fishing groups and environmentalists are angry about plans to ship more water to Southern California, leaving less in reservoirs for salmon and other fish. 

 The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the state Department of Water Resources have been evaluating these changes in a document called the Operations Criteria and Plan (OCAP). 

The bureau and DWR scheduled a public meeting on the plan for this morning at a Howe Avenue hotel. After hearing that hundreds of people might show up, the agencies rescheduled it for 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. today at the California Bay Delta Authority, 650 Capitol Mall, fifth floor, in Sacramento. 

The Bee reported Saturday that regional administrators for NOAA Fisheries, an arm of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, ordered staff biologists to revise initial findings that OCAP could jeopardize endangered salmon and other fish. 

State Sen. Mike Machado, D-Linden, sent a letter Wednesday, asking top officials at the NOAA to investigate. 

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