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<DIV><SPAN class=546413016-23022004><FONT face=Arial size=2>The following is
from Byron Leydecker:</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV><SPAN class=546413016-23022004>The Ninth </SPAN>Circuit <SPAN
class=546413016-23022004>Court </SPAN>heard <SPAN
class=546413016-23022004>oral </SPAN>arguments <SPAN
class=546413016-23022004>in the Westlands and Northern California Power Agency
v. Interior litigation on the Trinity Record of Decision February
9.</SPAN></DIV>
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<DIV>The recording of the hearing is posted on the <SPAN
class=546413016-23022004>Ninth Circuit </SPAN>website<SPAN
class=546413016-23022004> at the following link</SPAN><SPAN
class=546413016-23022004>: <A
href="http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/media.nsf/Media+Search?OpenForm"><FONT
color=#0000ff>http://www.ca9.uscourts.gov/ca9/media.nsf/Media+Search?OpenForm</FONT></A></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=546413016-23022004></SPAN>The case number is
03-15194</DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>