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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>More implications of <font color=black><span style='color:black'>CalFed
and other initiatives (OCAP, SDIP, <st1:City w:st="on"><st1:place w:st="on">Napa</st1:place></st1:City>,
and Contract Renewals) to ship water south. This DOES relate to the <st1:place
w:st="on">Trinity River</st1:place>.</span></font><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>DELTA</span></font></b></strong><font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>State risks lawsuits, infighting over Delta,
environmentalists warn</span></font></b></strong><font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>Associated Press - 10/14/04</span></font></b></strong><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><strong><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:
13.5pt;font-family:Tahoma'>By Don Thompson, staff writer</span></font></b></strong><font
size=4><span style='font-size:13.5pt'><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><st1:City w:st="on"><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'>SACRAMENTO</span></font></st1:City><font size=4><span
style='font-size:13.5pt'> - <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>
is at risk of returning to the days when lawsuits and constant infighting
stalled water policy and efforts to restore the fragile Sacramento-San Joaquin
Delta, 21 environmental groups warned Wednesday. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>Congress
just last week sent President Bush a bill authorizing the California Federal
Bay-Delta Program, better known as CalFed, after a decade of dispute. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>But the
environmental groups are upset state and federal water agencies are proceeding
unilaterally with approving dozens of water contracts that would send more
water flowing from Northern California through the Delta to <st1:City w:st="on">Los
Angeles</st1:City> and <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">San Diego</st1:City></st1:place>.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The
agreement was hammered out in a series of closed-door sessions in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Napa</st1:City></st1:place> in July 2003, while
the environmental groups said it should have been negotiated in public through
CalFed. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>"The
back room deals have turned the CalFed process into a sham," said Barry
Nelson of the National Resources Defense Council. "The program's falling
apart." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>His was
one of the 21 groups appealing to the authority at its meeting Wednesday to
pressure the federal Bureau of Reclamation and state Department of Water
Resources to start over and work through CalFed. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The
alternative is a return to the pre-CalFed years marked by protracted battles
between farmers, fishermen, environmentalists and residential users over scarce
water, the critics said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>"This
is the reason CalFed was created, was to prevent this kind of dumb mistake from
happening," Nelson said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>The
environmental groups, which include commercial and sport fishermen, contend the
agreements would harm <st1:place w:st="on">Northern California</st1:place>
rivers and wildlife, along with water quality and quantity in the Delta. Water
regulators say that's not the case. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>"We
understand their concerns, many of which apply to decisions that have yet to be
made," responded CalFed spokesman Keith Coolidge. The public - and the
interest groups - will have plenty of opportunity to weigh in, he said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:13.5pt'>"It
would be unfortunate if we could not reach a collaborative agreement and would
revert to lawsuits," Coolidge said. "We're trying not to get
there." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><em><i><font size=3 color=gray
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<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
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River</st1:place></span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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