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<h2 style='margin:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt'><b><i><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;font-style:normal'>Water worries
never run dry; A battle rages once more over who gets what from Central Valley Project<o:p></o:p></span></font></i></b></h2>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>The <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:City></st1:place>
Bee – 3/14/05<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:14.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>By Dale Kasler, staff writer<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Even torrential storms can't end <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>'s water wars.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>While Southern California digs out from
mudslides and much of the <st1:place w:st="on">Sierra Nevada</st1:place> lies beneath
a heavy snowpack, an age-old dispute rages anew: how to divvy up the spoils of
the Central Valley Project. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which
operates the CVP's massive network of dams, reservoirs and canals, has begun
renewing long-term contracts that ensure farmers will continue to control 70
percent of the project's water for decades to come. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><img width=2 height=2 id="_x0000_i1025"
src="cid:image001.gif@01C5288C.FB72BBA0">The bureau says farmers are getting
what they deserve and not one drop more. But environmentalists and a prominent
congressional critic are blasting the renewals, which extend water allocations
for 25 years and in some cases 40 years. They say the government is ignoring
the crying need for water in <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>'s
cities by allowing farmers roughly the same allotments they've gotten for
years. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>What's more, say critics, the new
contracts perpetuate sweetheart pricing. Although rates have risen, farmers
will still pay less than cities for CVP water - sometimes only half as much.
Decades-old water rights mean some farmers will continue getting water for
free. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Critics say the pricing lets agriculture
make a killing: While rivers go dry, farmers make money selling water they
don't need to cities. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Growers will "collect substantial personal
profits" by reselling water, U.S. Rep. George Miller says in a recent
letter to Interior Secretary Gale Norton. Miller, D-Martinez, who authored a
landmark 1992 law that reallocated a portion of CVP water to environmental
uses, says the renewals could be challenged in court. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The criticism comes just as another
farm-to-city water sale is in the offing. The Metropolitan Water District of
Southern California has just signed options to buy water from three
rice-growing irrigation districts in the <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName
w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>,
its second such purchase in three years. If MWD exercises the options, some
127,000 acre-feet of water would move south - enough to irrigate tens of
thousands of acres of rice. The farmers could earn nearly $17 million combined.
<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Farmers and the government defend the new
CVP contracts. They say growers are entitled to the allotments because they've
shown they use all the water in most years. The prices are in line with federal
law, and while farmers do make money selling water, the deals are occasional
and limited in scope, they say. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>"If anyone thinks we're getting a
really good deal, they just need the facts," said Mary Wells, a <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Colusa</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">County</st1:PlaceType></st1:place>
rice farmer and president of the Northern California Water Association. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>She said the price for CVP water on her
farm is nearly tripling, to $28 an acre-foot. An acre-foot is 326,000 gallons. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>"That may be cheap for <st1:Street
w:st="on"><st1:address w:st="on">Wilshire Boulevard</st1:address></st1:Street>,
(but) that is not cheap for agriculture," Wells said. "Our margin is
very small in agriculture." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The dispute underscores that the quest for
water can be relentless in a state that's largely irrigated desert. As experts
cast nervous glances at this year's anticipated water supply, few foresee a
crisis - but no one's feeling giddy, either. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The Feather River watershed, which feeds <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Lake</st1:PlaceType> <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Oroville</st1:PlaceName></st1:place>
and is a key source for much of the state, is drier than normal. The Colorado
River, crucial to <st1:place w:st="on">Southern California</st1:place>, has
benefited from rain but is still in a drought. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>"When you look at the extended drought
we've been in, it's not like life is good," said MWD chief operating
officer Debra Man. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The purchase options MWD signed with the
Sacramento Valley ag districts amount to "prudent water supply
insurance," she said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The CVP, built over four decades at a cost
of $3.2 billion, delivers about 7 million acre-feet of water annually. More
than 70 percent goes to agriculture, with the rest split between cities and
environmental purposes. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>With 200 water contracts being renewed,
just three farm districts north of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:City></st1:place>
will have allotments cut. A district near <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Redding</st1:City></st1:place>,
for example, is getting less water because it's irrigating fewer acres due to
creeping urbanization. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Otherwise, the renewals keep intact
historic allocations. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The Natural Resources Defense Council says
"the contract renewals will perpetuate an outdated status quo" that
doesn't recognize the declining relative importance of agriculture in <st1:place
w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>While the value of ag production has
nearly tripled in the past generation, farming's share of the gross state
product declined from about 2.2 percent in 1977 to 1.2 percent in 2002, said
economist Daniel Sumner of the <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">University</st1:PlaceType>
of <st1:PlaceName w:st="on">California</st1:PlaceName>, <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Davis</st1:City></st1:place>. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Meanwhile, farming's share of the job
market has fallen to 2 percent from 3 percent in 1983, according to the state
Employment Development Department. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>The NRDC says the most vivid example of
the change is the Westlands Water District near <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City
w:st="on">Fresno</st1:City></st1:place>. The district is downsizing, taking
more than 15 percent of its land out of production because of water-drainage
issues. Yet the Bureau of Reclamation is proposing to deliver its usual
allocation of more than 1.1 million acre-feet - 18 percent of the entire CVP. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Bureau spokesman Jeff McCracken said
Westlands deserves it, even with reduced acreage, because Westlands wasn't
getting the water it needed to fully irrigate its farms to begin with. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Price is another issue. While taxpayers
paid for most of the project, CVP customers were supposed to pay back more than
$1.1 billion. But, 25 years after the last dam was completed, less than $200
million has been repaid. Ordered by Congress to accelerate repayment, the
bureau is raising prices for everyone. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>But farmers will still pay less than
cities. Unlike cities, farmers don't pay interest on the construction bill.
That's federal law. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>"Farmers are paying for it at the
price we're allowed to charge for it," McCracken said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Almost one-third of the CVP's water is
doled out to <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> farmers for
nothing. This is "settlement" water, delivered to farmers who simply
helped themselves to the <st1:place w:st="on">Sacramento River</st1:place>
before the CVP was built. The settlement water compensates them for water now
trapped behind Shasta Dam. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>"That's not our water to charge
for," McCracken said. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Environmentalists say the pricing
structure allows farmers to become profiteers. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>"The farmers turn around and sell it
and keep all the profit," said NRDC lawyer Hal Candee. "Meanwhile,
the endangered salmon species continue to suffer." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Certainly the state of farming makes a
water sale tempting. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Farmers will barely break even on a
typical acre of rice this year, says the California Rice Commission. Under the
options agreement with MWD, three <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:PlaceName w:st="on">Sacramento</st1:PlaceName>
<st1:PlaceType w:st="on">Valley</st1:PlaceType></st1:place> districts would
get paid $125 an acre-foot for letting some water flow south. The deals would
earn growers about $300 per acre taken out of production. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Farmers bristle at the suggestion of huge
water profits. State law discourages them from selling more than 20 percent of
their water. So a sale can help keep them afloat but won't make them wealthy,
growers say. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>"It's not anything I can retire
on," said Colusa rice and prune farmer Don Bransford, president of the
Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District. "I don't understand where they're coming
from in terms of this big windfall." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Glenn-Colusa is one of three districts
that signed options with MWD. Farmers like Bransford are weighing whether to
make a sale or simply plant their entire crop. Though the ground is muddy and
planting is several weeks off, decision time is coming. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>Bransford, who sold some of his water four
years ago to farmers near <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on">Fresno</st1:City></st1:place>,
still wrestles with the idea of selling something that farmers consider their
birthright. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>"Farmers are in the farming business;
they're not in the water transfer business," said Bransford, who's been
farming since 1980. "A farmer is always going to farm if he thinks he can
make a profit." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
14.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=4 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;font-weight:bold'>CENTRAL VALLEY PROJECT<o:p></o:p></span></font></b></p>
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style='font-size:14.0pt;color:#003366'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>* History: Construction began in 1937;
first water delivery in 1940. Shasta Dam, the main cog, completed in 1945. Last
dam, New Melones, finished in 1979. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>* Infrastructure: Includes 20 dams and
reservoirs, 500 miles of major canals and 11 power plants. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>* Water delivery: CVP provides about 7
million acre-feet of water each year, or roughly 17 percent of all the water
used in the state. (An acre-foot is 326,000 gallons - a year's water supply for
one to two <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>
households.) <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=4 color=black face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:14.0pt;color:black'>* Allocations: Agriculture gets 5 million
acre-feet, enough to serve about one-third of <st1:place w:st="on"><st1:State
w:st="on">California</st1:State></st1:place>'s farmland. More than 1 million
acre-feet go to the environment. About 600,000 acre-feet are delivered for
municipal and industrial uses.</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><st1:PersonName w:st="on"><em><i><font size=3 color=gray
face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Byron
Leydecker</span></font></i></em></st1:PersonName><em><i><font color=gray
face="Times New Roman"><span style='color:gray'>, </span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Chair, Friends of <st1:place w:st="on">Trinity
River</st1:place></span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>Consultant, California Trout, Inc.</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:address w:st="on"><st1:Street w:st="on"><em><i><font
size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:gray'>PO Box</span></font></i></em></st1:Street><em><i><font
color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span style='color:gray'> 2327</span></font></i></em></st1:address><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><st1:place w:st="on"><st1:City w:st="on"><em><i><font
size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt;
color:gray'>Mill Valley</span></font></i></em></st1:City><em><i><font
color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span style='color:gray'>, <st1:State w:st="on">CA</st1:State>
<st1:PostalCode w:st="on">94942-2327</st1:PostalCode></span></font></i></em></st1:place><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>415 383 4810 ph</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 color=gray face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:gray'>415 383 9562 fx</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><u><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><a href="mailto:bwl3@comcast.net">bwl3@comcast.net</a></span></font></u></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><a
href="mailto:bleydecker@stanfordalumni.org">bleydecker@stanfordalumni.org</a><u>
</u></span></font><font color=black><span style='color:black'>(secondary)</span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt'><a href="http://www.fotr.org">http://www.fotr.org</a></span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><em><i><font size=3 color=blue face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:blue'><a href="http://caltrout.org">http://caltrout.org</a></span></font></i></em><o:p></o:p></p>
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