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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='color:black'>Apologies again for any
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:#0000CC'>Congressman
George Miller</span></b><span style='font-size:18.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif"'><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right'><b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>For
Immediate Release: June 4, 2009<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Arial","sans-serif";color:black'>Press
Office: 202-225-2095<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><span
style='font-size:16.0pt'>Federal Scientists Announce New Requirements that will
Improve Long-term Survival of Salmon Populations<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center'><b><i><span
style='font-size:16.0pt'>Miller instrumental in securing key review of earlier
politically-tainted policy<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Washington, DC – Congressman George Miller
(D-Martinez), Mike Thompson (D- Napa Valley) and Doris Matsui (D-Sacramento)
released the following statements in response to today’s federal decision
that the operation of the Federal Central Valley Project and the California
State Water Project will need to be changed in order to protect and restore
California’s winter and spring-run Chinook salmon, steelhead, green
sturgeon and killer whales:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>“With today's announcement, the Obama administration
has set a science-based course toward recovering the populations of wild salmon
and steelhead that are so critical to California's economy and
environment,” said Rep. George Miller (D-Martinez), an expert in Congress
on California water policy. “After years of costly litigation and
negligence and political tampering by the Bush Administration, this is an
important step towards the recovery of California’s fisheries and the
environmental health of the Bay-Delta. It is refreshing to see water management
decisions that are based on science, not on the whims of tainted political
appointees like Julie MacDonald.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>“This is an important step for restoring
California’s fisheries,” said Congressman Mike Thompson (D- Napa
Valley). “Salmon and steelhead are a vital part of our ecosystem
and contribute to our state’s economy up and down the coast.
Today’s report is a breath of fresh air for Californians who have grown
used to water policies based on politics rather than on science. Moving
forward, we need to use this as a first step towards building a water policy in
California that is based on science and includes all stakeholders at the
table.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNoSpacing>“I am glad to see that the Administration is taking
critical action based on sound science,” said Representative Doris Matsui
(D-Sacramento). “Today’s opinion will go a long way towards
preservation of not only a number of threatened species, but also will play a
role in the protection of the entire watershed on which so many Californians
rely. It is key that as the federal government moves forward to protect
and restore California’s fisheries, water supply and the future of the
Delta, that decisions are based on sound science.”<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal>Today’s announcement replaces a controversial 2004
biological opinion stating that the state and federal agencies’ plans to
pump water to the Central Valley would not harm wild fisheries. After the
release of that opinion, Reps. George Miller, Mike Thompson, Ellen Tauscher and
other members of Congress asked the Commerce Department’s Inspector
General to investigate. That audit found that the Bush Administration violated
standard procedures and compromised the integrity of the biological opinion.
Reports from the Interior Department’s Inspector General found that over
the same time period, several endangered species decisions were
“inappropriately influenced” by Julie MacDonald, the Bush
administration’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Fish and Wildlife and
Parks.<o:p></o:p></p>
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