<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#111111" face="Arial" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></span></font></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">Water Agencies, Enviros and Tribes Unite to Delay Water Bills </span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">by Dan Bacher </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">One of the largest and most diverse coalitions of water agencies, environmentalists, Indian Tribes, fishermen and environmental justice groups in California history has assembled to oppose Senate President pro Tem Darrell Steinberg's mad rush to enact a dangerous package of water bills before the end of the legislative session, September 11. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">The 42 groups from both northern and southern California sent a letter to the Water Conference Committee and other members of the Legislature on September 2 stating that "the few days left in this session are simply insufficient to ensure that passage of the package of bills will not result in unintended consequences that could prove even more harmful than the current situation presents." </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">"The Delta package of bills that is now being considered proposes fundamental changes in California water policy that will require careful and broad consultation to ensure undisrupted implementation," the letter says. "More importantly, to be successful, the policy will require confidence and buy in from a broad constituency. Rushing this process risks producing unintended consequences that will not benefit California in the long term." </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Bill Jennings, executive director of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, one of the groups signing the letter, described the water deal as "a combination of the Sorcerer's Apprentice and Faust's bargain with the Devil." </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">"Not satisfied with simply giving the Governor the power to appoint the majority of a Council that has the power to approve a peripheral canal, bonds and new dams are now part of the equation," noted Jennings. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">The letter was preceded by numerous letters by organizations opposing the peripheral canal, including a strongly written letter sent by the Center for Biological Diversity and many fishing groups: <a href="http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/san_francisco_bay_area_and_delta_protection/pdfs/Delta_Bill_Package_opposition_letter.pdf"><font color="#0c2e5a" style="color: #0c2e5a"><u>http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/san_francisco_bay_area_and_delta_protection/pdfs/Delta_Bill_Package_opposition_letter.pdf</u></font></a> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Labor has also joined the battle against the canal and water bond. The United Farmworkers Union, founded by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, reported that a $1-million donation was made to a political action committee called “United Farm Workers’ Committee to Oppose Statewide Water Bonds," according to the LA Times on September 1. The donation came from the Change to Win Coalition, a national labor coalition including SEIU and the Teamsters Union. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">The opposition of groups from throughout the state is accompanied on the local level by a grassroots uprising of Steinberg's constituents and Delta residents. A group of 40 people held a demonstration outside of Steinberg's office on Friday, September 4 in opposition to Steinberg's push for the peripheral canal (<a href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/05/18620933.php"><font color="#0c2e5a" style="color: #0c2e5a"><u>http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2009/09/05/18620933.php</u></font></a>). </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">"We are alarmed at how the current package of five water bills is being pushed through the Legislature without consideration for the many concerns of Delta and northern California residents," said Barbara Daly, Delta farmland owner, of Save the Delta. "We are protesting the legislation's ceding of control of our water to only 7 political appointees on a governance committee that could approve the building of a peripheral canal." </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Meanwhile, deals are apparently being made behind closed doors regarding the peripheral canal and the future of the West Coast's largest estuary. "I'm informed that the fate of the Delta estuary is being horse-traded in backroom meetings between Lester Snow (DWR), Senator Steinberg (D-Sacrament) Assemblymember Jared Huffman (D-San Rafael), Senator Dave Cogdill (R-Modesto), Barry Nelson (NRDC), Tom Birmingham (Westlands Water District), Tim Brick (Metropolitan Water District) and Joe Caves (Nature Conservancy)," said Jennings. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Saturday and Sunday's legislative meetings over the water bills were canceled and the next meeting will take place at 1:00 PM today (Monday) in room 4203 of the Capitol. Today's meeting will focus on AB 49 (Feuer/Huffman) regarding outstanding issues on water conservation, SB 261 (Dutton/Ducheny), and SB 229 (Pavley) regarding water diversion reporting. The public will be able to comment on the legislation. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">What can you do to stop the peripheral canal and delay the water bill package? </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">First, make phone calls and emails to Senator Darrell Steinberg through the Friends of the River Acton Alert to urge him not rush into the kind of potential policy disaster that created California’s unsuccessful and costly experiment in energy deregulation! The link is: <a href="https://secure2.convio.net/fotr/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=225"><font color="#0c2e5a" style="color: #0c2e5a"><u>https://secure2.convio.net/fotr/site/Advocacy?cmd=display&page=UserAction&id=225</u></font></a> </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">After you make your phone call and emails, please sign the petition against the peripheral canal on the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) Website at <a href="http://www.calsport.org/"><font color="#0c2e5a" style="color: #0c2e5a"><u>http://www.calsport.org</u></font></a>. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Here is the letter, starting with the list of organizations and tribes signing on to the letter. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Anahuak Youth Sports </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Butte Environmental Council </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Calaveras Public Utility District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">California Indian Heritage Council </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">California Sportfishing Protection Alliance </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Central Delta Water Agency </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Citrus Heights Water District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">City of Folsom </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">City of Roseville </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Clean Water Action </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">East Bay Municipal Utility District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">El Dorado Irrigation District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Environmental Justice Coalition for Water </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Food and Water Watch </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Foothill Conservancy </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Friends of the Los Angeles River </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Friends of the River </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Heal the Bay </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Jackson Valley Irrigation District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Mono Lake Committee </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Northern California Water Association </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Orangevale Water Company </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Organic Sacramento </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Planning and Conservation League </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Restore the Delta </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Sacramento Suburban Water District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">San Diego Coastkeeper </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">San Francisco Public Utilities Commission </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">San Joaquin County </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">San Juan Water District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Sierra Club California </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Sierra Nevada Alliance </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">South Delta Water Agency </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Southern California Watershed Alliance </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Stockton East Water District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">The River Project </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Tuolumne Utilities District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Urban Semillas </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Winnemem Wintu Tribe </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">September 2, 2009 </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Honorable Darrell Steinberg Honorable Karen Bass </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Honorable Dean Florez Honorable Anna Caballero </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Honorable Alex Padilla Honorable Jean Fuller </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Honorable Fran Pavley Honorable Jared Huffman </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Honorable Dave Cogdill Honorable Kevin Jeffries </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Honorable Sam Aanestad Honorable Jim Nielsen </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Honorable Bob Huff Honorable Jose Solorio </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Dear Water Conference Committee Members: </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">We the undersigned are pleased to see the Legislature committing its time and staff to addressing </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">the declining situation in California statewide water management. As the hub of California’s </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">engineered water system, the Delta is a critical resource to everyone in the state. As the largest </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">estuary on the west coast of the Americas, the Delta is also one of the most endangered </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">ecosystems in the United States. We stand committed to working with the Legislature and its </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">appointed conference committee through the remainder of this legislative session and beyond to </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">arrive at a solution that improves the health of the Delta. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">The few days left in this session are simply insufficient to ensure that passage of the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">package of bills will not result in unintended consequences that could prove even more </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">harmful than the current situation presents. These Delta bills have not yet been amended </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">with only nine days left. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Please do not mistake our views as being opposed to change. We understand that systemic </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">changes will be needed to fix the Delta. However, we feel that in order to move past the </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">stalemate surrounding the Delta, the Legislature and conference committee must find solutions to </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">the most controversial issues. Unless those are discussed and resolved, the legislation will result </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">in an ineffective package that will result only in a lifetime of litigation and no new water, jobs or </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">protections for the environment. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">The Delta package of bills that is now being considered proposes fundamental changes in </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">California water policy that will require careful and broad consultation to ensure undisrupted </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">implementation. More importantly, to be successful, the policy will require confidence and buyin </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">from a broad constituency. Rushing this process risks producing unintended consequences </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">that will not benefit California in the long term. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">At this juncture, water is one of the highest priority policy issues for California. It is important </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">that any deal for the Delta promotes real and reliable improvements in the health of the Delta </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">itself and promotes responsible statewide management of our water resources. </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Sincerely, </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Raul Macias, Executive Director </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Anahuak Youth Sports Association </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Lynn Barris </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Butte Environmental Council </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">John Ornellas, District Manager </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Calaveras Public Utility District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Evon Chambers signing on behalf of: </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Randy Yonemura, Project Director </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">California Indian Heritage Council </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Bill Jennings, Executive Director </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">California Sportfishing Protection Alliance </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Dante Nomellini, Manager and Counsel </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Central Delta Water Agency </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Robert Churchill, General Manager </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Citrus Heights Water District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Kenneth Payne, Utilities Director </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">City of Folsom </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Derrick Whitehead, Utilities Director </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">City of Roseville </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Jennifer Clary, Water Policy Analyst </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Clean Water Action </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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Diemer, General Manager </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">East Bay Municipal Utility District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Thomas D. Cumpston, Acting General </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Manager </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">El Dorado Irrigation District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Debbie Davis, Legislative Analyst </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Environmental Justice Coalition for Water </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Mark Schlosberg, California Director </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Food and Water Watch </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Chris Wright, Executive Director </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Foothill Conservancy </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Shelly Backlar, Executive Director </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Friends of the Los Angeles River </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Steve Evans, Conservation Director </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Friends of the River </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Thaddeus Bettner, Glenn-Colusa Irrigation </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">District </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Mark Gold, Executive Director </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Heal the Bay </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 13px/normal Arial; color: rgb(17, 17, 17); min-height: 15px; "><br></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Arial" size="4" color="#111111" style="font: 13.0px Arial; color: #111111">Thomas Hoover, General Manager </font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; 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