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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='color:#0070C0'>Below
are Bill Kier's comments to the LA Times journalist's (Bettina Boxall) article
on Wanger's ruling. <o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><b><span style='color:#0070C0'>Byron<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'><span style='color:#0070C0'><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>To: bettina.boxall@latimes.com<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-left:.5in'>From: Kier Associates <kierassociates@suddenlink.net><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'>Subject: Judge Wanger's 2/5 TRO based on NEPA, not ESA
issues<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b>Bettina<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b>I just read your 6 Feb Times piece headlined 'Judge
eases curbs on delta pumping' - and picked up on your line "He concluded
that the additional pumping would not seriously harm the young winter-run
salmon moving through the delta to the sea, .."<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b>I read Wanger's TRO, attached, differently<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b>'Tho' I'm a fisheries scientist, not an attorney, I
read Wanger's order as turning on a National Environmental Policy Act paperwork
glitch (see that sentence that starts at the line 4 on page 21 of the TRO), not
on the merits of the National Marine Fisheries Service's (NMFS) salmon science,
its Endangered Species Act Biological Opinion, nor the merits the 'Bi-Op's' Reasonable
and Prudent Action IV.2.3 - that which tried to restrain 'reverse flows' in the
southern Delta, they which suck the baby salmon to their deaths at the pumps. <o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b>That is, Wanger didn't make a judgement about how
much harm would be done to the ESA-listed Sacramento River winter-run salmon -
at all - he simply did a 'gotcha' because he thought Reclamation should have
had another handful or two of action options strewn among their NEPA compliance
paperwork<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b>That is, it's NMFS that identifies the problems for
protecting ESA-listed salmon associated with the federal Bureau of
Reclamation's Tracy pumps operations and it's NMFS, in consultation with
Reclamation, that crafts solutions to those problems - e.g., RPA IV.2.3 - and
it's Reclamation, then, that must do the necessary NEPA compliance paperwork
for their 'project', in this case, their pumping operations at their Tracy
pumps<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b>So here's an agency - Reclamation - that can get
their NEPA paperwork right every time for the soaring edifices they create in
concert with their water district customers, but can't get a fairly simple
piece of NEPA paperwork done right in concert with a fisheries agency from
another department of the gov't (NMFS is in the Dept of Commerce)<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b>Go <span style='color:black'>figure!</span><o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:
12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><b>Bill Kier<o:p></o:p></b></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Kier Associates, Fisheries and Watershed Professionals<br>
P.O. Box 915<br>
Blue Lake, CA 95525<br>
707.668.1822 <br>
mobile: 498.7847 <br>
<a href="http://www.kierassociates.net/">http://www.kierassociates.net<br>
</a>GSA Advantage Contractor GS-10F-0124U <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><o:p> </o:p></p>
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