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<font size="+1">We should all look carefully at the Klamath DEIS to
see if it confirms Glen's claim that KBRA provides "</font><big><font
id="role_document" color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><big><font
face="Tahoma"><b>up to 230,000</b> more acre-feet of water
back into the river for salmon recovery</font></big></font></big><font
size="+1"> " I think you'll find that it says:<br>
<br>
"Water Diversion Limitations would be implemented during dry years
to increase flows for fisheries by reducing Reclamation’s Klamath
Project diversion upstream of <b>approximately 100,000 acre-feet</b>."
e.g., page 3.8-20.<br>
<br>
Tom<br>
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On 9/20/2011 3:23 PM, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:FISH1IFR@aol.com">FISH1IFR@aol.com</a> wrote:
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<div><font face="Tahoma">Colleagues....</font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">While Felice's analysis in this
KlamBlog post is uniquely his own, is in my view seriously
flawed in several places, or based on his increasingly
obsolete information base (since he is now
voluntarily "boycotting" all the Klamath Basin
Coordinating Council (KBCC) public informational
meetings), plus he tends to characterize any meeting he is
not personally invited to as "secretive backroom
dealings," his characterization of the next few weeks as a
likely to be a "wild ride" is probably accurate. The
Draft EIS for Klamath Dam Removal, together with a very
careful and thorough cost analysis of dam removal itself,
will be coming out on the official web site sometime
tomorrow (<a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.klamathrestoration.gov">www.klamathrestoration.gov</a>)
together with ALL the many and detailed study reports on
which that DEIS is based. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">Interior Secretary Salazar gave an
important speech in SF on Sept. 19th in which he
summarized some of the findings on dam removal under the
Klamath Settlement Agreement coming out in the DEIS. The
relevant Klamath portion of that speech is attached
below. These are benefits from <u>both</u> the <u>two</u>
components of the Klamath Settlement Agreement -- the
hydropower only Klamath Hydropower Settlement Agreement
(KHSA), and the "related program" also analyzed under NEPA
of the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement (KBRA).
Without the KBRA many of those benefits -- such as a
guaranteed water supply for the National Wildlife Refuges
and up to 230,000 more acre-feet of water back into the
river for salmon recovery -- would not exist even with the
dams removed. Though it is a necessary pre-condition,
Klamath dam removal alone will not bring back the
Klamath's once mighty salmon runs nor put more water back
into the river. </font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma">It is for this reason that PCFFA
supports both Agreements.</font></div>
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<div>=============================================<br>
Glen H. Spain, NW Regional Director<br>
Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations (PCFFA)<br>
PO Box 11170, Eugene, OR 97440-3370<br>
O:(541)689-2000 -- Fax:(541)689-2500<br>
Email: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:fish1ifr@aol.com">fish1ifr@aol.com</a><br>
Home Page: <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.pcffa.org/">www.pcffa.org</a> </div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma"><strong>Klamath portion of interior
Secretary Salazar's Speech Today in SF on west water
issues, this section on the impacts of Klamath Dam
removal. The formal Draft EIS/EIR will be released this
Thursday (9/21st). </strong></font></div>
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<div><font face="Tahoma"><strong>Klamath River Basin<br>
<br>
</strong>First, in the Klamath River Basin, severe drought
and strain on the system exploded in 2001 with water
shortages for agriculture and other users. It was followed
in 2002 by the largest fish die off in the Basin’s
history, if not in U.S. history.<br>
<br>
After years of litigation, the parties reached an
agreement, signed in early 2010. Under that agreement, the
parties are to undertake a comprehensive environmental and
economic analysis of the impacts of removing four dams on
the Klamath River. <br>
<br>
The agreement, which the Obama Administration stands
behind fully, sets up an open, transparent process for
choosing the best path for the Klamath Basin. Science and
public engagement are at the heart of the process.<br>
<br>
That’s why, for the past several months, the Department
has been publicly releasing the individual science reports
as they become final. The Draft Environmental Impact
Statement, which compliments these scientific studies,
will be available for public review and comment beginning
Thursday.<br>
<br>
The analysis and studies will say a few things.<br>
<br>
First, they will show there are pluses and minuses to dam
removal on the Klamath River. The studies estimate that
dam removal would result in the loss of hydroelectric
power generation and the loss of around 50 jobs from
managing those facilities. It would also result in the
loss of some recreational opportunities on the Klamath
River reservoirs, and some decrease in property values for
landowners nearby.<br>
<br>
On the other hand, the watershed-wide restoration program
that is proposed could add more than 4,600 jobs to the
regional economy over 15 years, including around 1,400
during the year of dam removal. The studies say that the
reliability in water supplies that would be gained would
boost gross farm income and add between 70 and 695 jobs
annually to the agricultural economy.<br>
<br>
Moreover, Klamath restoration would help address tribal
trust issues for the Klamath River Basin Tribes and would
be beneficial to their water quality, fisheries, and
traditional cultural practices. <br>
<br>
The analysis also suggests there would be benefits to
commercial salmon fishermen. It seems like more often than
not in the last decade, there have been salmon fishery
closures in California or Oregon. <br>
<br>
With removal of the dams, though:<br>
<br>
· coho would reclaim 68 miles of historical habitat; <br>
<br>
· steelhead, the Klamath River’s most popular sport
fishery, would regain 420 miles of historical habitat; and
<br>
<br>
· commercially harvested Chinook salmon production would
increase by more than 80 percent .<br>
<br>
All together, eleven coastal counties in Oregon and
California would see gains of more than 400 jobs as a
result of improved fishing conditions.<br>
<br>
Those are significant numbers.<br>
<br>
But we will also be looking closely at the cost of the
restoration.<br>
<br>
The analysis that will be available Thursday will show
that the most probable cost of removing the four dams is
around $290 million in 2020 dollars, which is below the
$450 million state cost cap identified in the KHSA. <br>
<br>
To date, we have maintained a very public process. But we
need the continued input of the public and local
communities on the draft EIS.<br>
<br>
Their voices – and all of the economic, environmental, and
scientific information we have gathered - will be critical
as I approach my decision on dam removal in the Klamath
River Basin in March, 2012. </font></div>
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<div>In a message dated 9/20/2011 2:52:29 P.M. Pacific
Daylight Time, <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:tstokely@att.net">tstokely@att.net</a> writes:</div>
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class="post-body entry-content"><b>The Coming
Storm</b><br>
<br>
In Klamath Country the late summer lull is about
to end. As light wanes and nights become chill
the Klamath River – and its controversial <i>Dam
and Water Deals </i>- are about to be in the
national headlines again. Soon after the Fall
Equinox the environmental report needed to
“inform” a decision on the <i>Deals </i>by
Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar will come out
in draft form. That will kick off a round of
review, hearings, teach-ins, newspaper reports
and attempts by promoters, opponents and those
who favor key improvements to promote their
different views on the <i>Klamath Dam and Water
Deals.</i> <br>
<br>
For these extraordinary and perhaps
unprecedented* <i>Deals </i>to work, however,
and before the Secretary makes his decision,
Congress must pass a bill authorizing the
unusual <i>Deals</i>. According to at least one
of the tribe’s promoting them (the Klamath
Tribes), Congress will have to come up with the <a
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price tag</a> for the KBRA or <i>Water Deal</i>.
That price tag is nearly $1 billion dollars over
ten years. <br>
<br>
It is hard to imagine that legislation with a
billion dollar price tag could make it through a
divided and cash strapped Congress even if
powerful forces were not opposed. And powerful
forces are opposed including Northern California
congressman Tom McClintock (R), the Hoopa Tribe,
the basin’s Tea Party groups and (presumably)
other federal tribes across the nation whose
budgets would be raided to provide the tribal
share of the ten-year price tag. <br>
<br>
Strange things can happen in Congress, however,
when powerful interests stand to gain. In the
Klamath case the big winners in the<i>Deals</i> are
members of not one but three of the West’s most
powerful interests:<br>
-- A Power Utility and its major
investors<br>
-- Large private irrigation
interests receiving taxpayer subsidized water
from federal agencies<br>
-- Federal Land and Resource
Agencies<br>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"><i>Warren
Buffet: his investment company –
Berkshire-Hathaway – owns PacifiCorp and
five Klamath River Dams. </i></span><br>
<br>
When someone with the power and influence of a
Warren Buffet want legislation to go through the
US Congress, many obstacles can be overcome.
Buffet’s Berkshire Hathaway owns PacifiCorp
which owns the Klamath Dams. Compliance with
all laws would make the dams a money loser and
going the formal route to dam removal would cost
investors/shareholders. The Dam Deal is a much
cheaper alternative for PacifiCorp, Berkshire
Hathaway and Buffet. All that means the<i>Dam
Deal</i> – under which PacifiCorp’s customers
and taxpayers will foot the total bill for dam
removal – has a good chance of making it through
Congress one way or another. <br>
<br>
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style="FONT-SIZE: x-small">Klamath
Irrigators got what they wanted in the
Water Deal. If the deal is memorialized in
federal legislation these irrigators will
be first in line for Klamath Water ahead
of at risk salmon and other private
irrigators </span></i></div>
<br>
Whether the <i>Water Deal </i>remains part of
the final legislative package is another story.
Due to its cost and the controversy it has
generated, prospects for it to be enacted as
negotiated appear slim. The Bureau of
Reclamation and the <a moz-do-not-send="true"
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Elite</i></a> they serve will have a hard
time holding on to the
first-in-line-for-Klamath-water provisions they
negotiated; the damage to non-federal irrigators
is just too great. <br>
<br>
Even if some <i>Water Deal </i>provisions manage
to remain in final Klamath dam removal
legislation, however, there is a good chance
Congress will make changes to those provisions.
Those who want to fix the<i>Water Deal</i>, not
kill it, have a good chance for success if they
are organized, determined and can find champions
in Congress for those changes. For example, a
better guarantee of water for the Klamath
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flow study</a> recommended by the National
Research Council in order to properly set
in-river flows could become part of what emerges
from Congress. <br>
<br>
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and Tule Lake NWRs - and the 80% of
Pacific Flyway birds which rely upon them
- are dependent on the Bureau of
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<div style="TEXT-ALIGN: center"><span
style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"><i>The dewatered
Scott River near Fort Jones on October 2,
2009. A basin-wide flow assessment would
encompass major tributaries including the
Scott, Shasta and Trinity.</i></span></div>
<br>
KlamBlog previously pointed out that the federal
land and resource management agencies– the
Bureaus of Reclamation and Land Management and
the Forest , National Marine and National
Wildlife Services - collectively known these
days as the “Federal Family” - are the real
architects of the <i>Klamath Deals</i>. Key
federal bureaucrats recognized years ago that
the likelihood of dam removal (money loosing
dams can’t survive relicensing) presented an
opportunity to get back control of Klamath River
Basin water management from the courts acting on
behalf of salmon, fishermen and the federal
tribes. <br>
<br>
The bureaucrats decided then to try to hitch a <i>Water
Deal </i>which suited them to what would
likely be a popular dam removal deal. Without
changes, legislation implementing the <i>Water
Deal</i> will provide federal bureaucrats with
what they most desire – the authority to manage
water, land and resources professionally - that
is, undemocratically - and out of the public
eye. Whether Congress will go along with
undemocratic <i>Water Deal</i> governance
provisions, however, is not clear.<br>
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<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small"><i>Since the
opening of the American West, federal
bureaucrats have competed with locals for
control of land, water and resources</i></span><br>
<br>
Historically, these federal agencies – the
Bureaus of Reclamation and Land Management and
the Forest, National Marine and National
Wildlife Services - have competed with
westerners for control of water, land and
resource management. As KlamBlog has pointed out
before, The <i>Water Deal</i> provides for
renewed federal dominance in Klamath water
management. Under it decisions on how water is
managed would be made by federal and tribal
bureaucrats meeting behind closed doors. <br>
<br>
The alternative to federal back room management
is the <a moz-do-not-send="true" style="COLOR:
rgb(0,127,255)"
title="http://bigthink.com/ideas/24964"
href="http://bigthink.com/ideas/24964">democratic
basin-governance model </a>which was
originally championed by scientist and western
explorer John Wesley Powell. We see the
democratic model in operation today in
traditional irrigation districts and in those
river basins which have empowered and effective,
all-party river commissions. The closest thing
we have seen to that model proposed so far in
the Klamath River Basin is Siskiyou County’s
call for an open process to develop a basin-wide
restoration plan. <br>
<br>
<b>Behind the Scenes</b><br>
<br>
In advance of the coming legislative battle
those who are promoting the <i>Deals</i>, those
who oppose them, and those who want to fix what
they consider fatal flaws are all active. <br>
<br>
The <i>Two Rivers Tribune </i>recently <a
moz-do-not-send="true" style="COLOR:
rgb(0,127,255)"
title="http://www.tworiverstribune.com/2011/08/klamath-bill-circulating-in-secret/"
href="http://www.tworiverstribune.com/2011/08/klamath-bill-circulating-in-secret/">reported </a>that
draft legislation to implement the <i>Dam and
Water Deals </i>is “circulating in secret".
The Hoopa Tribe is upset that the feds have not
shared the draft bill with them and all other
federal tribes which will be affected by it.
Only those tribes and private parties which
signed the <i>Deals</i> have been invited to
review and comment on the draft; the Hoopa and
Quartz Valley Tribes and the Resighini Rancheria
have been denied the opportunity to review and
comment. <br>
<br>
Oregon Senator Jeff Merkley and California
Congressman Mike Thompson have reportedly agreed
to sponsor the legislation. Key environmental
constituents who have supported Mike Thompson in
the past, have asked him to fix what they
consider fatal flaws in the <i>Deals</i>in any
legislation he sponsors. There is no indication,
however, that Thompson is consulting with these
supporters. <br>
<br>
On the opposition side, Siskiyou County’s
supervisors are in the midst of a major effort
to get the federal agencies to “consult” with
them about Klamath River and all other land and
resource management issues. Four deluded
supervisors out of five apparently believe that<a
moz-do-not-send="true" style="COLOR:
rgb(0,127,255)"
title="http://users.sisqtel.net/armstrng/opinion091311.html"
href="http://users.sisqtel.net/armstrng/opinion091311.html">federal
managers must defer</a> to their local radical
right, anti-tribe sentiment. So far the county
supervisors get lip service from the<a
moz-do-not-send="true" style="COLOR:
rgb(0,127,255)"
title="http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/news/x1249731927/County-KNF-meet-to-discuss-travel-management-policies"
href="http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/news/x1249731927/County-KNF-meet-to-discuss-travel-management-policies">Forest
Service </a>which dutifully appears when
called but the National Marine Fisheries Service
recently <a moz-do-not-send="true" style="COLOR:
rgb(0,127,255)"
title="http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/lifestyle/agriculture/x351390313/National-Marine-Fisheries-Service-a-no-show"
href="http://www.siskiyoudaily.com/lifestyle/agriculture/x351390313/National-Marine-Fisheries-Service-a-no-show">refused
a similar demand</a> for them to appear.<br>
<br>
Siskiyou County’s radical right supervisors
appear convinced that Siskiyou voters will back
their efforts to get the feds to defer to them
on water, land and resource management. In the
midst of cuts to most county services, they
recently voted to pay lawyer <a
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rgb(0,127,255)"
title="http://justicemyass.com/id1.html"
href="http://justicemyass.com/id1.html">Fred
Kelly Grant</a> $250 per hour to act as their
“coordination counsel”.<br>
<br>
A criminal lawyer by profession, in recent years
Grant has worked for the property rights group <i>Stewards
of the Range</i> which has now become <a
moz-do-not-send="true" style="COLOR:
rgb(0,127,255)"
title="https://www.americanstewards.us/"
href="https://www.americanstewards.us/"><i>American
Stewards of Liberty</i></a>. His current
effort is promoted by an organization calling
itself <a moz-do-not-send="true" style="COLOR:
rgb(0,127,255)"
title="http://www.trademarkamerica.org/34.html"
href="http://www.trademarkamerica.org/34.html"><i>Trademark
America</i></a>. For an introduction to the
network of interconnected property rights
organizations see <a moz-do-not-send="true"
style="COLOR: rgb(0,127,255)"
title="http://www.pollutionissues.com/Pl-Re/Property-Rights-Movement.html"
href="http://www.pollutionissues.com/Pl-Re/Property-Rights-Movement.html">this
link</a>. <br>
<br>
While Grant forcefully presents <a
moz-do-not-send="true" style="COLOR:
rgb(0,127,255)"
title="http://www.citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com/grant_How_Coordination_Plans_Work.html"
href="http://www.citizensforaconstitutionalrepublic.com/grant_How_Coordination_Plans_Work.html">legal
arguments</a> for a federal coordination
requirement, he does not site nor has he
apparently been involved with a single court
case upholding a requirement that federal
officials defer to county land and resource
management plans and policies. Instead, Grant
and the American Stewards of Liberty of which he
is a part appear to be attempting to ride the
Tea Party wave into a new era of county-level
political resistance to state and federal
authority. <br>
<br>
Meanwhile those who see much good in the <i>Klamath
Deals</i> but also fatal flaws are organizing
to secure the changes they say are needed. For
these folks the devil is in critical details
which they would like to see all affected
citizens understand. The Redwood Chapter Sierra
Club, the Environmental Protection Information
Center, Northcoast Environmental Center and
Redwood Chapter of the Audubon Society are
sponsoring a teach-in on the Secretarial
Determination Process, the Draft EIS/EIR to
inform that decision and the issues which will
arise when Klamath legislation is introduced in
Congress. The teach-in will take place on
Wednesday October 19th at the Warfinger Building
in Eureka. Other educational efforts are also
being planned. <br>
<br>
<a moz-do-not-send="true" style="COLOR:
rgb(0,127,255)"
title="http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Short-Guide-to-Indigenous-Peoples-Rights.pdf"
href="http://www.globalforestcoalition.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/Short-Guide-to-Indigenous-Peoples-Rights.pdf"><i>Informed
Consent</i></a> is a process which
Indigenous Karuk-Yurok leader Chris Peters has
stressed is missing from <i>Dam and Water Deal</i>processes.
According to Peters - who is a member of the
Yurok Tribe - when Indigenous water and other
rights are involved, all tribal members should
be fully informed and a majority of members
should give their consent before the tribal
governing body signs on. Oregon’s Klamath Tribes
is the only tribal government to yet hold a
referendum on the Deals. That tribe’s members
voted to support the Deals which would provide
them with the means to regain a land and
resource base. <br>
<br>
<b>Into the light</b><br>
<br>
KlamBlog has pointed out many times how and why
secret and back room dealing has come to
dominate Klamath River water, land, resource and
restoration management and decision making. We
have not hidden the fact that we see that
dominance as morally, socially and
environmentally wrong. Undemocratic, backroom
management by any collection of entities is not
in the interest of the Klamath River or Klamath
Salmon. <br>
<br>
KlamBlog is a strong advocate for open,
democratic and science-driven water management
and restoration because it is the People’s right
to see how public water and public resources are
being managed. While back room dealing will no
doubt continue, once the Draft EIS/EIR is
released and Klamath Legislation is introduced
into Congress essential decisions will have to
be made in public.<br>
Finally, all those with an interest in the
Klamath River will have an opportunity to
understand what is at stake and the trade-offs
their leaders have accepted. All citizens who
have a stake will have the opportunity to weigh
in as is their right; the Klamath is – after all
is said and done – a public river. <br>
<br>
As public deliberations replace back room
shenanigans KlamBlog will be there
enthusiastically pushing for full disclosure,
continuing to publicize what others seek to keep
hidden and thereby seeking to empower citizens
to get involved and to make a difference.<br>
<br>
It is likely to be a wild ride.<br>
___________________________<br>
<span style="FONT-SIZE: x-small">* The
unprecedented nature of the Dam and Water
Deals may be the combination of a tribal water
rights settlement (Klamath Tribes) with a dam
removal deal. Tribal water rights settlements
have been going on in the West since the 80s;
for the most part, tribes have traded vast
unperfected water rights for money and other
considerations. History will not look kindly
on this second great swindle of America’s
Indigenous peoples. The<a
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rgb(0,127,255)"
title="http://digital.law.washington.edu/dspace-law/bitstream/handle/1773.1/1043/1WJELP042.pdf?sequence=4"
href="http://digital.law.washington.edu/dspace-law/bitstream/handle/1773.1/1043/1WJELP042.pdf?sequence=4"> proposed
termination of the federal trust
responsibility </a>with respect to the
rights of all six of the Basin’s federally
recognized tribes – whether or not they agree
to that termination – also appears to be
unprecedented. </span></div>
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