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The Tribe's comments are attached. Because of this list's interest
in hydrology I draw your attention this is portion:<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-indent:36.0pt">Throughout
the DEIS, the effect of the KBRA Water Diversion “Limitation” is
inaccurately
described.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>For example,
page ES-19
states that a key outcome of the KBRA is that the Klamath
Reclamation Project’s
water users have agreed to “accept reduced water deliveries.”<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>At page 3.7-19, the DEIS
states that “the
Water Diversions Limitations program (KBRA Section 15.1) would
reduce the
availability of surface water for irrigation on Reclamation’s
Klamath Project
to 100,000 acre-feet less than the demand in the driest years to
protect
mainstem flows.”<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Similarly,
page 3.8-20
states “Water Diversion Limitations would be implemented during
dry years to
increase flows for fisheries by reducing Reclamation’s Klamath
Project
Diversion up stream of approximately 100,000 acre-feet.”<a
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<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Both of these statements
are completely
false.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Not only is
100,000 acre-feet <u>not
reduced</u> from current demand, the DEIS’s Proposed Action’s
modeled water
volume falls well below <st1:stockticker>ESA</st1:stockticker>
requirements
established in the 2010 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS)
Biological
Opinion (Figure 3) for dry water year types, requirements that
limit diversions.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>A
comparison of required versus available
water volume totals for the January through December time period
reveals water
volumes established in the 2010 NMFS Biological Opinion would
not be met in
four out of six water year types (66%).<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>None of the sections referring to the mythical 100,000
acre‑feet or any
other part of the DEIS, reveals that the existing legal
limitations in the
applicable Biological Opinions independently prevent the Project
from
satisfying irrigation demand in dry years.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>The analysis of the KBRA flows in the DEIS appears to
rely on irrigator
water usage from years <i style="mso-bidi-font-style:normal">prior
to</i> BiOp
implementation.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The
large irrigation
diversions noted in the DEIS occurred prior to the BiOp and are
illegal now
under the <st1:stockticker>ESA</st1:stockticker>.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The KBRA would change that
by guaranteeing a
minimum diversion for irrigators to the detriment, not the
benefit, of fish.</p>
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12.0pt;margin-left:36.0pt">Figure 3.<span
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</span>DEIS Proposed Action water volume<a
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shortages
when compared to volumes required to satisfy the 2010 NMFS
Biological Opinion<a style="mso-footnote-id:ftn3" href="#_ftn3"
name="_ftnref3" title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span
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for January through December volumes.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Volumes are calculated from Iron Gate Dam releases.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-indent:36.0pt">The
purported “limitation” on diversions in the KBRA is nothing of
the kind and
will actually work to negate benefits of dam removal.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The purpose of the KBRA is
not to limit
diversions, but to guarantee a firm minimum amount of water for
irrigation
diversions that exceeds currently legal levels.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes">
</span>Those diversions, which under the KBRA would be 330,000
to 385,000
acre-feet per year, would trump the in-stream flow needs of fish
and other
aquatic organisms, especially in drier water years (Figure 4).<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>DEIS hydrology model
results indicate that
the Proposed Action will result in a buffering of Agricultural
Supply water
volumes in dry years above what would otherwise be available.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Meanwhile, the river
suffers a penalty of a
volume reduction that violates the 2010 NMFS Biological Opinion
(Figure
3).<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>While the DEIS
states <st1:stockticker>ESA</st1:stockticker>
compliance will continue, it fails to describe <i
style="mso-bidi-font-style:
normal">how </i>this will be achieved given the clear
shortage of water volume
under the KBRA.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The <st1:country-region><st1:place>United
States</st1:place></st1:country-region> would be legally
obligated to defend
the irrigators’ diversion rights against the interests of fish
and Indian
tribes in the <st1:place><st1:placename>Klamath</st1:placename>
<st1:placetype>Basin</st1:placetype></st1:place>.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The KBRA thus subordinates
senior tribal
rights to water for fish in favor of junior irrigation
interests.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>In the case
of the Hoopa Valley Tribe, this
subordination occurs without the Tribe’s consent – effectively
terminating
Interior’s trust obligation to the Tribe in this context.<span
style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The DEIS leaves the wrong
impression that the
KBRA limits irrigation diversions below the level that can
lawfully occur under
the existing BiOp.</p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText" style="text-indent:36.0pt"><a
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style="font-size:12.0pt"> We find it unusual that the
reference to this
mysterious 100,000 acre feet water volume savings first
appears in an earlier
draft of Hetrick, et al. (2009) but is not included in the
Final version of the
same report.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:12.0pt">DEIS Proposed Action water
volumes were calculated
from exceedance tables presented in Appendix F of
(Reclamation 2011).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoFootnoteText"
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title=""><span class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt"><span
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class="MsoFootnoteReference"><span
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style="font-size:12.0pt"> 2010 NMFS Biological Opinion
water volumes were
calculated from Table 18 of (NMFS 2010)<b
style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">.</b>
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