<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Attached is the language from the Implementation Plan for the Trinity ROD, which is also Appendix C for the Final EIS for the Trinity River Mainstem Fishery Restoration EIS/EIR, located at <a href="http://www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries/reports/technical/treis/final/appndx_c.pdf">http://www.fws.gov/arcata/fisheries/reports/technical/treis/final/appndx_c.pdf</a>. <div><br></div><div>Given the public controversy over the mainstem projects, the word "may" should be "shall". It only makes sense to take a break if there have been problems and concerns.</div><div><br><div>
<span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div><div>Tom Stokely<br>Water Policy Analyst/Media Contact<br>California Water Impact Network<br>V/FAX 530-926-9727<br>Cell 530-524-0315<br><a href="mailto:tstokely@att.net">tstokely@att.net</a><br>http://www.c-win.org</div></div></span>
</div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; color: rgb(79, 80, 82); ">"Twenty-four sites are proposed during the first three years of construction <span style="font: 11.5px Helvetica; color: #636465">if </span>adequate</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; color: rgb(79, 80, 82); ">funding is available. Additional projects <span style="font: 11.5px Helvetica">will </span>be <span style="color: #636465">constructed </span>after evaluation of the first</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; color: rgb(79, 80, 82); ">series of projects under Adaptive <span style="color: #636465">Environmental Assessment </span>and Management. This</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; color: rgb(79, 80, 82); ">evaluation <span style="font: 11.5px Helvetica">will </span>be ongoing beginning with construction of the first projects, but an interim</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; color: rgb(79, 80, 82); ">period without construction <span style="color: #636465">activities </span>may be necessary to fully <span style="color: #636465">evaluate </span>the <span style="color: #636465">effectiveness </span>of</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; color: rgb(79, 80, 82); ">project designs and the effect of the new flow regime before beginning <span style="color: #636465">construction on </span>the</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 11.5px/normal Times; color: rgb(79, 80, 82); ">remaining <span style="color: #636465">sites."</span></div></div><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div><div></div></div></body></html>