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<DIV>Tom... </DIV>
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<DIV>Actually, citing the Condit Dam example rather undercuts
your proposition that FERC would order Klamath dams removed in this
case, directly or indirectly. <EM>Fact is, Condit Dam was removed pursuant
to a Settlement Agreement that was in fact the model or template for the
Klamath Hydropower Settlement Agreement (KHSA).</EM> I suppose we
could argue chicken-egg issues forever, but the fact still remains that a
negotiated Settlement of the sort the KHSA represents is still the most
straightforward, least risky, and least expensive way to remove all four
dams. If ultimately the KHSA fails, and we are all forced to go back to
the FERC process, it may well be a very different outcome than the Hoopa Valley
Tribe hopes for. <STRONG>Certainly Siskiyou County thinks so, which is why
they are supporting the Tribe's Petition!</STRONG> </DIV>
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<DIV>A copy of the Condit Dam Settlement Agreement is attached for those who are
interested. Its a large file, so those not interested should merely ignore
it. </DIV>
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<DIV>You might take note that the GOP-led House of Representatives is
positioning to take authority to require fish passage and other relicensing
preconditions <U>away</U> from federal agencies. There was a hearing
on this very issue just today, titled: "Mandatory Conditioning
Requirements on Hydropower: Howe Federal Resource Agencies<EM> are Driving
Up Electricity Costs and Decreasing the Original Green Energy." </EM>
A link to an archive webcast site for that hearing is at::</DIV>
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style="COLOR: black">Needless to say, relying soley on FERC also means
relying on the federal government’s and that is controlled by Congress’
willingness to require environmental protections such as fish passage in old
dams.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><EM>This willingness cannot
be taken for granted.</EM><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>But
a signed Settlement on dam removal would be at least in large part immune
from changes in the Federal Power Act.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
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<DIV><FONT lang=0 size=2 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF"
PTSIZE="10">======================================<BR>Glen H. Spain, Northwest
Regional Director<BR>Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen's Associations
(PCFFA)<BR>PO Box 11170, Eugene, OR 97440-3370<BR>Office: (541)689-2000 Fax:
(541)689-2500<BR>Web Home Page: <A
href="http://www.pcffa.org/">www.pcffa.org</A><BR>Email:
fish1ifr@aol.com</FONT></DIV></DIV>
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<DIV>In a message dated 6/27/2012 3:08:14 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
t.schlosser@msaj.com writes:</DIV>
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size=3>You shouldn't repeat the old falsehood that</FONT><FONT size=2>
<BIG>"</BIG></FONT><BIG><FONT color=#000000><BIG><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2><BIG><BIG>FERC has
never ordered a dam down in its history <U>except</U> pursuant to a
Settlement like the KHSA."</BIG></BIG></FONT></BIG></FONT><FONT
color=#000000><BIG><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent"
color=#000000><BIG><BIG><FONT size=3><FONT size=2> </FONT>You ignore the many
dam removals that are occurring as a result of the FERC process. It's half
true that FERC normally hasn't "ordered" removal, but the whole truth is that
FERC orders have forced the parties to agree to removal of the dams, which
FERC approves. Didn't anyone see the Condit dam destroyed last
October.</FONT><FONT size=3><BR><BR>Why did PacifiCorp remove Condit? Was it
purely voluntary? No, it was because FERC's license included the agencies'
sec. 18 prescriptions--requirements of volitional upstream and downstream fish
passage, as FERC is compelled to do by the Supreme Court's <I>Escondido</I>
decision in 1984 and, more recently, the <I>City of Tacoma</I> case in 2006
(</FONT><A title=http://www.msaj.com/cases/051054a.pdf
href="http://www.msaj.com/cases/051054a.pdf"><FONT size=3>here</FONT></A><FONT
size=3>). <BR>
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