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<DIV>In a message dated 6/27/2012 1:55:29 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
tstokely@att.net writes:</DIV>
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style="BORDER-LEFT: blue 2px solid; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px"><FONT
style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2 face=Arial>You may
find the attached of interest. Siskiyou County filed a petition to the
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in response to the Hoopa Valley Tribe's
petition for FERC on the issue of relicensing Pacificorps' Klamath
Dams.</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>Colleagues...</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>Siskiyou County's supporting a return to FERC just underscores the
fact that by far the most likely outcome of the FERC process on its own
(assuming the KHSA no longer holds) is RELICENSING, not dam
decommissioning. People forget that this was FERC Staff's strong
recommendation back in 2007. FERC has never ordered a dam down in its
history <U>except</U> pursuant to a Settlement like the KHSA. There
is no special reason they would do so in this one case. <EM>This is
an agency of which it is said that it has never seen a dam it did not
like!</EM></FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>And remember, one of these four dams (J.C. Boyle) is in Oregon,
where the water quality laws are much weaker, the environmental
agencies even more timid about denying a 401 Certification and facing
massive litigation, and the water quality impacts of the Oregon dam are the
least of them all. J.C. Boyle also generates up to 80 MW -- the large
majority of the generation of the whole system -- and therefore is by far the
most valuable dam to keep, should it come to FERC. (Iron Gate = only 18
MW)</FONT></DIV>
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face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: transparent" color=#000000 size=2
face=Arial>A return to FERC risks at least a partial relicensing, and the loss
of this unique opportunity for full river restoration for up to the next 50
years. Compared to the KHSA now in hand, which offers four-dam
removal within the next 8 years, Parties to the KHSA such as
PCFFA consider this "return to FERC and FERC will fix it" strategy to be
very high risk. Some of my esteemed colleagues clearly disagree with me,
particularly the Hoopa Tribe. But the fact that Siskiyou County is now
cheering on the Hoopa Tribe's Petition to FERC to resume control over the
relicensing process should give one great pause about the potential outcomes of
that "return to FERC" strategy.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV>As the great Yogi Berra said, "It is always dangerous to make predictions
-- <EM>especially</EM> about the future."</DIV>
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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></FONT></FONT></BODY></HTML>