<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:18pt"><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 13px; ">On Wednesday, June 11, 2014 11:12 AM, Barbara Vlamis <barbarav@aqualliance.net> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block; "><div style="font-size: 18pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; "><div style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; "><div dir="ltr"> </div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv6682402871">
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<div class="yiv6682402871MsoNormal"><b style=""><b style=""><span style="font-size:18.0pt;">Press Release</span></b></b><b style=""><br>
11 June 2014</b><b style=""><span style="font-size:14.0pt;"><br>
For Immediate Release </span></b></div>
<div class="yiv6682402871MsoNormal"> <b style="
">Contact:</b> Barbara Vlamis, AquAlliance: 530-895-9420;
cell
530-519-7468
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<div class="yiv6682402871MsoNormal" style=""><span style=""> </span>Bill
Jennings, CSPA: 209-464-5067; cell 209-938-9053 </div>
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<div class="yiv6682402871MsoNormal" style="text-align:center;" align="center"><b style=""><span style="font-size:14.0pt;">Lawsuit Filed
to Protect North State Farms, Fish and Communities</span></b></div>
<div class="yiv6682402871MsoNormal" style=""> On 11 June
2014, <span style="color:black;">AquAlliance and the California
Sportfishing Protection
Alliance (CSPA) filed a lawsuit in federal District Court<a rel="nofollow" name="_GoBack" href=""></a>
against the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation USBR over its inadequate
disclosure,
avoidance of impacts, and mitigation of major water transfers
from the
Sacramento Valley through the Delta to the San Joaquin Valley.
USBR proposes to
transfer up to 175,226 acre-feet (AF) of Central Valley Project
(CVP) surface
water to San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority (SLDMWA). As
much as 116,383 AF
of that water may be in the form of groundwater substitution.
Coinciding with
the USBR transfer, the State Water Project (SWP) and private
parties are
proposing to transfer another possible 305,907 AF or more of
water. The lawsuit
asks the court to declare that USBR’s Environmental Assessment
(EA) and Finding
of No Significant Impact (FONSI) was arbitrary and capricious,
ignored relevant
new information and failed to meet minimum requirements of the
National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). <br>
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<div class="yiv6682402871MsoNormal" style="">See attached press
release for the full version.</div>
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Barbara Vlamis
Executive Director
AquAlliance
P.O. Box 4024
Chico, CA 95927
(530) 895-9420
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