<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:18pt"><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 class="y_msg_container"><div id="yiv4506237289"><div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-size: 18pt; font-family: HelveticaNeue, 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, 'Lucida Grande', sans-serif; "><div class="yiv4506237289" style=""><span class="yiv4506237289" style="font-size: 15px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "><h2 style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
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Center</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Earth Law Center</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
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Magazine</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Foothill Conservancy</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial,
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River</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Food & Water Watch</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial,
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Resources</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">The Karuk Tribe</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial,
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Environmental</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Center</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
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Council,</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Federation of Fly Fishers</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial,
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of</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Fishermen's Associations</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial,
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League</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Restore the Delta</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial,
Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Sacramento River
Preservation</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Trust</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Sierra Club California</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Southern California Watershed</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "
class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Alliance</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Winnemem Wintu Tribe</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"> </div><div
style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><font class="yiv4506237289" size="4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">The Environmental Water Caucus has responded to the Bay Delta Conservation Plan and its associated Environmental Impact Report with a stinging 250-page critique of BDCP’s inadequacies and multiple failures to conform to state and federal laws. Among the criticisms detailed in the Caucus’ review are that it is contrary to the
Delta Reform Act of 2009, it fails to provide adequate ecological assurances under state and federal endangered species laws, it fails to assure funding for the project, and it fails to analyze reasonable alternatives to the
preferred plan for huge tunnels under the Delta. Other points highlighted by the Caucus include:</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><font class="yiv4506237289" size="4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">· Exporting more water out of the Delta was a foregone conclusion for the main proponents of the plan, which are the powerful water districts south of the Delta. BDCP has cherry picked the science to support that objective and has created 40,000 pages of biased analytical findings to support that predetermined goal, trying to hide the real intent in the process.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom:
7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><font class="yiv4506237289" size="4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">· Federal and state laws require that a permissible project must contain a solid financing plan – precisely the kind of plan that BDCP lacks. Even after seven years of planning and debate, BDCP fails to spell out who will be responsible for the $50 to $60 billion cost.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><font class="yiv4506237289" size="4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Tax payers can expect to pick up most of that tab.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;
padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><font class="yiv4506237289" size="4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">· The Bay Delta “Conservation” Plan has little to do with conservation. In an effort to mislead the public, BDCP disingenuously characterizes the eight-lane expressway sized tunnels that will drain the Delta of life sustaining freshwater as a “Conservation </font>Measure”.</div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><font class="yiv4506237289" size="4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">· Purporting to restore Delta
ecosystems and protect its most vulnerable fish species, BDCP would instead further reduce natural Delta flows to San Francisco Bay, helping push listed, vulnerable salmon and resident fish species into oblivion, and officiate at the demise of California’s salmon industry.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><font class="yiv4506237289" size="4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">· BDCP proffers the snake-oil hypothesis that physical habitat can substitute for water flows, while ignoring the fact that water is aquatic habitat. While BDCP analyzes the tunnels at a specific project level, habitat is only analyzed at a conceptual level. BDCP only promises to restore some acres of habitat somewhere at
sometime in the future, if funding can be secured, while ignoring that most habitat restoration efforts in the past have failed to achieve predicted results.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><font class="yiv4506237289" size="4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">· BDCP will degrade water quality and harm beneficial uses of water in the Delta, along with promoting wasteful and unreasonable uses of water south of the Delta, contrary to numerous state and federal water quality laws and the California Water Code.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family:
Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><font class="yiv4506237289" size="4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">· While BDCP trumpets the risks to California’s water supply from massive Delta levee failures due to earthquakes, BDCP lifts not a finger to address these supposed seismic levee issues.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><font class="yiv4506237289" size="4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">· The current plan heightens opposition to the project, reinforcing the view that this project must not go forward.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px;
padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><font class="yiv4506237289" size="4" style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; ">Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, of Restore the Delta, characterizes the BDCP as “a construction project masquerading as a habitat conservation plan”. “The plan is an omelet of distortion and half-truth intended to mislead and deceive”, according to Bill Jennings of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance. The Environmental Water Caucus proposes an alternative that reduces water exports to a more sustainable level, in order to permit recovery of the Delta while maintaining water supplies for both Delta and south of Delta water users.</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal
9px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">See the detailed Caucus comments at: <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.ewccalifornia.org/" style="color: rgb(0, 77, 145); text-decoration: underline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">www.ewccalifornia.org</a></span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px;
padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">CONTACTS:</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica,
sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Conner Everts, Environmental Water Caucus</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">connere@west.net, 310-804-6615</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px;
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margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Barbara Barrigan-Parrilla, Restore the Delta</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; "
class="yiv4506237289">barbara@restorethedelta.org, 209-479-2053</span></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"> </div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 7px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 7px; padding-left: 0px; font-size: 11pt; font: normal normal normal 10px/normal Times; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.c-win.org/webfm_send/438" style="color: rgb(0, 77, 145); text-decoration: underline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; "
class="yiv4506237289"><span style="font-size: 18px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; " class="yiv4506237289">Environmental Water Caucus BDCP EIS-EIR comments, June 11, 2014</span></span></a></div></div></div></div></span></div></div></div></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div> </div></body></html>