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font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: inherit;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203488">House Adopts LaMalfa Regulation Reform & Drought Language, Includes Reservoir Study, Levee Upgrade in Bill </div></div></div></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203492"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203491"><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 10px; padding-right: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203490"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203496"><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203495"><div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203494"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203493">Washington, DC</strong> – Rep. Doug LaMalfa (R-CA) applauds the passage of the Energy and Water Appropriations bill. When the bill passed today, it included two amendments sponsored by Rep. LaMalfa intended to roll back excessive regulations and protect California’s access to water supplies during the drought. Additionally, LaMalfa was successful in securing funds for a levee project in the North State and accelerate the completion of the Sites feasibility study. LaMalfa’s first amendment prevents the Army Corps of Engineers from ignoring regulatory exemptions for farming activities</div><div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203498"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203497">“The amendment I sponsored prohibits the Army Corps of Engineers from using creative interpretations of the law to penalize farmers for changing crops or fallowing fields. Congress never intended for the Corps to interpret the law in this way, and the House has once again expressed its opposition to this overreach.”</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203506"><font color="#9c005c" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203698">LaMalfa’s second proposal will prevent the Bureau of Reclamation from diverting water from cities and farms beyond what is required by the Trinity Record of Decision (ROD). In 2013 and 2014, the Bureau ignored the ROD to divert even more water toward environmental purposes.</font></div><div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203503"><font color="#9c005c" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203696"><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203505">“I’m also pleased that the House supported my language preventing the Bureau of Reclamation from abandoning the Trinity Record of Decision and diverting more water away from the Central Valley Project,” </strong>continued LaMalfa.<strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203504"> “Despite the state’s historic drought, the Bureau has diverted far more water for environmental purposes that the Record of Decision allows, depriving the state of water that could supply hundreds of thousands of Californians. We need every drop we can spare during this crisis, and this amendment will put an end to this misuse.” </strong></font></div><div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">LaMalfa also was successful in working with Rep. David Valadao from the Central Valley in securing language in the final funding bill aimed at increasing water infrastructure in the North State, and across California. The measure instructs the Bureau of Reclamation to finish and submit feasibility studies for three dam expansion and two dam creation proposals, including language setting a 2016 deadline on the study of Sites Reservoir. California's voters approved $2.7 billion in construction funds for projects like Sites, and the state will begin selecting projects to fund at the end of 2016.</div><div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">"California's voters have spoken strongly in support of funding projects like Sites Reservoir, and completing the study brings us one step closer to construction. It's time to end the decades of studies and start working to ensure that California's farms, cities and environment have water in generations to come."</strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">LaMalfa also announced that the measure provided $15 million toward the Hamilton City levee construction project, which will protect 1,800 residents from flooding. </div><div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">“We’ve again been successful in providing funding to rebuild Hamilton City’s levees, protecting families and farms from winter floods. The community’s contributions to this project are paying dividends today, and we hope to secure final funding for this project in the coming year.” </strong></div><div style="margin-bottom: 20px; padding-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class=""><strong style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;" class="">To view Rep. LaMalfa's comments on the House floor, please click here: </strong>https://youtu.be/JRB3CJGLPAE</div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 1px 0px 0px; border-top-style: solid; border-top-color: rgb(221, 221, 221); outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit;"><div class="" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; padding-top: 0.25em; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0.25em; border: 0px; outline: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; display: inline;"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1430517204395_203422" dir="ltr"> </div><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>tstokely@att.net<br>http://www.c-win.org</div></div></div></body></html>