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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>And I <b><u>respectfully</u></b> disagree, as well (‘fingers sometimes get ahead of my brain …)<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Kier Associates [mailto:kierassociates@att.net] <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 23, 2015 1:21 PM<br><b>To:</b> 'Thomas P. Schlosser'<br><b>Cc:</b> 'Greg King'; 'env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us'<br><b>Subject:</b> RE: [env-trinity] Disease killing young Klamath River salmon<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I respectively disagree, Tom. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The PUCs have a cozy relationship with the regulated utilities (in my view) and they would - perhaps after some counterarguments from their ‘ombudsman’ offices – have allowed recovery of the fish-passage costs. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>I don’t think the puny output of the KHP would have served as an argument against incurring the fish-passage costs. I don’t see that kind of cost-effectiveness consideration being applied by the PUCs elsewhere. Do you? <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The PUCs have allowed the dam removal cost surcharges to fall on the ratepayers because a decommissioning deal was struck (lest we forget) at the highest possible levels, by the two Governors and the Sec’y of the Interior. The PUCs’ surcharge imposition was <i>pro forma</i> given the political level of that decommissioning deal-making<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>‘Best,<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bill Kier<o:p></o:p></span></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> Thomas P. Schlosser <a href="mailto:[mailto:t.schlosser@msaj.com]">[mailto:t.schlosser@msaj.com]</a> <br><b>Sent:</b> Saturday, May 23, 2015 12:44 PM<br><b>To:</b> Kier Associates<br><b>Cc:</b> Greg King; <a href="mailto:env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us">env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [env-trinity] Disease killing young Klamath River salmon<o:p></o:p></span></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>No, simply incurring relicensing costs doesn't mean the PUC allows them to be imposed on ratepayers. These costs would be unreasonable for the power involved and could not be approved. This is why the PUCs have allowed the dam removal cost surcharges to be imposed instead. It's why PacifiCorp favors removal too, though they want it delayed as long as possible.<br><br>Sent from my phone<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br>On May 23, 2015, at 8:35 AM, Kier Associates <<a href="mailto:kierassociates@att.net">kierassociates@att.net</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Greg</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>One comment: </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>The fish/river conservation community did in fact sort of dance in the street when the administrative law judge ruled for the fish agencies that PacifiCorp would have to build fish ladders/somehow provide fish passage on the river – but that’s because members of the fish conservation community by and large don’t understand how the states regulate utilities like PacifiCorp. </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Those fish-ladders/whatever would have clearly been a cost of doing business, recoverable by PacifiCorp through its rate base. That is, rate-payers would have paid for those fish-passage facilities. PacifiCorp would have not only passed those costs on to its ratepayers with the express permission of the two state PUCs but would have collected its usual profit (something like 9 percent at the time of the administrative law judge’s ruling) on that $400 million.</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>‘Not making a case for the KBRA here but simply trying to expose my fish-conservation brothers and sisters to the mysterious ways of state-regulated utilities economics</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>(I do agree that winning the Section 401 Clean Water Act permit from the states needed to complete the hydro project relicensing process, would have been a near impossibility given just how solid the cooperation was among the Tribes, the states and the fish agencies in documenting and communicating the adverse water quality impact of PacifiCorp’s project. But I think it’s also worth noting that we have some PG&E hydro projects in CA, for which relicensing has not been completed, that are running on yr-to-yr permission from FERC – and have been doing so <u>for decades</u>) </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>‘Best,</span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'> </span><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>Bill Kier</span><o:p></o:p></p><div><div style='border:none;border-top:solid #B5C4DF 1.0pt;padding:3.0pt 0in 0in 0in'><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> env-trinity [<a href="mailto:env-trinity-bounces+kierassociates=att.net@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us">mailto:env-trinity-bounces+kierassociates=att.net@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us</a>] <b>On Behalf Of </b>Greg King<br><b>Sent:</b> Thursday, May 21, 2015 4:36 PM<br><b>To:</b> Thomas P. Schlosser<br><b>Cc:</b> <a href="mailto:env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us">env-trinity@velocipede.dcn.davis.ca.us</a><br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [env-trinity] Disease killing young Klamath River salmon</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Too bad all the alleged "greens" and tribal reps bought the PacifiCorp/Bush Administration lie that negotiating with them for the KBRA — rather than insisting that PC build the court-ordered fish ladders, whose nearly $400 million cost could have cajoled PC to tear down the dams, which weren't worth that much; and rather than continue to pursue the required 401 Certification for the dams, which would have been very difficult for PC to obtain given the virtual impossibility of the water behind the dams satisfying this provision of the Clean Water Act; and rather than enforcing the ESA biological opinion requirement of a minimum flow of 1,000 cfs at Iron Gate — would be the Klamath's panacea rather than its undoing, as we're seeing today with PC's and the irrigators' ongoing water grab. Combine this folly with the underhandedness of many if not most of the people who negotiated in favor of the corporate-government deal and it's no wonder that today almost no one wants to step up to defend the beleaguered Klamath. What a mess.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Thank you Tom, and the Hoopa Tribe, for continuing to move forward with integrity. <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal>Greg King<o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal> <o:p></o:p></p><div><div><p class=MsoNormal>On May 21, 2015, at 9:57 AM, Thomas P. Schlosser <<a href="mailto:t.schlosser@msaj.com">t.schlosser@msaj.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><br><br><o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>I grabbed the wrong KPOP by mistake; the 2015 Annual Operations Plan, page 2, calls for diverting<b> 254,500 af to irrigation</b>, a policy choice to favor irrigation over fisheries requirements.<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 5/21/2015 8:09 AM, Thomas P. Schlosser wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>It's worth remebering that when Reclamation says (below) that there's too little water to help now ("We decided that is not the most optimal use of a very short water supply at this point,” Person said.") they are still using a 2014 Annual Operations Plan for the Klamath Project which, at page 2 calculates the project supply of water to be diverted from the Klamath at <b>239,000 acre-feet</b>. This is what they consider to be "most optimal."<br>Tom<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On 5/21/2015 6:32 AM, Tom Stokely wrote:<o:p></o:p></p></div><blockquote style='margin-top:5.0pt;margin-bottom:5.0pt'><div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15381"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'><a href="http://www.redding.com/news/local-news/disease-killing-young-klamath-river-salmon_18847031">http://www.redding.com/news/local-news/disease-killing-young-klamath-river-salmon_18847031</a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15381"><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'> </span><o:p></o:p></p></div><h1 style='mso-margin-top-alt:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:9.0pt;margin-left:0in;line-height:23.65pt;background:white;box-sizing: border-box;padding-top:1.125rem' id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15457"><span style='font-size:22.5pt;font-family:"Helvetica","sans-serif"'>Disease killing young Klamath River salmon</span><o:p></o:p></h1><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15460"><address style='line-height:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:inherit;color:#636466;font-style:normal'>Damon Arthur </span><o:p></o:p></address><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15459"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#636466'>5:50 PM, May 20, 2015</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15461"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#636466'>5:51 PM, May 20, 2015</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15463"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:12.0pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";color:#636466'><a href="http://www.redding.com/topic/local+news"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:inherit;color:#2F6194;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>local news</span></a> | <a href="http://www.redding.com/topic/homepage+showcase" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15536"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:inherit;color:#2F6194;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>homepage showcase</span></a> | <a href="http://www.redding.com/topic/tablet+showcase" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15462"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:inherit;color:#2F6194;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>tablet showcase</span></a> | <a href="http://www.redding.com/topic/happening+now"><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:inherit;color:#2F6194;border:none windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in;text-decoration:none'>happening now</span></a></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15447"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15469"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15468"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15467"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15465"><p class=MsoNormal align=center style='text-align:center;line-height:0%;background:white'><span style='font-size:1.0pt;font-family:a'> <span style='border:solid windowtext 1.0pt;padding:0in'><~WRD000.jpg></span></span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#888888'>Copyright 2015 Journal Media Group. 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This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div style='margin-bottom:4.5pt;box-sizing: border-box'><div style='margin-top:6.0pt;box-sizing: border-box;font-size:0.75rem;line-height:0.75rem;float:left'><p class=MsoNormal style='background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif";text-transform:uppercase'>JEFF BARNARD/AP PHOTO</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal align=right style='text-align:right;background:white'><span style='font-family:"Garamond","serif"'>SHOW CAPTION</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15452"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15451"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15450"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15449"><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>KLAMATH RIVER, California - A disease flourishing in warm drought conditions in the Klamath River is killing young salmon and steelhead trying to migrate out to sea.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>And while in some sections of the river disease has been found in nearly all of the fish tested, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials also said Wednesday the drought has left little water available to send downstream to improve conditions.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>The Klamath Fish Health Assessment Team says conditions in the river are at orange, which means a fish kill is likely and federal and state agencies need to be alerted.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>“Orange is probably underplaying the crisis,” said Craig Tucker, natural resources policy advocate for the Karuk Tribe, one of several groups with the assessment team that has biologists monitoring the river.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>Scott Foott, project leader for the California-Nevada Fish Health Center in Anderson, said about 90 percent of the fish from Klamath brought to his center for testing have the disease, called ceratonova Shasta.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>Foott didn’t know how many fish were dying of the disease in the river, but said mortality rate among fish with the disease is very high. Fish biologists said conditions in the river are bad this year because of the lack of rain and runoff from snowmelt.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>Randy Turner, the fish health assessment team coordinator, said with low flows and warm water, worms that carry the disease have flourished on the streambed.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>The problem isn’t as bad in years when the river is cooler and runs higher and faster in the winter and spring because the current kicks up the gravel and cobble on the streambed, disrupting the worms’ life cycle, he said.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>The worst section of the Klamath River is from the Shasta River west of Interstate 5 to more than 80 miles downstream to the Salmon River, Turner said.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>Brian Person, acting area manager of the bureau’s Yreka office, said Wednesday that after consulting with other agencies, they could not send more water downstream to improve conditions for the fish.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>“We decided that is not the most optimal use of a very short water supply at this point,” Person said.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1432214484360_15448"><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>The bureau, as well as other federal and state wildlife agencies, would continue to monitor the fish in the river and could at some point decide to send more water downstream if conditions change, Person said.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>If the readiness level on the river goes from orange to red — which means a fish kill is occurring — there is probably little officials can do because so little water is available upstream in the river, Tucker said.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>Even if more water was sent downstream there probably isn’t enough available to benefit the young salmon, Tucker said. And if they use extra water in the spring to help the young salmon swimming out to sea, there might not be enough water in the fall to help the salmon returning from the ocean to spawn.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>During the past few years bureau officials have had to release more water from the Trinity River to prevent a different disease from killing spawning salmon in the Klamath. That disease, called “ich,” has affected areas below where the Trinity flows into the Klamath River.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>The young fish dying from the ceratonova Shasta in the Klamath River are upstream of its confluence with the Trinity River, Turner said.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>It is likely a large percentage of this year’s salmon hatch will not make it out to sea, which means there will be fewer adult salmon returning back upstream to spawn in three years, Tucker said.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-family:inherit;color:#1A1A1A'>“I think we’re definitely going to take a hit when the adults return,” he said.</span><o:p></o:p></p></div></div></div><div><p class=MsoNormal style='line-height:21.6pt;background:white'><span style='font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#1A1A1A'>Copyright 2015 Journal Media Group. 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