<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:garamond, new york, times, serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191566" dir="ltr"><a href="http://www.redding.com/news/local/lamalfa-criticized-dam-removal-process-2cf81491-89a6-2e3c-e053-0100007f8293-370868711.html#" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191839">http://www.redding.com/news/local/lamalfa-criticized-dam-removal-process-2cf81491-89a6-2e3c-e053-0100007f8293-370868711.html#</a><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191566"><br></div><div class="" style="margin: 20px 156px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 988px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191716"><h1 class="" style="margin-top: 5px; margin-bottom: 5px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'PT Sans Narrow', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 55px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 58px; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(0, 0, 0);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191718">LaMalfa criticizes dam removal process</h1></div><div class="" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'PT Sans', sans-serif; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-y: auto; overflow-x: hidden; color: rgb(34, 34, 34);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191720"><div class="" style="margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; float: left; width: calc(100% - 330px);" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191722"><div class="" style="margin: 0px auto 18px 291px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191724"><a class="" href="http://media.jrn.com/images/0412_RCLO_BoyleDam.JPG" rel="inpage-gallery" title="FILE - This Aug. 21, 2009 file photo shows the J.C. Boyle Dam diverting water from the Klamath River to a powerhouse downstream near Keno, Ore. The U.S. Department of Interior on Thursday, April 4, 2013, issued a final environmental impact statement recommending this and three other dams be removed from the Klamath River to help struggling wild salmon runs. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(38, 72, 150); text-decoration: none;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191726" title-off=""><img src="http://media.jrn.com/images/660*441/0412_RCLO_BoyleDam.JPG" alt="FILE - This Aug. 21, 2009 file photo shows the J.C. Boyle Dam diverting water from the Klamath River to a powerhouse downstream near Keno, Ore. The U.S. Department of Interior on Thursday, April 4, 2013, issued a final environmental impact statement recommending this and three other dams be removed from the Klamath River to help struggling wild salmon runs. (AP Photo/Jeff Barnard)" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 600px; min-height: auto; display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191727" class="" data-id="7b50917d-2b54-25a7-6cf7-7dba900a12b2"></a><div class="" style="margin: 5px 0px 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: 'PT Sans', Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 1.4; vertical-align: baseline; overflow-y: auto;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191729">FILE - This Aug. 21, 2009 file photo shows the J.C. Boyle Dam diverting water from the Klamath River to a powerhouse downstream near Keno, Ore. The U.S. Department of Interior on Thursday, April 4, 2013, issued a final environmental impact statement recommending this and three other dams be removed from the Klamath River to help struggling wild salmon runs. 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padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191765"></div></div><div class="" style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; line-height: 18px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px; font-style: italic;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191767">By <a href="mailto:damon.arthur@redding.com" target="_blank" style="border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(38, 72, 150); text-decoration: none;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191769" class="">Damon Arthur</a> of the Redding Record Searchlight</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191771" class="">A North State Congressman accused the federal government this week of creating a "shell corporation" to disguise its role in removing dams on the Klamath River.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191773" class="">U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa also said there are meetings being held in secret to work out details of a dam removal plan, and leaders of the negotiations are forcing those who attend to sign nondisclosure agreements.</div><div style="margin: 0px auto 18px 291px; padding: 30px 0px 116.390625px; border: 0px; font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: 28px; vertical-align: baseline; max-width: 600px; position: relative; min-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191775" class=""><object data="http://rdcfeeds.redding.com/promotion/previewGallery.cfm?galleryName=StoryPromotion" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; ; top: 0px; left: 0px; width: 600px; min-height: 146.390625px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191777" class=""></object></div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191779" class="">"We're seeing an administration that claims to be the most transparent in history engaged in closed meetings, neck-deep in a shell corporation and requiring stakeholders to sign nondisclosure agreements just to learn how they'll be affected," LaMalfa said in a news release.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191781" class="">"This seems like a front company in a process designed to avoid public scrutiny and avoid open government laws. The (Obama) administration is moving forward with its goal of dam removal while ignoring the water supply issues that impact thousands of residents," he said.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191783" class="">LaMalfa was referring to an agreement struck last month among Oregon, California, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the dams' owner, PacifiCorp, to remove four dams on the Klamath River.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191785" class="">The agreement includes creating a private nonprofit corporation to apply for a permit to remove the dams from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191787" class="">PacificCorp spokesman Bob Gravely said the nonprofit corporation will take over ownership of the dam so the federal government isn't involved. A previous agreement to remove the dams died at the end of last year after Congress failed to pass legislation approving dam removal.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191789" class="">Because Congress didn't authorize funding to take out the dams, Oregon, California and PacifiCorp are paying the bill, Gravely said.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191791" class="">But during a Congressional committee hearing Monday, LaMalfa questioned Deputy Interior Secretary Mike Connor about spending money on the project without Congressional approval.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191793" class="">As to the nondisclosure agreements, Gravely said the agreements are routine for negotiations. He said it would be unusual not to ask for a nondisclosure agreement.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191795" class="">But Kevin Eastman, a spokesman for LaMalfa, said negotiations involving public projects should be held in public.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191797" class="">"If it's common, then it's inappropriate on a regular basis," Eastman said.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191799" class="">LaMalfa believes that because the dams are private property the federal government should not be paying to have them removed, Eastman said.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191801" class="">But dam removal proponents say taking out the dams would improve conditions in the river for salmon and other wildlife.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191803" class="">Craig Tucker, a natural resource policy advocate for the Karuk Tribe, said LaMalfa did not participate in the first agreement and did not advocate in Congress for a law to pay for removing the dams, but is now criticizing the current negotiations.</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191805" class="">"Where has he been all these years? We've been working on this for 10 years," Tucker said. "There's nothing shady, secret or unprecedented about any of this."</div><div style="font-family: Tinos, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; line-height: 28px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 291px; max-width: 600px;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_1_1456876271740_191807" class="">LaMalfa also said he was concerned that because the agency will be a nongovernment entity, it would not be subject to federal Freedom of Information Act or California Public Records Act laws.</div></div></div></div></body></html>