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margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30771">The stakeholder group that provides input on Trinity River Restoration Program decisions has been suspended by the Trump administration along with more than 200 other federal advisory commissions while a review is conducted.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30772"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30773">The Trinity Adaptive Management Working Group (TAMWG) advises the Trinity Management Council, the agency/tribal board of directors for the river restoration program.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30774"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30775">The TAMWG was going to meet in early June but that meeting was canceled. Another meeting was being scheduled for mid-July, but that too was canceled because of the suspension, TAMWG Chair Tom Stokely said.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30776"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30777"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30778">“We don’t know when it’s going to meet,” Stokely said, adding that meanwhile, things are happening.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30779"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30780">It’s possible that the program could pass its fiscal year 2018 budget in June, Stokely said, and there are watershed project proposals being ranked.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30781"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30782">The program’s annual budget is approximately $15 million.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30783"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30784">The stakeholder group feels a lot of its recommendations are rejected by the management council, he said, “but at least we have an opportunity to give them input.”</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30785"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30786">There are many other advisory committees affected as well, including the Resource Advisory Committees that deliver public input to the federal Bureau of Land Management. A coalition of Western Democratic lawmakers wrote to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke asking that he allow the RACS to do their work.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30787"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30788">From the Interior Department, spokeswoman Heather Swift said in an email that the department is reviewing the charters and charges of advisory commissions under the Federal Advisory Committee Act to maximize feedback from these boards and to ensure their compliance with both FACA and President Trump’s recent executive orders.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30789"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30790">“An initial roll call of the advisory committees revealed that many of the committees advising the department were not operating at their full potential, were not using taxpayer dollars efficiently, or were not meeting basic benchmarks of FACA,” she said, adding that many had several vacancies, making the board inoperable, and others simply hadn’t met for some time during the previous administration.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30791"></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30792"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30793">“As the review proceeds in the coming days and weeks, many committees will resume their regularly scheduled meetings, and the Department fully expects the majority of committees to resume by September,” Swift said. “Additionally, several committees have already been given exemptions or clearance to resume.”</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30794"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30795">“This is a standard review process which previous administrations have also conducted during the transition process,” Swift said.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30796"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30797">Stokely responded that at the beginning of the Obama administration there were some bureaucratic delays involving the TAMWG charter and membership appointments that in turn delayed meetings. But the meetings have never been suspended with charter and membership approved, he said, and there has never been a systemwide suspension of all federal advisory committee meetings.</div></div><div style="box-sizing: border-box;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30798"><div style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-bottom: 24px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); font-size: 16px; line-height: 27px;" dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1496191043557_30799">The TAMWG has 15 members with a variety of interests, “but a lot of the time we come together with recommendations to better the program,” he said, adding that there are a couple of vacancies but with the suspension the filling of those positions is on hold.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>