[env-trinity] Hoopa Valley Tribe's Press Release

[Byron Leydecker]

The Hoopa Valley Tribe's recent press release is absurd and contains
incorrect assertions and facts.

 

The facts are as follows:

 

Since the Tribe was not a litigant in the Friant case, it obviously, legally
had no place in the Settlement Talks among the litigants.

 

Participants in the current closed door Hearings hosted by Senator Feinstein
were chosen by her - neither the NRDC, nor any other organization, had
absolutely any role in selection of participants.  Participants apparently
were selected by her alone or with some other Members of Congress.
Representative George Miller (Miller/Bradley 1992), by far the most
knowledgeable member of Congress on California developed water allocation
issues, was not invited to participate.

 

I'm aware of stakeholders that requested to be included and were.
Apparently, the tribe or its D.C. representatives did not even ask to be
included.  

 

The provisions the Tribe wants included in San Joaquin restoration
legislation have no conceivable benefit for restoration of the Trinity.
They would do nothing for anyone, nor for any program.  They are
meaningless.

 

The statement that up to 25 percent of Miller/Bradley Restoration Funds
could be diverted to San Joaquin restoration is false.  That settlement
provides for up to $2 million annually for San Joaquin restoration, the
amount the Trinity Restoration Program will receive in FY 08 and has
received in the past, except for one year.  The Restoration Fund currently
receives $40 million from contributions from Central Valley Project
beneficiaries - irrigators and power.  Irrigators are attempting to find
ways to reduce their contributions, but that remains to be seen.  That
attempt has no current effect upon contributions to Miller/Bradley
Restoration Fund. 

 

Many believe that this effort to achieve inclusion of its desired, but
worthless modifications to proposed San Joaquin legislation puts in grave
danger the possibility of passage of both the proposed San Joaquin
restoration and Trinity restoration legislation. 

 

 

Byron Leydecker

Friends of Trinity River, Chair

California Trout, Inc., Advisor

PO Box 2327

Mill Valley, CA 94942-2327

415 383 4810 

415 519 4810 cell

bwl3 at comcast.net

bleydecker at stanfordalumni.org

http://www.fotr.org

http://www.caltrout.org

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