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Interior’s Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation) dams and diverts water out of the Trinity River basin to contractors’ land 400 miles from the Hupa people’s homeland.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The lawsuit claims the Reclamation’s contracts violate provisions of the Central Valley Project Improvement Act (CVPIA) and other laws and that they will irreparably harm efforts to protect Trinity River Salmon. Tribal Chairman Byron Nelson, Jr., explained why the Tribe filed the lawsuit :</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;">“The Hupa people have a long history of fighting to protect the Trinity River, its resources and especially our salmon. Our people depend on Trinity River salmon now as we have for countless generations. These contracts evade the federal government’s responsibility to maintain Trinity River fishery resources that the United States holds in trust for our Tribe. Salmon runs are not just important for our Tribe, but also for other Native peoples of the Klamath-Trinity Basin and non-tribal fisheries .”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Enacted by Congress in 1992, the CVPIA specifies that the price of Trinity River water developed by the federal government’s Central Valley Project (“CVP”) includes the cost of repairing environmental damage to fish habit downstream of the Trinity River Dam and restoring naturally produced fish populations to pre-dam levels.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Further, the Trinity River Hatchery replaces fish production that was lost from the 109 miles of anadromous fish habitat that were blocked to salmon migration when Trinity Dam was constructed in 1964. The CVPIA makes CVP contractors responsible for hatchery costs as well.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The Tribe’s lawsuit claims the new permanent water delivery contracts must bind contractors to recognize all fishery restoration, preservation, and propagation measures required by existing law, including the CVPIA, and pay their costs. Reclamation’s unlawful failure to include those contract terms directly impairs the Tribe’s interests in Trinity River fish and water resources that support the Tribe’s federally reserved rights.</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;">Tribal Attorney Thomas Schlosser also commented on the lawsuit’s filing:</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;">“The law is clear; no Trinity water can be sent to the Central Valley at the expense of the Tribe’s fishery. Decades of mismanagement and misdealing have devastated the fishery and enriched water contractors in the process.”</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;">The Tribe’s Fisheries Director Michael Orcutt added:</p><p style="margin: 0px 0px 10px;">“To have healthy salmon fisheries we need healthy rivers. In the case of the Trinity River, the United States Congress promised the Hupa people that decades of CVP mismanagement would be replaced by fishery and river restoration whose costs would be paid by the contractors. We intend to enforce that promise.”</p><div>Read or download a copy of the Hoopa Valley Tribe’s <em>Complaint for Declaratory and Injunctive Relief</em> <a href="http://www.schlosserlawfiles.com/~hoopa/Complaint_Final_01.pdf" style="background-color: transparent; color: rgb(153, 107, 61) !important;" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">at this link</a>.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>