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<p>On October 31, the Hoopa Valley Tribe renewed a 2020 lawsuit it had
filed against the Trump Administration for financial misconduct,
environmental depredation, and violation of tribal sovereignty and
fishing rights in California’s Trinity River fishery, according to a
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<p>“For more than a year, the Tribe made repeated attempts to have the
Biden Administration hold the Bureau of Reclamation accountable for
illegally waiving at least $400 million owed to the Treasury by
contractors who use water and power from Reclamation’s massive Central
Valley Project in California, and falsely claiming that federal programs
to restore environmental damage caused by industrial farming
operations and other actions were both complete and successful,” the
Tribe stated.</p>
<p><span><span>The Tribe’s 60-page complaint, supported by hundreds of pages of exhibits, is at this link</span><span>: </span></span><a href="https://bit.ly/AmComplaintHoopa" title="" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" class="enhancr_card_7420898584">bit.ly/...</a></p><div><br></div><div id="ydp4385ae20enhancr_card_7420898584" class="ydp4385ae20yahoo-link-enhancr-card ydp4385ae20ymail-preserve-class ydp4385ae20ymail-preserve-style" style="max-width:400px;font-family:YahooSans, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif" data-url="https://bit.ly/AmComplaintHoopa" data-type="YENHANCER" data-size="MEDIUM" contenteditable="false"><a href="https://bit.ly/AmComplaintHoopa" style="text-decoration-line: none !important; text-decoration-style: solid !important; text-decoration-color: currentcolor !important; color: rgb(0, 0, 0) !important;" class="ydp4385ae20yahoo-enhancr-cardlink" rel="nofollow" target="_blank"><table class="ydp4385ae20card-wrapper ydp4385ae20yahoo-ignore-table" style="max-width:400px" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td width="400"><table class="ydp4385ae20card ydp4385ae20yahoo-ignore-table" style="max-width:400px;border-width:1px;border-style:solid;border-color:rgb(224, 228, 233);border-radius:2px" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="ydp4385ae20card-primary-image-cell" style="background-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); background-repeat: no-repeat; background-size: cover; position: relative; border-radius: 2px 2px 0px 0px; min-height: 175px;" valign="top" height="175" bgcolor="#000000" background="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/jY0xueAbFBNw8IUDtJz.uw--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/GDJtwnzpfvFjYJJ3UB6GB2b_5X9JhJy81RRJ311xwN_6364RE3OXclZP8D6S1mepqh8=w1200-h630-p.cf.jpg"><!--[if gte mso 9]><v:rect fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:396px;height:175px;position:absolute;top:0;left:0;"><v:fill type="frame" color="#000000" src="https://s.yimg.com/lo/api/res/1.2/jY0xueAbFBNw8IUDtJz.uw--~A/Zmk9ZmlsbDt3PTQwMDtoPTIwMDthcHBpZD1pZXh0cmFjdA--/https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/GDJtwnzpfvFjYJJ3UB6GB2b_5X9JhJy81RRJ311xwN_6364RE3OXclZP8D6S1mepqh8=w1200-h630-p.cf.jpg"/></v:rect><![endif]--><table class="ydp4385ae20card-overlay-container-table ydp4385ae20yahoo-ignore-table" style="width:100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="ydp4385ae20card-overlay-cell" style="background-color: transparent; border-radius: 2px 2px 0px 0px; min-height: 175px;" valign="top" bgcolor="transparent" background="https://s.yimg.com/cv/ae/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV21/1/enhancr_gradient-400x175.png"><!--[if gte mso 9]><v:rect fill="true" stroke="false" style="width:396px;height:175px;position:absolute;top:-18px;left:0;"><v:fill type="pattern" color="#000000" src="https://s.yimg.com/cv/ae/nq/storm/assets/enhancrV21/1/enhancr_gradient-400x175.png"/><v:textbox inset="0,0,20px,0"><![endif]--><table class="ydp4385ae20yahoo-ignore-table" style="width: 100%; min-height: 175px;" height="175" border="0"><tbody><tr><td class="ydp4385ae20card-richInfo2" style="text-align:left;padding:15px 0 0 15px;vertical-align:top"></td><td class="ydp4385ae20card-actions" style="text-align:right;padding:15px 15px 0 0;vertical-align:top"><div class="ydp4385ae20card-share-container"></div></td></tr></tbody></table><!--[if gte mso 9]></v:textbox></v:rect><![endif]--></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td><table class="ydp4385ae20card-info ydp4385ae20yahoo-ignore-table" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); background-repeat: repeat; background-attachment: scroll; background-image: none; background-size: auto; position: relative; z-index: 2; width: 100%; max-width: 400px; border-radius: 0px 0px 2px 2px; border-top: 1px solid rgb(224, 228, 233);" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" align="center"><tbody><tr><td style="background-color:#ffffff;padding:16px 0 16px 12px;vertical-align:top;border-radius:0 0 0 2px"><img class="ydp4385ae20card-object-1 ydp4385ae20yahoo-ignore-inline-image ydp4385ae20ymail-preserve-class" src="https://s.yimg.com/lb/brands/80x80_google.png" style="min-width:36px;margin-top:3px" height="36"></td><td style="vertical-align:middle;padding:12px 24px 16px 12px;width:99%;font-family:YahooSans, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;border-radius:0 0 2px 0"><h2 class="ydp4385ae20card-title" style="font-size: 14px; line-height: 19px; margin: 0px 0px 6px; font-family: YahooSans, Helvetica Neue, Segoe UI, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(29, 34, 40); max-width: 314px;">ECF 97 HVT Amended Complaint.pdf</h2><p class="ydp4385ae20card-description" style="font-size: 12px; line-height: 16px; margin: 0px; color: rgb(151, 158, 168);"></p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table></a></div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
<p>“Wiping out the debt and declaring `Mission Accomplished’ for
environmental restoration meant that Reclamation could close the books
on continuing payments owed by contractors for environmental
restoration not only of the Trinity River but also throughout Central
California,” said Michael Orcutt, Hoopa Fisheries Director. “In reality
those actions devastate our Tribe.”</p>
<p>“In 2004, the Federal 9th Circuit Court of Appeals wrote that
restoration of the Trinity River is `unlawfully long overdue,’” said
Tribal Chairman Joe Davis. “Because of Reclamation’s conduct, that is
still the case. Our fishery is by no means restored; today, federal
regulators limit our harvest to a few hundred fish for our many
thousands of tribal members. We return to court knowing that our tribal
existence is at stake.”</p>
<p>Vice Chairman Colegrove added, “Since time immemorial, the Trinity
fishery nourished us not only physically but spiritually. The river is
the basis for our culture, religion and economy. Our ancestors saw what
the near extinction of the buffalo did to Indian tribes on the Great
Plains. We know that the loss of our salmon would be just as
catastrophic for the Hupa people.” </p>
<p>“These truths about our fishery are known to all in authority in the
federal and state governments”, said Council Member Jill Sherman.
“Leaders of Congress, Presidents, cabinet officials, and judges have
confirmed our rights to protection from Reclamation dams and irrigation
projects. We live by the law, and we expect our leaders in Washington,
D.C. to do the same.” </p>
<p>“That knowledge is our power. We will use that power because we have
no place else to go except to the Federal Court system,” said Chairman
Davis. </p>
<p>Council Member Darcy Miller said, “We continue to have high hopes for
Secretary Haaland because she knows the lives of Native people”.</p>
<p>“But Reclamation has hijacked her policies and with it our fishery
and our sovereignty,” said Council Member Sherman-Warne. “So we will
use the courts to fight for our homeland and our fishery until the
end.” </p>
<p><em>Background from the Tribe: </em></p>
<p>At stake in the dispute are the Tribe’s homeland and fishery on the
Trinity River in California’s Klamath River Basin, where the Tribe has
lived since time immemorial.</p>
<p>In the 1950s, accompanied by promises to protect the Trinity River,
the federal government dammed the Trinity River, destroyed vast
stretches of salmon habitat, decimated salmon populations, and diverted
water to industrial agricultural corporations in California’s Central
Valley 400 miles from Hoopa </p>
<p>The dams on the Trinity River generate electricity and irrigate arid
lands in the Central Valley, including the Westlands Water District, a
sprawling desert the size of Rhode Island. The District includes land
that the Bureau of Reclamation and the State of California have known
for more than a half century could not be practicably irrigated because
it has no surface water and poorly drained soils with high
concentrations of naturally occurring toxins. </p>
<p>In the decades since, use of Trinity water to irrigate Westlands and
elsewhere in the Central Valley has leached toxins, poisoned land,
polluted water and genetically deformed Pacific Flyway wildfowl.
Meanwhile, Reclamation’s Central Valley Project contractors have reaped
billions from federal subsidies and profiteering associated with the
Trinity’s irrigation and power development. </p>
<p>By 1992, galvanized by the shocking environmental destruction and
urged by numerous interests seeking environmental justice and fiscal
responsibility, including Hoopa, Congress passed and President George
H. W. Bush signed the Central Valley Project Improvement Act. Over the
objections of Project contractors, Congress made environmental
restoration a formal purpose of the Project, on a par with water
development. It specified environmental restoration activities and made
the Project contractors pay for them as a cost of doing business.</p>
<p>The CVPIA imposed an explicit trust responsibility on the Bureau of
Reclamation for restoration of Hoopa’s fishery resources. The CVPIA
also required revision of all Project contracts to reflect this change
in the law. For decades, Westlands and other contractors waged a
prolonged, but for the most part losing, war against the CVPIA,
including against the restoration of Hoopa’s Trinity River fishery. </p>
<p>This is where the Trump Administration comes in. Of all the
candidates President Trump could have chosen to be Secretary of the
Interior, he selected Westlands’ long-time attorney, David Bernhardt. In
his tenure, Secretary Bernhardt did three things.</p>
<p>First, he instructed the Bureau of Reclamation to engage in
fraudulent federal cost accounting that, if unchecked by the Biden
Administration, will—by the contractors’ own admission—wipe out more
than $400 million in environmental restoration and other Project cost
obligations that they owe to the Federal Treasury. That money would be
vital to the President’s infrastructure plan. Hoopa documented that
fraud and submitted its evidence to the Department, the Office of
Management and Budget, and Congress in the past two months. </p>
<p>Second, perhaps concerned that he might need a hedge against the
potential failure of his accounting scheme, Secretary Bernhardt ordered
a set of memoranda from the Bureau of Reclamation, the Fish and
Wildlife Service, and the Solicitor’s Office to conclude, against all
facts and law, that the CVPIA’s environmental restoration, including
Trinity River fishery restoration, was complete so that certain
restoration costs to the contractors could be reduced further.
Secretary Bernhardt signed off on that conclusion on January 19, 2021. </p>
<p>Third, Secretary Bernhardt ordered the approval of new water
contracts for Westlands and others that violated numerous cost and
environmental protection provisions established in the CVPIA and other
federal law, including essential protections for Hoopa’s fishery.</p>
<p>After Hoopa sued the Trump Administration about these issues in 2020,
the United States District Court for the Eastern District of
California asked the Biden Administration whether it wanted to remain
Hoopa’s adversary in this case. The Administration had to make up its
mind by May 12, 2021. The government rejected the court’s invitation to
change position and stand with its trust beneficiary against the
predatory CVP contractors. </p>
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<div>The case is: Hoopa Valley Tribe v. Bureau of Reclamation, Case No.
1:20-cv-01814-JLT-EPG (United States District Court, Eastern District
of Calif. Filed August 13, 2020).</div>
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