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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;font-weight:bold'>Feds 'clarify' Trinity water request</span></font></b>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>By John Driscoll
The Times-Standard <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Sunday, April 17,
2005 - <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>The U.S. Bureau of
Reclamation and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service sought to clarify their
position on using <br>
<st1:place w:st="on">Trinity River</st1:place> restoration water for staving
off another Klamath fish kill in a letter to the restoration program <br>
director this week. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>Even as agencies
and stakeholders met to map out how restoration would proceed this year, the
Wednesday <br>
letter was sent insisting no decision had been made to use the Trinity water
for anything other than restoration. <br>
The federal agencies were only asking whether the Trinity Management Council
believes a minor reduction in <br>
Trinity releases in the spring is viable, and whether it's scientifically sound
to store it for release to the Klamath <br>
in the fall instead. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>In an April 11
letter, Reclamation Regional Director Kirk Rodgers and Fish and Wildlife
California-Nevada Office <br>
Manager Steve Thompson wrote Trinity Restoration Program Director Doug
Schleusner: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>"Given our
previously stated responsibilities and limited management flexibility, we would
like to consider <br>
options for reducing the potential for a serious die-off of adult salmon in the
<st1:PlaceName w:st="on">lower Klamath</st1:PlaceName> <st1:PlaceType w:st="on">River</st1:PlaceType>
by releasing an <br>
appropriate volume of water into the <st1:place w:st="on">Trinity River</st1:place>
at the most effective time in late summer or early fall. The <br>
volume of water will be considered part of the water year allocation specified
in the Dec. 19, 2000 Record of <br>
Decision." <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>They then asked
Schleusner to come to the management council meeting with flow schedule
recommendations <br>
and pros and cons of the approach. <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal style='mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto'><font
size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>But in Wednesday's
letter, Rodgers and Thompson wrote that they have "made no decision
regarding the <br>
scientific sufficiency of additional flows, nor have we made a determination as
to a particular source of water to <br>
support such flows or the legal sufficiency of utilizing a particular source."
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