to attain this mitigation level. 

 In addition, we have some long-term 

 goals of trying to reach what is 

 called "recent historical levels." 

 These provide a much higher pro- 

 tection and include some major en- 

 hancement. We feel this can only 

 be achieved with the removal of the 

 exports out of the southern portion 

 of the delta where they are current- 

 ly damaging the estuary. There are 

 current proposals to do that. 



In summary, I would like to 

 emphasize that we all know that 

 estuaries have very difficult prob- 

 lems that are hard to solve. They 

 must be solved by taking the prob- 

 lems apart, developing goals on 

 which to base standards, and having 

 the technical information available 

 to back up those goals. The pro- 

 gram must then be developed to 

 attain a suitable solution. The 

 other key ingredient is to have an 

 agency with the authority that can 



implement the standards. The agency 

 must actually implement the program. 

 Decisionmakers need the scientific 

 information that we will be talking 

 about here, but it is fairly worth- 

 less if we do not have the guidance 

 in terms of what the public interest 

 is. In closing, I would like to 

 say that in the developing centers 

 of California we realized at the 

 outset that we could not make every- 

 body happy. We have 14 lawsuits 

 being sued by in-basin users, by 

 exporters, and by people within the 

 delta. We actually welcome these 

 suits because we are developing 

 new ground here; and we hope that 

 these lawsuits will help resolve 

 the long standing legal principles 

 and questions of authority that 

 have plagued us in the past. We 

 were not successful in making every- 

 body happy, however, we were suc- 

 cessful in our secondary goal, and 

 that was to make everybody equally 

 unhappy. 



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