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Mr. Farr. I am in agreement with that statement, and I would 

 just caution the committee members that are not from California 

 that there are other vested interests that are going to be here 

 today. We have people— Jeff Kerry is on the panel too from the 

 Grasslands Water District which is in the Central Valley. They are 

 very concerned about the way the legislation is being implemented; 

 Roger Thomas from the Golden Gate Fishermen's Association. 



You know, we are having a record year of salmon fishing in Cali- 

 fornia. I mean, it is absolutely phenomenal. Fish are literally jump- 

 ing on the boats, and a lot of the credit to that is the way our fish 

 management practices have been handled in California. So water 

 is very important to all of these economic interests. 



This bill is very important. It is important to me because we re- 

 ceive in one of my districts in one of my counties a small portion, 

 only 19,000 acre feet, but that is not a major vested interest com- 

 pared to the rest of the people on this panel, but we do receive 

 some water. So I am looking forward, Mr. Chairman, to working 

 on trying to find a solution that will be a win-win for everyone. 



Mr. l3oOLiTTLE. Thank you. Mr. Radanovich has asked to be rec- 

 ognized now that Senator Bradley is back. And before the Chair 

 recognizes him, I just want to point out that to the extent possible 

 we ought to expedite these questions because we have got three 

 panels with 10 witnesses, and we haven't gotten to them yet. So 

 there is going to be plenty of time to get into the nitty-gritty of this 

 with that, however, and any member who wants to still ask ques- 

 tions — I will get Mr. Dooley on the list, OK— may do so now. Mr. 

 Radanovich is recognized. 



Mr. Radanovich. Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and welcome, Sen- 

 ator Bradley, as well Mr. Merger and Mr. Fazio. I do want to say 

 in part that I think I have to thank the 1992 piece of legislation, 

 the CVPIA, because that is in part why I am here today. It was 

 passed over the objections of my predecessor and affected him dear- 

 ly in his reelection bid. 



And the only reason why I want to bring this up is because, 

 again, acknowledging Mr. Fazio and Mr. Herger, Mr. Dooley, Mr. 

 Doolittle — those are the people — Mr. Pombo — those that live in the 

 district where the CVP is. I believe the main flaw in CVPIA has 

 been its failure to acknowledge the fact that it was a piece of legis- 

 lation, in my view, that was foisted from the outside over the objec- 

 tion of the people that used it. 



And what I would like to see in this process is along with making 

 the state water project an environmentally responsible project, 

 making sure that there is water allocated to the environment, not 

 at the expense of the security of agriculture in the State of Califor- 

 nia. That is all that anybody who is representing the reforms in the 

 CVPIA are after is the ability to have some security in the interest 

 in the San Joaquin Valley. 



And, Senator, you made a couple of statements or one statement 

 about making sure that we have patience and cooperation during 

 this process. And in that vein, I would like to invite you to come 

 and talk to the people that I represent that live and breathe water 

 in the San Joaquin Valley who need to use the water in order to 

 survive and discuss issues Uke the 800,000 acre foot allocation and 

 this study on the San Joaquin River. Because I think, unfortu- 



