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be particularly devastating given proposed amendments to the 

 environmental water dedicated by other sections of the Act. 



• State that merely by "pursuing" restoration actions, the Secretary shall 

 be deemed to have satisfied the CVP's environmental obligations. The 

 CVP would thus be required to meet contractors' needs and merely to 

 pursue restoration, with no requirement to achieve actual results. 



In our view, HR 1906 is nothing more than a cynical attempt by a 

 greedy minority of CVP water users to intentionally sacrifice the 

 equitable reforms of the CVPIA that require the protection and restoration 

 of public trust salmon and steelhead fishery resources of the Trinity, 

 Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers in order to profit from regaining 

 control of the CVP's water. We want to be perfectly clear: a consequence 

 of this environmental mugging will be the perpetuation of the economic 

 hardship visited upon our county by the devastating declines CVP affected 

 fish stocks have experienced over the last three decades-this is a totally 

 unacceptable price you expect our county to bear. As you can surmise, we 

 are strongly opposed to passage of HR 1906 and will urge our 

 congressional representatives to oppose it. 



Sincerely, 



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STAN DIXON, C/iair 



Board of Supervisors 



cc: Congressman Frank Riggs 

 Senator Diane Feinstein 

 Senator Barbara Boxer 



