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CSPA, Coalition Submits Multiple Comments on Stewardship Council’s Revision of the Delta Plan
The Delta Stewardship Council is in the process of revising the Delta Plan and related environmental documents following the successful litigation by CSPA and others in vacating the previous Plan. Unfortunately, the Council is again ignoring the strict requirements for a Delta Plan mandated by the State Legislature in the 2009 Delta Reform Act. For…
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CSPA Joins With Others in Protesting Westland’s Lobbyist Appointment as Deputy Secretary of Interior
The Trump Administration has appointed David Bernhardt as Deputy Secretary of the Department of Interior. Mr. Bernhardt was a former Interior Solicitor and has been a lobbyist for Westlands Water District. He is a registered lobbyist for Westlands and a partner in the Washington law firm of Brownstein-Bernhardt, which received more than 1.7 million dollars…
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CSPA Talks Hydropower Relicensing at Water Agency Conference
Chris Shutes, CSPA’s hydropower advocate, gave a presentation about hydropower relicensing at the conference of the Association of California Water Agencies on May 10, 2017, in Monterey. He appeared as part of a panel that included the relicensing leads for a water agency and an irrigation district, as well as a hydropower relicensing manager from…
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CSPA, FOR and Others Request Release of Information and Public Involvement at Oroville
CSPA joined Friends of the River and three other groups in an April 19, 2017 clarification and public process request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) concerning repairs of the damaged spillway works at Oroville Reservoir. The letter asks FERC to release as much information to the public about damage, plans and repairs as…
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CSPA Submits Comments on Amendments to Central Valley Water Quality Control Plan
On 14 April 2017, the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance (CSPA) submitted extensive comments on proposed amendments to the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board’s (Regional Board) Water Quality Control Plan for the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys (Basin Plan). The proposed amendments address salinity limits in the San Joaquin River upstream of Vernalis. CSPA…