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CSPA NewsCSPA's John Beuttler to testify at Senate NR&W Committee hearing on AB 1806June 15, 2008. John Beuttler, CSPA's Conservation Director will head up a veteran group of fisheries organizations testifying before the Senate Natural Resources and Water Committee hearing for AB 1806 on June 24th. In addition to Beuttler, Dick Pool will speak, representing Water 4 Fish, John Ryzanych will testify for Allied Fishing Groups and Gary Adams will speak for the California Striped Bass Association. AB1806 is important for two reasons, it addresses the issue of dealing with fishery disaster rescues and even more important, the bill provides full mitigation for the federal and state water projects pumping of massive amounts of water south. Opposition to the bill's passage is anticipated from the various water agencies that would be forced to pay their fair share for losses suffered at the hands of the pumps and for the losses to fish populations by the diversion of massive amounts of delta water. agencies have had to pay very little in the past for the consequences of the massive increases in delta exports over the past five years. CSPA has called for a major effort to support this bill in the form of a letter writing campaign. In CSPA Advisory 6-4-08, sample letters were provided along with the addresses, fax numbers and e-mail addresses of all of the senators on the committee. In addition to the letter campaign, CSPA has asked those supportive of the bill to attend the hearing and speak during the time allowed for public comments. The hearing will take place on June 24th, 9:30am, Room 112 at the capitol.
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