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CSPA Intervenes in Butte Creek FERC Proceeding

by Chris Shutes
June 16, 2008. CSPA, along with Friends of Butte Creek, Friends of the River, and other fishing and environmental groups, formally intervened June 16 in the FERC relicensing proceeding for PG&E's DeSabla - Centerville Project on Butte Creek and the West Branch Feather River. Intervention provides legal standing in the process for CSPA and the other groups.
 
Project-affected reaches of Butte Creek provide the habitat for well over half of the remaining Central Valley Spring-run Chinook salmon. Butte Creek is also important habitat for Central Valley steelhead. CSPA and other groups will be making recommedations before June 30 for the future operation of the project. Our major interest in the project is given in the Motion To Intervene.

The motion states in part, "Project operations going forward under new license conditions as proposed by Licensee will fail to optimize anadromous fishery resources, water quality and quantity, and could cause serious adverse effects, in the form of widespread pre-spawn mortality, to sensitive populations of federally listed salmon and steelhead."
(Read the Motion to Intervene)