March 27, 2023
By:
Walter G. Wright
Category:
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
Arkansas Environmental, Energy, and Water Law
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Benefits and Access: The Necessity for Multiple Use of Water Resources: U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Natural Resources Hearing
The Water, Wildlife and Fisheries Subcommittee on the United States House of Representatives Natural Resources Committee (“Subcommittee”) held a March 8th hearing titled:
Benefits and Access: The Necessity for Multiple Use of Water Resources (“Hearing”)
Congressman Bruce Westerman from the Fourth District of Arkansas chairs the full Committee.
The Subcommittee’s Chairman (Cliff Bentz of Oregon) described the Hearing as:
. . . an oversight hearing on the necessity of multiple uses of American water resources.
Issues that the Subcommittee Chairman identified include:
- Failure to identify and address barriers to water storage
- Diverting water from farmers without measurable benefit to fish
- The selection of critically correct rather than biologically appropriate science
- Failure to incorporate peer review private data regarding fish populations into agency analysis
The witnesses included:
Executive Director
Northwest Public Power Association
Vancouver, WA
Southeast Fisheries Policy Director
American Sportfishing Association
Tallahassee, FL
Executive Director
Family Farm Alliance
Klamath Falls, OR
Legal Counsel
Yorok Tribe
Klamath, CA
Co-Founder
Ridges to Riffles Indigenous Conservation Group
Sacramento, CA
Links to the witnesses' prepared statement can be found above.
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