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Give skewed regulations designed to gut the environment a fine-sounding 
name, like "Clear Skies Initiative"
Talk about "flawed science" underlying the consensus of scientists all 
over the world.
Hide the evidence as relates to which lobbyists wrote the Energy Bill in 
the White House---still unknown in spite of numerous court decisions to 
the contrary, to be appealed past the November election.
Or instruct the writers of a science-based report to rewrite it, 
changing its conclusion one hundred eighty degrees---kill all the damned 
salmon and give them no water to swim in---the Southern California 
inland desert wants their water..


AP News Saturday, October 2, 2004
        
Report: Feds Ordered Salmon Study Rewrite

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By Associated Press

October 2, 2004, 8:59 PM EDT

SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- Federal biologists evaluating the effects of 
shifting millions of gallons of water to Southern California from rivers 
in the north were ordered by their superiors to revise a conclusion that 
the plan would hurt endangered salmon, a newspaper reported Saturday.

At issue is a state-federal plan for the network of reservoirs and 
aqueducts that moves water to Southern California.

Biologists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration 
initially found that the water project would harm fish in many rivers in 
Northern California, including salmon in the American River. But NOAA 
administrators overruled the report's findings and supervised a 
rewriting of the analysis, according to documents obtained by The 
Sacramento Bee.

Some agency employees who asked not to be identified said some of the 
changes had no basis in science and will substantially weaken 
protections for endangered winter-run salmon, steelhead and other fish.

NOAA officials say the revisions were justified. Agency biologists made 
some errors and "unsubstantiated conclusions" in their original draft, 
said James Lecky, an agency administrator in Long Beach who ordered the 
revisions.

The project would pump more water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin 
Delta to Southern California.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service gave its blessing to the plan in 
August, but NOAA biologists reached a different conclusion. A draft 
report from NOAA said the plan "is likely to jeopardize the continued 
existence of Sacramento winter-run Chinook salmon and Central Valley 
steelhead," as well as spring-run salmon.

An updated version, dated Sept. 27, no longer concludes that winter-run 
salmon or other fish could face extinction by the extra water 
diversions. The revised report also softens wording for how dam 
operators could avoid future impacts on fish and no longer calls for a 
minimum flow standard for the American River, as the original draft did.