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The Navajo Nation hereby declares that the United States’ contractual interest, held by the Salt River Project for the Bureau of Reclamation, to the power generated by 24.3 percent of the Navajo Generating Station’s capacity is in direct conflict with the federal government’s trust responsibilities and duties to the Navajo Nation and the Navajo people.
We consider the salmon produced by hatcheries to be an important part of the future fish in the ocean needed to keep the commercial and recreational salmon industries alive ... We’re calling on the federal Bureau of Reclamation to release a short-term pulse of water from Lake Shasta to help the baby salmon safely navigate downriver and out to the ocean.
American Rivers and its partners urge Congress to immediately follow the Bureau of Reclamation's recent study with bold action and funding to build a future that includes healthy rivers, state-of-the-art water conservation for cities and agriculture, and water-sharing mechanisms that allow communities to adapt to warmer temperatures and more erratic precipitationMore quotes »
Around the web
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Reclamation, Partners Will Study Water Supplies in Five Western River Basins
water and to develop collaborative solutions that will sustain communities and support healthy rivers long into the future. Bureau of Reclamation Commissioner Michael L. Connor announced $2.1 million will be made available under the WaterSMART Basin Study from Emediawire.com Read more »
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Ark Valley dealt winning hand by Reclamation
an additional $4 million in federal funds this year thanks to reallocation of unused or leftover funds within the Bureau of Reclamation. “It will allow us to start working on engineering and the drafting of a design,” said Jim Broderick, executive director from Pueblo Chieftain Read more »
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H.R. 678, Bureau of Reclamation Small Conduit Hydropower Development and Rural Jobs Act
would increase federal offsetting receipts by about $1 million over the 2014-2023 period because it would authorize the Bureau of Reclamation to permit private entities to develop hydropower at certain facilities owned by the bureau. Pay-as-you-go procedures from U.S. Congressional Budget Office Read more »
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Taste of the Valley: Memorial Day food truck frenzy
in compression-only CPR at six locations in Napa County on Wednesday. Just in time for Memorial Day weekend, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced a deal Monday for the operator of the Pleasure Cove Marina to … In October 2011, we cheered St. John the Baptist from Napa Valley Register Read more »
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Our View Hi-Line darts and laurels
— U.S. Rep. Steve Daines has a good idea that is worth looking into. He would let the Bureau of Reclamation allow hydropower dams be built on streams canals and ditches. That would provide jobs and create cheap, renewable energy for Montana. Dart — We have from Havre Daily News Read more »
