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Speakers urge SFPUC to oppose congressional amendment that would curb fisheries role in Tuolumne River relicensing
Summary
Conservation and fishing groups told the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission on May 22 that an appropriations amendment associated with Rep. Valadao would bar the National Marine Fisheries Service from participating in relicensing for the Don Pedro and La Grange projects and asked the commission to agendize and draft a resolution opposing it.
Several conservation and fishing-industry speakers used the SFPUC public-comment period on May 22 to ask the commission to weigh in against a congressional appropriations amendment associated with Rep. Valadao that they said would remove the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) from participation in Federal Energy Regulatory Commission relicensing of the Don Pedro and La Grange hydroelectric projects on the Tuolumne River.
Chris Shoots of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance told…
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