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Article: Memorandum on the Klamath River Basin Federal Working Group.(President George W. Bush)(Brief Article)
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- Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents
- Article date:
- March 4, 2002
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March 1, 2002
Memorandum for the Secretary of the Interior, the Secretary of Agriculture, the Secretary of Commerce, the Chairman of the Council on Environmental Quality
Subject: Klamath River Basin Federal Working Group
The 2001 drought in the Klamath River Basin in Oregon and California, along with Federal legal requirements regarding water use, resulted in a scarcity of water available both for agricultural use and for maintenance of water levels necessary to sustain threatened and endangered fish populations in the Klamath River Basin. Last year, the reduction in water available for irrigation caused severe economic consequences in the ...