Comment Letters
Comment letters submitted by the Chapter
Please note that the letters are listed in reverse order, with the most recent letter first.
CalNeva ESA Habitat Definition 2020.08.30 GRS_RGT – September 4, 2020. Letter from the Cal-Neva Chapter to the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service to concur that it is important to include a definition of habitat in the regulations for the Endangered Species Act (ESA), and to propose a definition for consideration.
20200222_AFS Letter_USFWS_2019 BO_CVP&SWP – February 22, 2020. Letter from the Cal-Neva Chapter to Paul Souza, Pacific Southwest Regional Director, United States Fish and Wildlife Service to oppose implementation of the 2019 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Biological Opinion on the Reinitiation of Consultation on the Coordinated Long-term Operation of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project.
20200222_ AFS Letter_NMFS_2019 BO_CVP&SWP – February 22, 2020. Letter from the Cal-Neva Chapter to Barry Thom, Regional Administrator for the West Coast Region, NOAA – National Marine Fisheries Service to oppose implementation of the 2019 National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) Biological Opinion on the Reinitiation of Consultation on the Coordinated Long-term Operation of the Central Valley Project and State Water Project.
Pebble Letter Final 101217 – October 12, 2017 Letter by the American Fisheries Society (AFS) to the EPA, objecting to the proposal to withdraw the EPA’s July 2014 Clean Water Act 404(c) Proposed Determination to restrict the use of certain waters as disposal sites for dredged or fill material associated with mining the Pebble deposit in Alaska’s Bristol Bay watershed. Letter signed onto by the Cal-Neva Chapter.
Interior Appropriations – opposing the rider on the appropriations bill – July 21, 2018 – (Letters sent to Senate Appropriations Committee, n=6)
Recovering America’s Wildlife Act – May 3, 2018 (Letters sent to all California Representatives, n=54)
Malibu Steelhead – 25 March 2017
2016 Bay Delta Plan Amendment and SED – 8 March 2017