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On the Public Record blog shares some thoughts on Interior’s very well done Interim Plan for California water

Posted by: Maven on December 24, 2009 at 7:41 am

OK, show of hands here. How many of you actually read all 23 pages of the Department of the Interior’s plan for California? Yeah, thought so… Well, the On the Public Record blog did read it from start to finish, and shares some thoughts:

“The Dept of Interior just released a 23 page plan for getting back involved in CA water after eight years of Bush administration neglect*. I am very impressed with the document as a whole. It is well written. Everything it says is well connected to the situation as I understand it; I didn’t spot any outsider’s mistakes or cliches. It did something fairly difficult, which is list a well-specified set of actions Interior intends to take that will concretely address the problems in the Delta. It is hard to do that, so more power to the incisive person or group who wrote this piece. I don’t remember any waffle-y bullshit about “considering possibly funding additional research to study writing a plan.” On the whole, big ups to the authors of Interior’s Interim Federal Action Plan for the California Bay-Delta.

Against the background of my approval, some thoughts:

1. Heh. The plan slams the Bush Administration about as hard as a bureaucratic document can. It talks about “mov[ing] California water issues from the back burner to the forefront of Federal attention during 2009″ and “[a]fter several years of being on the sidelines, the Administration” (Pg. 3, paragraph 3). It also talks about a dedication to science-based decisions, which get its own heading on page 4. You know, you don’t have affirm that you make decisions based on science unless your predecessors just spent years and years making decisions on something else. That’s all slight, though; I mention it only because it made me laugh. … “

Read more from the On the Public Record blog by clicking here.

In addition, OTPR shares some thoughts on the upcoming 60 minutes show here, and also some thoughts on other items in the water news here.

December 24, 2009 · Filed Under Delta Issues

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