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BDOC Revived

Last year the governor's 18-member Bay-Delta Oversight Council spent six months reeling from the resignation of its environmental panelists, only to be hit with the dramatic December 15 Delta "fix" proposed by four federal agencies. But BDOC's Greg Zlotnick is now back on the meeting circuit, hoping to get the council restarted on its original goal of coming up with long-term solutions to all the problems of the Bay-Delta system.

BDOC environmental representatives, including the Sierra Club, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Mono Lake Foundation, walked away from the multi-interest council last year over the failure of the State Water Resources Control Board to act on Decision 1630. Executive Officer John Amodio says BDOC has no more control over the new federal Delta plan than it did D-1630, but hopes federal agencies and environmentalists will join in the council's search for long-term solutions.

The walk-out caused meetings to be canceled for six months. But two of the "environ-mental" seats have finally been refilled, and BDOC hopes to fill at least two more soon. "We couldn't wait anymore," says Zlotnick. "We were losing daylight so to speak."

The new environmental catches are Trout Unlimited's Gary Widman, a former Interior Department attorney, and Nat Bingham, a top official at the Pacific Coast Fisherman's Association. "It's not clear to me that these represent mainstream environmental organizations," says ex-council member David Fullerton of the Sierra Club. "They may be meeting, but there's no consensus that this is a process where solutions will be hammered out."

Contact: Greg Zlotnick (916)657-2666

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