George Miller: “If we want to scapegoat the Endangered Species Act, we can, but the mounting evidence is, in these floods, that the…”

“If we want to scapegoat the Endangered Species Act, we can, but the mounting evidence is, in these floods, that the Endangered Species Act was a nonfactor. In central California we had 10 times the amount of water come through the river channel than the levees were designed to hold. We had somewhere between 70 and 80,000 cubic feet per second in a channel that was designed for 8,000 cubic feet per second. Further north in the Yuba City area we had the failure of a levee. We had the failure of a levee in the area of where maintenance was talked about. But the fact of the matter is, over the last decade the Fish and Wildlife Service has signed off on a number of plans.”