06/23/2011
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"You know, the Chairman made a good observation about the Bureau is the largest wholesaler of water in the entire country, 31 million acre-feet on the average, I believe, and I think you ought to be ma..."
"But I think when we have other areas that have 100 percent in the area, that we could get up to 60 or 70 percent, but we are going to have to cut back in April and May, as you know."
"And that flexibility that you are demonstrating is not being demonstrated, in my view, by the Department of Commerce under NOAA even though we have these above average rainfall and snow pack on the Si..."
"And that will be a reduction of 200,000 acre-feet of water, I believe."