You can have a 500-year flood every year in a row for 3 or 4 years. That does not mean they happen every 500 years. We had a 500-year flood. We had a 250-year flood a couple years before that in parts of the State. So, yes, I blame it on the Endangered Species Act. It does not allow flood control agencies to protect and maintain these levees without jumping through all the hoops that the gentlemen from California [Mr. Pombo] and [Mr. Herger] and others have described. It is absurd that we have to spend $10 million in mitigation on a project that costs $3 million to construct.
John Doolittle: “You can have a 500-year flood every year in a row for 3 or 4 years. That does not mean they happen every 500 years. We…”
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Discussing the impact of the Endangered Species Act on flood control efforts.
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