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C,1/26/01 18:25 FAX 303 445 6331 PLATTE RIVER EIS OFFICE 16003 <br />1/26/01 <br />To: Outreach Committee <br />From: Curt Brown, Manager, Platte River EIS Office <br />Mark Butler, FWS Platte River Coordinator <br />Subject: Press Release for the Channel Stability "White Paper" <br />The purpose of this email is to inform you of two actions we will be taking next week. <br />I. Next week, we will be sending out to the States and Governance Committee via express mail <br />the "white paper" that Reclamation has been preparing on the channel stability issues. This is <br />provided as-part of our obligation under Extension Milestone C -1, due January 31, 2001. Other <br />materials are also being provided to the states soon, particularly the "SED -VEG" computer <br />model and documentation. <br />to issues press release announcing the release of the white paper. Attached ( 41) is a <br />press release, provided to You for your information. <br />2. Recently, at the request of the Nebraska Governor's Advisory Committee on the Platte River <br />Cooperative Agreement, we provided that group with a briefing on the channel stability issues. <br />We did not provide information to the press. However, subsequently, some information from <br />that briefing was passed along in good faith at other meetings and was picked up by the press. <br />This partial information formed the basis a local newspaper article and editorial (attached) by the <br />Kearney Hub, which we feel did not represent the facts or the intent of our efforts. . <br />Therefore, we have prepared an "Op -Ed" piece to be published in the Kearney Hub, as a <br />clarification of the facts regarding the channel stability issue. Attached is a DRAFT of that piece <br />( #2), as well as a copy of the editorial, in case you have not seen it. <br />This action is not being released through the Outreach Committee because it would be <br />inappropriate to have this report represented as a product of the Governance Committee. Further, <br />we are responding to articles and editorials that have directly questioned the work of the <br />Department. Therefore, we believe it is appropriate for the Department to respond directly. <br />see any substantial err ese items spond to Curt Brown or Mark <br />at (303 ) 4-4-5--2T9-6 by 10 a.m. MST Tuesday, January 30. <br />N <br />