WSPC01926

• File Number: 8220.106.O
• Description: Colorado River Water Projects - Animas La Plata - Project Funding
• State: CO
• Basin: Colorado Mainstem
• Water Division: 5
• Date: 3/24/2004
• Author: Various
• Title: Animas La Plata Project Funding - Testimony - US Senate Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development - ALP Project - 03-24-04
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

u.s. f'o"lartment of the Interior - Bennett Raley Biography

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Bennett W. Raley - Biography

Mr. Raley was confinned by the U.S. Senate and sworn in as the
Assistant Secretary for Water and Science, Department of the
Interior, on July 17, 2001 by The Secretary of the Interior Gale
Norton. He is responsible for setting departmental policy and
providing oversight to the Bureau of Reclamation and the Geological
Survey.

From 1983 to 1991, Mr. Raley was an associate, and later a partner,
with the law finn of Davis, Graham & Stubbs in Denver, Colorado.
He then served as Staff Counsel to United States Senator Hank
Brown (R.CO) during the 102nd Congress. Upon his return to
Colorado, he practiced law at Hobbs, Trout & Raley. He also served
as Chief Counsel to the United States Judiciary Subcommittee on
the Constitution, Federalism, and Property Rights for the first 100
days of the 104'h Congress, as a Special Assistant Attorney General
for the State of New Mexico in federal court litigation, and as Co.
Chair of the Federal Water Rights Task Force established pursuant to the 1996 Fann Bill.

Mr. Raley received his B.S. in Agricultural Business from Coiorado State University and his J.D. from the
University of Colorado School of Law.

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