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<br />c~ <br />I:.C <br />C"J <br />C"": <br /> <br /> <br />>~ <br />/ ,;:,.-:\. <br />~:;;.' 'J <br />:<" <br /> <br />e <br />. <br /> <br />'G!' <br />. . \r. <br />A! ~~_ <br />~~:)i~~~L <br /> <br /> <br />~ <br /> <br />NEWS RELEASE: Sept. 19, 1985, 2:30 PM, Phoenix <br /> <br />CONSERV ATION COALITION CHALLENGES CLIFF DAM <br /> <br />At a news conference today at the Phoenix Press Club Maricopa <br />Audubon Society President Herb Fibel announced that a coalition of local and <br />national conservation organizations has filed suit in U.S. District Court in <br />Phoenix against Cliff Dam and Plan 6. He stated, "The selection of the <br />environmentally destructive Cliff Dam, as a part of the regulatory storage <br />division of the Central Arizona Project (CAP), was not in conformance with <br />the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)." <br />The coalition of plaintiffs in the litigation, with a combined <br />membership in excess of 5,000,000, includes: Maricopa Audubon Society, <br />National Wildlife Federation, National Audubon Society, Sierra Club, Arizona <br />Wildlife Federation, Prescott Audubon Society, Environmental Policy Institute, <br />Friends of the River, American Rivers Conservation Council, National Parks <br />and Conservation Association, Wilderness Society and the Friends of Earth. <br />"In the suit," Fibel stated, "the environmental groups contend that a <br />Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) was filed by the U.S. Bureau <br />of Reclamation which described four alternative candidate plans, each of <br />which included Cliff Dam. No alternative to Cliff Dam was included in the <br />DEIS. Prior to the issuance of the DEIS the Bureau of Reclamation was <br />aware of and had studied alternatives to Cliff Dam which could have been <br />included in the DEIS. But the government failed to include reasonable <br />alternatives to Cliff Dam in the DEIS." <br />Pat Willis, Vice President of the Arizona Wildlife Federation, stated <br />that the impact DC this dam to the small, isolated breeding population of the <br />world's only desert-nesting Bald Eagles would be disastrous. Willis used the <br />California Condor as an example of another beleaguered population of large <br />rap tors facing extinction despite intense "management" by state and federal <br />agencies. <br /> <br />(more) <br />