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CSPA Added to Steering Committee of National Hydropower Reform Coalition

by Chris Shutes, FERC Projects Director
February 7, 2009 -- The national Hydropower Reform Coalition has added CSPA as a member of its steering committee. CSPA’s FERC Projects Director Chris Shutes participated in his first national HRC steering committee meeting on February 5. At the conclusion of that meeting, the committee, which deals largely with federal energy policy as it relates to hydropower, voted CSPA in, following the recommendation of California Hydropower Reform Coalition Director Keith Nakatani.

CSPA is a founding member of the California Hydropower Reform Coalition. Both Shutes and CSPA’s Conservation Director John Beuttler sit on the CHRC steering committee. Both are also regular participants in calls with HRC counsel to discuss legal and policy issues on both a state and national level.

CSPA is involved on some level in a dozen FERC processes, including the relicensing of hydropower projects and implementation of project licenses once they are issued. Projects currently receiving the most attention from CSPA are the relicensing of the DeSabla – Centerville Project on Butte Creek, and the coordinated relicensing of Yuba-Bear and Drum-Spaulding projects, which have facilities on the Middle Yuba, South Yuba, Bear River, and West Placer creeks.

For more information on CSPA’s activities related to hydropower, see “The FERC Files”, and “CSPA and FERC,” on CSPA’s website, www.calsport.org.