[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 161 (2015), Part 1]
[House]
[Page 1353]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           RAISING SHASTA DAM

  (Mr. LaMALFA asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. LaMALFA. Mr. Speaker, yesterday U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service 
brought up a possible concern on salmon habitat on a water storage 
project in California. This would be above Shasta Dam. There is a 
proposal to possibly raise the dam.
  But what really gets me is that the concern more is about a fictional 
problem with salmon habitat that really doesn't exist above a possible 
raise of the dam, and not much more attention focused on what the 
effects would be on the people that live around the lake and the need 
they would have for infrastructure, their resorts, marinas, the things 
that they do there.
  So it is really disconcerting that U.S. Fish & Wildlife is creating a 
fictional problem on an environmental side and not looking at the human 
impact of what a possible raise--it may be a good thing; it may be not 
a good thing--the raise of Shasta Dam could be. I implore them to take 
a look at what the needs are of the people around that lake.

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