He was scheduled to meet Tuesday with farmers, Indian tribes, business people and representatives of state and federal agencies in preparation for requesting a federal drought declaration.
A 2001 drought forced authorities to shut off of water to most of the 1,300 farms on a 200,000-acre federal irrigation project straddling the Oregon-California border to leave water for fish.
Out of those confrontations came a landmark agreement on how to deal with competing water demands, but it is not yet approved or funded by Congress.
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