Dog days of August delay Klamath summit
Tam Moore
Capital Press Staff
Writer
August 18, 2006
Rep. Greg
Walden, R-Ore., may have gotten publicity in the West last month when he
called for a Cabinet-level summit on Klamath Basin issues, but he has had a
hard time getting attention in Washington, D.C.
Walden, citing a litany of unresolved issues in the 10 million-acre basin
shared by Oregon and California, asked the secretaries of Interior, Commerce
and Agriculture plus the chairman of the White House Council on Environmental
Quality to convene a meeting with the states and American Indian tribes to
plot future work.
"The indicators were have received have been very positive," said
Matt Daigle, Walden's press secretary.
The same week Walden sent his summit letter, he was invited to a White House
meeting with Jim Connaughton, chairman of the Council for Environmental
Quality. He "was quite favorable and is helping us by coordinating with
other agencies," Daigle said.
But the practicality is that August is congressional recess time, and it's
also the month Cabinet secretaries do a lot of traveling. So there are fewer
people to speak with in Washington.
- Tam Moore
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