Interior names Reclamation
officials
Tam
Moore
Capital Press Staff
Writer
July 14, 2006
Two men
well-known to California water users step up to new jobs with the U.S.
Department of Interior later this month.
Pablo Arroyave, onetime manager of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation San
Joaquin riparian habitat rehabilitation program and now deputy manager of
Reclamation’s Lahontan area east of the Sierras, will become area manager
for the Klamath Reclamation Project.
Jason Peltier, in the late 1980s manager of the Central Valley Project Water
Users Association and since 2001 a deputy assistant secretary of Interior in
charge of the CAFED Bay-Delta agreement, is the new principal deputy in
charge of U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the U.S. Geologic Survey.
Arroyave is a wildlife biologist by professional training. He takes over the
Klamath job at a time when renegotiation of two biological opinions
protecting endangered fish are front-burner items.
Peltier is a Chico State University agriculture graduate who learned the
political ropes as the natural resources staffer for the late Sen. S.I.
Hayakawa, R-Calif., then was an assistant to Reclamation’s mid-Pacific
region director before going to work for the CVP users.
— Tam Moore
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