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Local men to testify in D.C.
 

Dan Keppen, Tom Mallams to speak before Congress today 

 

By TY BEAVER

H&N Staff Reporter

July 15, 2010

 

   Two Klamath County residents are expected to testify before federal lawmakers today on whether $1 billion in economic stimulus funding provided in 2009 to the U.S Bureau of Reclamation was well spent.

 

   The House Subcommittee on Water and Power is holding the hearing.  

 

   Dan Keppen, executive director of Family Farm Alliance, and Tom Mallams, an irrigator off the Klamath Reclamation Project and president of Klamath Off Project Water Users, were asked to provide their perspectives on the success of the Bureau’s use of the funds.

 

   Keppen is expected to address benefits of the stimulus money and how it could be used to better address the agency’s infrastructure needs and the demand for more water storage.

 

   Testimony  

 

   “Funding for water conservation and management projects was well received and will provide lasting benefits for many of our members,” Keppen’s testimony reads. “However, funding for rehabilitation of existing aging infrastructure was inadequate when compared to the total funding provided and the huge economic and societal risk associated with aging facilities across the West.”

 

   The subcommittee is part of the House Committee on Natural Resources.

 

   U.S. Rep. Grace Napolitano, D-Calif., is the subcommittee chairwoman and U.S. Rep. Tom McClintock, R-Calif., is the ranking Republican. McClintock represents Modoc County as part of his district.

 

   This will be Keppen’s 12th time testifying before a Congressional committee.

 

   Mallams did not return calls seeking comment for this story.    

 
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