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Negotiation Session Scheduled for Cross Valley Contractors Long-Term Water Service Contracts

Media Contact: Jeffrey McCracken, 916-978-5100, jmccracken@mp.usbr.gov

For Release: October 23, 2006

Reclamation will hold a negotiation session with eight Cross Valley contractors for long-term water service contracts for the delivery of up to 128,300 acre-feet of water from the Central Valley Project (CVP). The proposed term of the contract is 25 years.

These contractors (Lower Tule River Irrigation District, Pixley Irrigation District, Kern-Tulare Water District, Rag Gulch Water District, Tri-Valley Water District, Hills Valley Irrigation District, the County of Fresno, and the County of Tulare) have been receiving CVP water under a series of interim renewal water service contracts since the previous long-term contracts expired in 1995.

In Fresno
Monday, October 30, 2006
10 a.m. to noon
Reclamations South Central California Area Office
1243 N Street
Large Conference Room

The current draft form of contract for the Cross Valley Contractors may be viewed online at http://www.usbr.gov/mp/cvpia/3404c/lt_contracts/2004-05_foc/index.html.

The public is welcome to observe the negotiations. For more information, please contact Ms. Judi Tapia at 559-487-5041, TDD 559-487-5933, or e-mail jtapia@mp.usbr.gov, or Mr. Ray Sahlberg at 916-978-5249, TDD 916-978-5608, or e-mail rsahlberg@mp.usbr.gov. If you encounter problems accessing documents online, please contact Ms. Lynnette Wirth at 916-978-5102 or e-mail lwirth@mp.usbr.gov.

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Relevant Link:

Current Draft Form of Contract for the Cross Valley Contractors