Name:   Osms - Subject:   Link to FERC filing Date:   1/16/2016 9:49:01 AM

The link below will lead to the FERC filing.  These three "tree hugger" groups exist to file challenges to everything.  Alabama Rivers, American Rivers, and World Wildlife Fund routinely file these documents at just about every opportunity they have.  Since they all have full time lawyers on staff, my guess is that it's more job justification than concern for the fishes.  The filing is over 80 pages of fill in the blank form letter type legalese.  Representatives of the organizations were at all of the Relicensing Meetings and were vocal about issues relating to fishes and critters in the river, primarily below the dam.  I have read most of the document and I have not seen any negative comments about the winter water level, nor the extended summer pool.  Hopefully, FERC will politely push this aside in a timely manner, but I suspect the implementation of new winter levels will not happen on January 20.  In talking with the representatives over the five years of meetings and watching their previous filings that requested more and more fish studies downstream (not in the lake), we are not surprised at their action.       

http://elibrary.FERC.gov/idmws/file_list.asp?accession_num=20160115-5153