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Help Save Ranchers from Harsh USDOJ Punishment for Accidental Fire Sign Petition

9/30/2015

Save the Hammonds! ‏

You may have heard this story. An elderly cattle rancher and his son started two preventive fires on their own property in Eastern Oregon that also accidentally scorched adjacent public lands. The ranchers paid a steep legal and financial price for the damage they caused. And now the U.S. Dept. of Justice – our own government – is branding two salt-of-the-earth Americans as “terrorists” for starting prescribed burns.

Sign the petition at http://SaveTheHammonds.com and tell the DOJ to stop this cruel and unusual punishment of American ranchers – not terrorists – who have paid their debt to society. Sign now and share this with your friends! #SaveTheHammonds

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County Planning Denies Request for a Vacation Rental Using Bad Reasoning

9/30/2015

CD-15-122 - Staff Report - Amended 9-30-2015
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BOC ~ Important Public Work Session on Tide Gates Monday September 28, 2015

9/23/2015

Hey Folks,

The Coos County BOC will be having a meeting to discuss Tide Gates in a Work session at 1:30pm Monday September 28, 2015 in the commissioners old meeting room 121. Replacing the old tide gates in the valley is one way to hedge against the expansion of the Bandon Marsh Mosquito Preserve. It is very important that property owners living in the valley attend to assure the property owners are represented.....Rob T.

boc_wk_of_9-28-15_meeting-committee_notice.pdf
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CWA ~ Public Event Solutions to Beaver Flooding Monday September 28, 2015

9/20/2015

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LTE ~ Leshley Don't Know Dick About the JCEP Work Camp

9/20/2015

Letter to the Editor

Thanks Dick Leshley for your frequent letters to the editor as unofficial Jordan Cove Energy Project (JCEP) spokesperson. Your 12 September letter regarding the proposed JCEP workers camp gives many of us Coos County citizens concern.

Three times we are told that the workers camp is “required by the permitting process” or to “comply with the permitting process”. No it isn’t. It is implied that all temporary JCEP workers will be “earning at least three times the median income of Coos County”. No they won’t. Try 150% inclusive of benefits. Twice we are told “no one knows” how many will “use” or “live in” the camp. We are told that JCEP workers are “free to live anywhere they wish”. Why should temporary guest JCEP workers from third world countries be permitted to live “anywhere” and perhaps disappear permanently into the USA?

Most Coos County citizens don’t oppose a JCEP workers camp per se. People oppose a camp built on swamp land, in a flood plain, in a tsunami zone, close by a residential neighborhood, with parking for almost 1,900 vehicles that will be joining local and highway 101 traveling private and commercial vehicles, coming and going over a two lane bridge and through a single common intersection.

Mr. Leshley must understand that materials for constructing JCEP do not exist on the North Spit. Materials will be arriving by barge, some by rail, much by hundreds of trucks daily that will damage rural and local roads; trucks that will not be paying the contemplated local five cent / gallon surcharge to repair roads; trucks that will join logging, chip, and other trucks passing through the North Bend and Coos Bay city centers and heading for that same intersection.

Deepening and widening the channel for JCEP will increase the volume and velocity of tsunami waters. Sounds to me like two 200 foot flare stacks with 100 foot flames ready to incinerate unsuspecting USCG helicopter crews en route to protecting maritime interests; deafening noise during and after construction; and a camp at the proposed location where 1900 vehicles and 2000 bodies may travel upstream to Coos Bay during a tsunami just adds to the insanity.

The IBM slogan for years was THINK! It was Adolf Hitler who said “What good fortune for governments that the people do not think.” Prove Adolf wrong. Think, speak and register to vote.

Fred Kirby
Coos Bay
13 September 2015

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Coos County Approves Nature Conservancy's Tide Gate for China Camp Creek

9/12/2015

ACU-15-03 notice of decision The Nature Conservancy
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LTE ~ Drop One, Raise Another’s Rate? Zero Sum Game for Sewer Users

9/11/2015

Rounding up, Discontinued, Don’t spend your $ saving yet!

Change the plan, re-negotiate, drop the rates. Coos Bay City Council has spent two Council meetings, July/August 2015, with quality discussion about waste water user fees for high strength sewer users. Coming up, third meeting, will they drop rates for high strength, causing rate increases for all the other rate payers?

Drop one, raise another’s rate? Zero sum game. A fixed amount of revenue is schedule to be receive from waste water rate payers each year. So if one class pays less, another class will pay more, keeping the total funds collected the same.

The funds to be collected are all based upon a 20 year plan of upgrades, capital improvements of sewer plants, replacements to sewer, storm system pipes, and pump repair/replacements.

This plan, voted into law, Winter/spring of 2009 began the 20 year 6.5 percent fee rate increase, compounded for all waste water users each year, funding a 20 year “take down” schedule of projects.

I say change the plan, change the schedule, change, by lowering the waste water fee rates, by extending the 20 year plan to 25 or 30 year plan. This will spread out the cost to users, but still get the goals accomplished.

The only part of this plan that is kept on schedule is the rate increases, flowing money to the City. Money flow is disjoined for the purpose of debt service, primarily for rebuilding Plant #2. It is yet to be permitted. No money has been borrowed as yet, other than 4 million, with 24 million, waiting, wanting to be borrowed for Plant #2 construction.

Coos Bay waste water fee revenue, 2015/16 budget year, produces 5 million plus, covers current loan

There is a potential 7 million saving in current plant #2 inflated cost, rebuild plan, sitting on the table, moving the new plant to the North Spit, doing so creates greater additional future cost savings by piping waste water to the North Spit and abandoning Plant # 1, not doing high cost upgrades.

Extending the plan can spread out projects and lowers the waste water sewer fees to customers. Revamping the Classification current system may be necessary so your commercial high strength users, business, mostly located in Urban Renewal districts of Coos Bay will pay their fair share, along with the rest of us.

Denny Powell

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Jody McCaffree Appeals LNG Road Construction Coos County Planning Oct. 9, 2015

9/8/2015

Notice of Public Hearing on Appeals 9-8-2015
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Coos County Planning Decisions on LNG & Effected Roads

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NOAA ~ Public Comment on Management Plan Review for Monterey Bay by Oct. 30

9/5/2015

Hey Folks,

This is what the Feds want off the coast of Oregon and we need to make sure the California NMS system does not leak over into out waters.....Rob T.

Notice of Intent to Initiate Management Plan Review for Monterey Bay

Notice of Intent to Initiate a Management Plan Review for Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary

In accordance with the National Marine Sanctuaries Act, NOAA is initiating a review of the management plan for Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS), located off the Central California coast, to evaluate progress toward implementing the goals for the sanctuary, and to make changes to the plan and regulations as necessary. NOAA is asking the public and stakeholders for comments on this upcoming management plan review for MBNMS. Members of the public are invited to submit comments now through October 30.

Surrounded by a forest of giant kelp, a sea anemone awaits its prey in Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary in California (photo: Chad King/NOAA).

The current management plan was completed in 2008. Preliminary priority topics for the management plan review are: climate change, wildlife disturbance, water quality protection and marine debris. NOAA is interested in public comment on these topics, as well as any other topics of interest to the public or other agencies in the context of this management plan review. NOAA is also requesting public comment on potential regulatory changes aimed at better protecting the marine living resources and maritime heritage of MBNMS. NOAA will conduct public scoping meetings to gather information and other comments from individuals, organizations, tribes, and government agencies. Scoping meetings will be held on: (1) September 10, 6-8 p.m., Monterey Conference Center, Monterey, CA(2) September 23, 6-8 p.m., Louden Nelson Center, Santa Cruz, CA(3) October 23, 6-8 p.m., Veteran's Memorial Hall, Cambria, CA

The Federal Register notice can be found at: http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-08-27/pdf/2015-21132.pdf

Comments can be submitted here:www.regulations.gov/#!docketDetail;D=NOAA-NOS-2015-0099Click the ''Comment Now!'' icon, complete the required fields, and enter or attach your comments.

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NOAA ~ Federal Involvement ~ What the Government Thinks of YOU

9/5/2015

Hey Folks,

Check out what the people in government think of YOU. The callous demeanor of bureaucrats is appalling. In the following document there are some underlined passages that should peak the curiosity.....Rob T.

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LTE ~ "Rodger works for the city council”. No he doesn’t, he serves the Taxpayers

9/4/2015

24th August 2015
According to The World front page article of 20 August regarding the proposed wastewater treatment factory, fiscal responsibility, and prudent spending of the people’s money; and when discussing the Coos Bay city manager, it was reported that Coos Bay Mayor Shoji stated “Rodger works for the city council”.

No he doesn’t. City Manager Craddock serves at the pleasure of the citizens of Coos Bay through their city council. He administratively reports to the city council that controls and directs his functions and responsibilities. He, like the mayor, the city council, the city counselor, the city management, and the city staff “works” for, and is a paid or unpaid, elected or appointed, employee of the citizens of Coos Bay. Nobody on that council pays any of their personal monies to Mr. Craddock as part of his more than $200,000 annual salary / wages, perks, PERS, and auto and phone allowances, other than as overtaxed Coos Bay citizens.

In the same 20 August article, it was reported that the Coos Bay citizens cost conscious council member Mark Daily did not disappoint his constituents and he again insisted that his peers exhaust all possible alternatives and proceed with an open mind to procure for the citizens the highest quality, lowest price, guaranteed on time receipt, wastewater treatment facility to be located on the isolated North Spit and away from the scenic Cape Arago Highway and in a residential neighborhood. Mr. Daily has demonstrated that he is tenacious when conducting the people’s business; he is a fiscally responsible take charge leader. Hopefully Mr. Daily will be a choice for mayor next year. Perhaps the mayor will soon provide her constituents with a more meaningful explanation for her closed mind in the wastewater treatment factory matter.

Fred Kirby
Coos Bay

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Open Letter to Rep. Bruce Westerman on Origins of CBWR in H.R. 2647

9/3/2015

From: Rob Taylor
To:      Office of Rep. Westerman, Bruce [R-AR-4]
            https://westerman.house.gov/
Re:      Origins of Sections 702, 808, & 809 of H.R. 2647,
             Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015

September 2, 2015

To Jordan Garcia Assistant to Representative Westerman,

The following message concerns H.R. 2647 and the Coos Bay Wagon Road Land. The CBWR   land is legally separate from the O&C land, but the two are often lumped together. The people of Coos County have been campaigning for the right to manage the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands ourselves with the authority do decide how best to use these lands. It is a request for the same and equal rights as the Indian tribes. The tribes have a “sovereign nation shield” protecting them from lawsuits by environmentalist groups, which is an advantage to their nation over the private landowners, businesses, states, and local governments in the US.

The County’s general fund would lose about 50% of the proceeds from any timber sales if the county has to pay some other entity to manage property we are perfectly capable of managing ourselves. There was a vote in 1996 asking the voters of Coos County if the Coquille Indian Tribe should manage public lands and it failed by 85% with a large voter turnout. That vote would be about the same today, if the question of land management were on the ballot, because this issue is, and has been, a major contention in the county and in local government for over 100 years.

If the county cannot manage The CBWR property then the U.S. legislature should allow the county to sell it to the highest bidder on the open market, putting it back in the tax base as a benefit to all humankind.

The Federal government owns 53% plus of the state of Oregon, whereas the state of Arkansas has only a mere 9.4% owned by the feds. The Feds do not have the constitutional authority to own any of this land, much less over 50% of a state. The Bill appears to be an attempt by the Republicans in the House of Representatives to use a “politically correct,” federally protected group to hedge against environmental extremism by using their tribal status to circumvent the courts.

To make one group more privileged than another, because of their heritage, is illegal, immoral and repugnant in a Nation that prides itself as equalitarian towards all people, including its own citizens. The agreement with the Indian Nations to acquiesce the management of our own lands instead of defending the Right of Commerce in this county is equally egregious, but this measure is more about obfuscation of the facts.

Fact, the American Indians do not have a real “sovereign nation,” because the US Department of Interior holds all of the lands owned by the Indian Nations in a trust. Fact, the Indian governments will not have any real authority, because the Bureau of Indian Affairs, not the Indians, holds that power,   Fact, most of the tribes are sustained by the hard earned money of the US taxpayer, weakening their own identity and abilities. Fact, these measures are deleterious to the Indian people and go to deteriorate the real sovereignty that is the right of the American Indian to decide their own destiny by owning their own property, and not being subservient to the overreaching and abusive authority of the Department of Interior.

As a Tea Party Republican, you should have known better, Mr. Westerman.

There is still time to work together to remedy this situation.

Official Inquiry:

Where did the wording originate for the portions of H.R.2647 that concern the Coos Bay Wagon Road Land?

Why was the CBWR land added to this bill?

Who did Representative Bruce Westerman, or his staff meet with to discuss adding the language concerning the CBWR land?

Who has Representative Bruce Westerman, or his staff met with from Oregon concerning H.R. 2647, or the sections in H.R. 2647 concerning the O&C Land & CBWR Lands?

Who has Representative Bruce Westerman, or his staff, met with from Oregon, in particularly from Coos County, concerning any public lands?

Where is the authority documented in the US Constitution giving your office, the US Congress, and the federal government to not only own this land, but allow another “sovereign nation” manage those lands?

Link to the Bill in question, H.R. 2647
https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2647/text

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Does Advisory Vote Trump a Resolution for Management of the Wagon Road Lands

9/2/2015

6-36 Measure - Coquille Tribal Forest Plan and Land Transfer Advisory Vote
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It was only an ADVISORY VOTE – which is non-binding. Vote totals were Yes = 2, 229; No = 12,701.

Total Voting 14,940 Failed by 85%

Vs.

BOC Resolution Supporting Wagon Rd Management 2008
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Vote of a former Coos County Board of Commissioners.

Total Voting 3 Passed by 100%

Vs.

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Outsourcing US Land Management to the Indians

9/1/2015

September 1, 2015

Outsourcing US Land Management to the Indians

Recently, the US House of Representatives passed the Resilient Federal Forest Act of 2015 and it has wording buried deep in the bill that would have some serious consequences for the people of Coos County, while fundamentally changing the structure of management for the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands.

The following are some excerpts from federal legislation H.R.2647, Resilient Federal Forests Act of 2015, which pertains to the management of the National Forest System and public lands. The Sections that should be of most concern is Section 702, and Sections 808, and 809, which relates to the management of lands in Coos County.

In Section 702, it authorizes supposedly independent Indian Nations to include US National Forest Lands and public lands in the forest management plans of the individual tribes. The legislation imposes some weak limitations on any other designations for using the land other than stated in the legislation, neutralizing the ability of any of the Indian Nations who may try to usurp the property. The problems with these restrictions are the legal interpretations of the law, especially when dealing with a sovereign nation.

SEC. 702. Management of Indian forest land authorized to include related National Forest System lands and public lands.

Section 305 of the National Indian Forest Resources Management Act (25 U.S.C. 3104) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:

“(c) Inclusion of certain National Forest System land and public land.--

“(1) AUTHORITY.—At the request of an Indian tribe, the Secretary concerned may treat Federal forest land as Indian forest land for purposes of planning and conducting forest land management activities under this section if the Federal forest land is located within, or mostly within, a geographic area that presents a feature or involves circumstances principally relevant to that Indian tribe, such as Federal forest land ceded to the United States by treaty, Federal forest land within the boundaries of a current or former reservation, or Federal forest land adjudicated to be tribal homelands.

“(2) REQUIREMENTS.—As part of the agreement to treat Federal forest land as Indian forest land under paragraph (1), the Secretary concerned and the Indian tribe making the request shall--

“(A) provide for continued public access applicable to the Federal forest land prior to the agreement, except that the Secretary concerned may limit or prohibit such access as needed;

“(B) continue sharing revenue generated by the Federal forest land with State and local governments either--

“(i) on the terms applicable to the Federal forest land prior to the agreement, including, where applicable, 25-percent payments or 50-percent payments; or

“(ii) at the option of the Indian tribe, on terms agreed upon by the Indian tribe, the Secretary concerned, and State and county governments participating in a revenue sharing agreement for the Federal forest land;

“(C) comply with applicable prohibitions on the export of unprocessed logs harvested from the Federal forest land;

“(D) recognize all right-of-way agreements in place on Federal forest land prior to commencement of tribal management activities; and

“(E) ensure that all commercial timber removed from the Federal forest land is sold on a competitive bid basis.

“(3) LIMITATION.—Treating Federal forest land as Indian forest land for purposes of planning and conducting management activities pursuant to paragraph (1) shall not be construed to designate the Federal forest land as Indian forest lands for any other purpose.

“(4) DEFINITIONS.—In this subsection:

“(A) FEDERAL FOREST LAND.—The term ‘Federal forest land’ means--

“(i) National Forest System lands; and

“(ii) public lands (as defined in section 103(e) of the Federal Land Policy and Management Act of 1976 (43 U.S.C. 1702(e))), including Coos Bay Wagon Road Grant lands reconveyed to the United States pursuant to the first section of the Act of February 26, 1919 (40 Stat. 1179), and Oregon and California Railroad Grant lands.

“(B) SECRETARY CONCERNED.—The term ‘Secretary concerned’ means--

“(i) the Secretary of Agriculture, with respect to the Federal forest land referred to in subparagraph (A)(i); and

“(ii) the Secretary of the Interior, with respect to the Federal forest land referred to in subparagraph (A)(ii).”.

Section 808, discusses land in Western Oregon under the authority of the Bureau of Land Management. It provides for the deposit of revenue from the Oregon & California Grant land, which are subject to provisions of title II of the 1937 O&C Act. It excludes the Coos Bay Wagon Road fund according to the provisions in a succeeding Act passed in 1939, which defines the separations of the Wagon Road lands from the O&C Lands. The distinction gives the government of Coos County the ability to collect revenue from the resources on the Wagon Road land without having to share the money with other members of the O&C Act, but only if the county is allowed to harvest it without the interference of lawsuits by environmental extremist.

SEC. 808. Management of Bureau of Land Management lands in western Oregon.

(a) General rule.—All of the public land managed by the Bureau of Land Management in the Salem District, Eugene District, Roseburg District, Coos Bay District, Medford District, and the Klamath Resource Area of the Lakeview District in the State of Oregon shall hereafter be managed pursuant to title I of the of the Act of August 28, 1937 (43 U.S.C. 1181a through 1181e). Except as provided in subsection (b), all of the revenue produced from such land shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States in the Oregon and California land-grant fund and be subject to the provisions of title II of the Act of August 28, 1937 (43 U.S.C. 1181f).

(b) Certain lands excluded.—Subsection (a) does not apply to any revenue that is required to be deposited in the Coos Bay Wagon Road grant fund pursuant to sections 1 through 4 of the Act of May 24, 1939 (43 U.S.C. 1181f–1 through f–4).

In Section 809, it devises a scheme to allow the Secretary of the Interior to develop an analytical plan with two additional alternatives on the management of the land to present to the people of Western Oregon. All the options the Secretary will present to the public will be a list of bounded choices, so no matter what the public decides the Department of Interior will get their desired outcome. These tactics eliminate all other options for using this property

SEC. 809. Bureau of Land Management resource management plans.

(a) Additional Analysis and Alternatives.—To develop a full range of reasonable alternatives as required by the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Secretary of the Interior shall develop and consider in detail a reference analysis and two additional alternatives as part of the revisions of the resource management plans for the Bureau of Land Management’s Salem, Eugene, Coos Bay, Roseburg, and Medford Districts and the Klamath Resource Area of the Lakeview District.

(b) Reference Analysis.—The reference analysis required by subsection (a) shall measure and assume the harvest of the annual growth net of natural mortality for all forested land in the planning area in order to determine the maximum sustained yield capacity of the forested land base and to establish a baseline by which the Secretary of the Interior shall measure incremental effects on the sustained yield capacity and environmental impacts from management prescriptions in all other alternatives.

(c) Additional Alternatives.--

(1) CARBON SEQUESTRATION ALTERNATIVE.—The Secretary of the Interior shall develop and consider an additional alternative with the goal of maximizing the total carbon benefits from forest storage and wood product storage. To the extent practicable, the analysis shall consider--

(A) the future risks to forest carbon from wildfires, insects, and disease;

(B) the amount of carbon stored in products or in landfills;

(C) the life cycle benefits of harvested wood products compared to non-renewable products; and

(D) the energy produced from wood residues.

(2) SUSTAINED YIELD ALTERNATIVE.—The Secretary of the Interior shall develop and consider an additional alternative that produces the greater of 500 million board feet or the annual net growth on the acres classified as timberland, excluding any congressionally reserved areas. The projected harvest levels, as nearly as practicable, shall be distributed among the Districts referred to in subsection (a) in the same proportion as the maximum yield capacity of each such District bears to maximum yield capacity of the planning area as a whole.

(d) Additional Analysis and Public Participation.—The Secretary of the Interior shall publish the reference analysis and additional alternatives and analyze their environmental and economic consequences in a supplemental draft environmental impact statement. The draft environmental impact statement and supplemental draft environmental impact statement shall be made available for public comment for a period of not less than 180 days. The Secretary shall respond to any comments received before making a final decision between all alternatives.

(e) Rule of construction.—Nothing in this section shall affect the obligation of the Secretary of the Interior to manage the timberlands as required by the Act of August 28, 1937 (50 Stat. 874; 43 U.S.C. 1181a–1181j).

In conclusion, the people of Coos County should be contacting their federal Senator and the Senators of the public lands committee to demand that H.R.2647 exclude public lands in America from the management of any sovereign nation other than the US government, including an Indian Nation. The Senate should know that our county government is capable of managing these lands, if the county had the same protections from lawsuits that are the advantage of the Indian Nations.

Moreover, the US Federal government should allow the county to sell these lands on the open market, and all other land owned by the US Federal Government should be reverted to the state of origin, so those lands can go back into production for the betterment of humankind.

https://www.congress.gov/bill/114th-congress/house-bill/2647/text

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