peter jackmire with the river trust. i want to thank you all for giving attention to the letter that the n.g.o. submitted on september 24th. discussing that at your meeting on the 25th. also, we appreciate an opportunity to speak with some of your staff about the three points we made. the third point, i think we were a little too subtle on that. that was related to communications with federal agencies. our concern was that the sfpuc, along with the irrigation districts have been lobbying the trump administration to essentially get agencies to back off on the recommendations. you might have seen that on october 1st, the u.s. fish and wildlife service, which is under department of interior, rescinded its recommendations from the ready for environment l analysis. fish and wildlife staff spent years basing the recommendations on the best available science. they were told from above to rescind those recommendations and embrace the tal amir river management plan. i will read something from their letter. it says, the service pr