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Napa County & BORever Mob Scoff at Clean Water Act ! FLASH: Lawsuit: Sewage Dumped into Lake Berryessa
From: Oscar Braun [mailto:oscar@oscarknows.com] August 24, 2005 Dear Supervisor Dillon & Ms. Gitelman,
Bravo for you! It was really wonderful to read about Napa County Board of Supervisors taking a leadership role regarding the crackdown on zoning and permit scofflaws. Click here: NapaNews.com | A crackdown on zoning and permit scofflaws As you know, due process and equal treatment under the Napa County zoning and land use ordinances is extremely important for any local government to maintain their credibility and support among law abiding citizens. Sadly, it is a common belief that in
The wealthiest man in the state of Arizona and sole owner of the Forever Resorts empire, multi-billionaire Rex Maughan, has been awarded a 30 month interim concessionaire contract at Pleasure Cove Marina for the exclusive "Rex Maughan price" of one thousand dollars ( $1,000 ). In the attached glossy "Prospectus for Pleasure Cove Marina", Rex humbly claims that his Forever Resorts “walks” it’s environmental “talk”. On behalf of all of us "common folks" at Pleasure Cove Marina that regularly pay close to $6000 a year for our privileged Permittee camping site, we are requesting that Napa County and all State regulatory agencies guide Rex on his long environmental, regulatory zoning and permit compliance "walks". In short, we’d like to be sure that Rex puts a small portion of his BILLION$ where his mouth is….and that should be in the permit fee coffers at Napa County Environmental Management & Health Services. Why should Rex be spared the process that the rest of us politically challenged folks are required to lawfully abide by ?
Attached please find a summary of some of the current permitting issues pertaining to Rex’s Pleasure Cove Marina. Below, please note a citation from the CWP due diligence review regarding
Regards, Oscar Braun, Executive Director, C.W.Posse
RE: Summary Due Diligence and Preliminary National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) Compliance Review – Department of the Interior and Bureau of Reclamation (BOR), III. BOR FAILURE TO COMPLY WITH LOCAL AND STATE LAWS, RULES, REGULATIONS, CODES, ORDINANCES AND POLICIES BOR’s Prospectus and Contract mandates the selected concessionaire to be responsible for the removal and disposal of personal property, fixed assets, and the restoration of public lands, including the abatement of abandoned private trailers during and before the termination date of the new interim concession contract. The same or similar reference to local and state laws are used throughout the Contract, including Reclamation’s manual, directives and standards. When this issue with legal consequences was raised with BOR officials, the common response was that BOR was in charge of permits and compliance issues since it had NEPA responsibilities. Contradictory responses were received from local and state officials as to specific permitting and environmental issues at Regards, Oscar Braun
Based on the findings from the due diligence and NEPA compliance review, it is clear that BOR first priority should be the urgent appointment of a qualified environmental steward with expertise and experience in NEPA/404 environmental compliance issues to protect the water and related resources at Lake Berryessa. An important but secondary priority requires BOR to re-open concession operations as soon as possible at Pleasure Cove Resort in accordance with existing standards in the 1992 RAMP EIS based on the NEPA process and adopted by the 1993 ROD. BOR is charged with the responsibility and duty of serving and protecting the public’s use of federal lands and the interests of the economic stakeholders with good faith investments at Pleasure Cove Resort.
Frank A. Iwama |