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ESTUARY WATER QUALITY RESEARCH will suffer under President Bush’s proposed budget, which cuts $10 million from the USGS Toxic Substances Hydrology Program. S.F. Bay is the primary estuarine site studied within the program; the budget cuts will virtually eliminate new research dealing with biogeochemical and contaminant transport processes in the Bay, according to the Survey’s Kathy Kuivila. Upstream, the National Water Quality Assessment Program, which studies the Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, also faces cuts of approximately $20 million under the president’s budget.

AUCTION JUNKIES can now simultaneously indulge their habit and help the nation’s estuaries. In early May, eBay.com began hosting an online charitable auction benefiting the 28 National Estuary Programs (Including the S.F. Estuary Project) and their Association of National Estuary Programs. Together, the NEPs and ANEP provide local and national efforts to restore estuaries, bays and lagoons. Items donated so far include boat rides, fishing trips, whale watching trips, ski vacations and bed and breakfast weekends. To participate, visit eBay.com and search "ANEP" or click on the blue "Charity" icon. To donate an item or service, contact Dawn Volk, at (703) 333-6150 or drvolk@erols.com.

THE AGENCY THAT REGULATES DEVELOPMENT ALONG CALIFORNIA'S COAST - and protects coastal mountain ranges and wetlands - may be forced to change its structure or even shut down following an April court ruling. A Superior Court judge declared that the make up of the California Coastal Commission - under which two thirds of the members are appointed by the legislature and can be removed at any time - is unconstitutional because it conflicts with the commission’s role as an executive agency. The commission is appealing the decision.

THE PLAN TO TURN TWO DELTA TRACTS into reservoirs is headed for court. San Joaquin County and the Central Delta Water Agency filed suit in March to block the Delta Wetllands project, which would store approximately 800,000 acre-feet of water on two islands while turning two more into wildlife sanctuaries. The plaintiffs, who claim the project could harm water quality and levees, and subject nearby farmland to seepage, challenged the adequacy of Delta Wetlands environmental review.

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