"The committee's conclusions are subject to modification in the future if scientific evidence becomes available to show that modification of flows or water levels would promote the welfare of the threatened and endangered species under consideration by the committee. The committee will make a more comprehensive and detailed consideration of the environmental requirements of the endangered suckers and threatened coho in the Klamath River Basin over the next year, during which time it will develop final conclusions."
Statement made before the Committee on Resources U.S. House of Representatives on March 13, 2002 by William E. Lewis, Jr., Professor of Environmental Science and Director at the Center for Limnology, Cooperative Insitute for Research in Environmental Sciences, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; Digitized version of the statement of the chairman of the Committee on Endangered and Threatened Fishes in the Klamath River Basin, National Research Council/National Academy of Sciences 2002 version; Includes bibliographical references (leaf 4);