Judge OKs Deadline for River Plans
Development of plans to protect Sespe Creek and two other California streams will be accelerated under an agreement approved last week by a federal judge.
The settlement, endorsed by U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer in San Francisco, requires that the U.S. Forest Service complete comprehensive management plans for the rivers by December 2003.
In a lawsuit filed last year, a coalition of environmental groups accused the Forest Service of needless delay in finishing the plans. The groups contended that the federal Wild and Scenic Rivers Act required that the plans be ready by 1995.
The affected waterways include portions of Sespe Creek and the Big Sur and Sisquoc rivers.
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