1. The Jordan Cove Pacific Connector Gas Pipeline and Terminal

2. The Clean Water Act The purpose of the Clean Water Act is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the waters of the United States. The Army Corps of Engineers and the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality both have roles in implementing this important law that protects our ability to swim, drink and fish in public waters.

4. The Army Corps The Army Corps of Engineers has the duty to protect public waters through the control of dredged or fill material. Regulations prohibit the discharge of dredged or fill material into the aquatic ecosystem unless the Army Corps issues a permit to do so, with conditions to protect the aquatic ecosystem. In other words, the Army Corps is supposed to deny a permit if there would be unacceptable adverse impacts to the environment from the project. The law requires special attention to impacts to wetlands, because these areas are generally recognized as significantly influencing or positively contributing to the general overall environmental health of an entire ecosystem.

5. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) Oregon Department of Environmental Quality is responsible for ensuring that federal actions that would impact Oregon’s waters – such as the permit for the Jordan Cove facilities under consideration by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers – will meet Oregon’s water quality standards. Oregon’s water quality standards are designed to protect the important uses of our water, including fishing, recreation, drinking water supply and a myriad of other uses. Oregon’s decision is limited strictly to water quality impacts from the physical facilities construction and operation. Climate, landowner rights… are not included.

6. Beneficial Uses in the Rogue: - Public Domestic Water Supply - Private Domestic Water Supply - Industrial Water Supply - Irrigation - Livestock Watering - Fish & Aquatic Life - Wildlife & Hunting - Fishing - Boating - Water Contact Recreation - Aesthetic Quality - Hydro Power - Commercial Navigation & Transportation

7. Oregon protects beneficial uses through water quality standards such as: - Temperature: Site specific to protect cold water fish species (map next slide). - Turbidity: No more than a ten percent cumulative increase in natural stream turbidities may be allowed - Biological Criteria: Waters of the State must be of sufficient quality to support aquatic species without detrimental changes in the resident biological communities.

9. Additional protections are granted to waters already suffering from too much pollution, called water quality impaired. Impaired waters come in 2 types: -Approved TMDL. A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) document is a restoration plan for the damaged watershed. TMDL document sets limits for types of pollution. Pollution is allowed according to these allocations. -No TMDL yet. These impaired waters have no analysis yet for how much pollution they can handle. No pollution of the identified types are allowed.

10. Proposed Rogue River pipeline crossing near Shady Cove Trip Jennings

11. The Jordan Cove LNG terminal would be located on the north spit of Coos Bay. Coos Bay Proposed Jordan Cove LNG terminal RBrittsan, Wikipedia

12. Impacts to waterways from the pipeline: Cross 400 waterbodies; Cross at least 35 waterways that are already water quality limited or impaired; Would cross approximately 11.64 miles of wetlands, impacting approximately 239 acres of wetlands; Excavate a total of 126,571.80 cubic yards of material from wetlands and waterways along the route; Require clear cutting of hundreds of acres of the remaining old growth forests on public lands in Oregon; Cross steep and remote terrain prone to landslides where emergency response is limited to local volunteers; Permanently impair thousands of acres of state, federal and privately owned lands; Withdraw and discharge millions of gallons of water for pipeline testing.

13. Impacts to waterways from the terminal include: 38 acres of wetlands, mostly from dredging the access channel and slip; Discharges of pollutants caused by construction activities and operations; Disposal of dredged material in a designated offshore area; Shoreline erosion from ship wake; Potential strikes or strandings to marine wildlife from LNG vessels; Loss of habitat in Coos Bay and at dredged material disposal site; Withdraw millions of gallons of water from wells on the North Spit.

14. These impacts would violate Oregon’s water quality standards. DEQ knows this, Jordan Cove knows this. How could this project be allowed then? Mitigation.

15. -When wetlands are destroyed, wetlands would be created, restored, or otherwise protected at a different site. -When water quality would violate state or federal law, the mitigation measures (tree planting, etc) would be proposed elsewhere to offset it. Is mitigation the answer?

16. Mitigation. -When wetlands are destroyed, wetlands would be created, restored, or otherwise protected at a different site. -When water quality would violate state or federal law, the mitigation measures (tree planting, etc) would be proposed elsewhere to offset it. Is mitigation the answer?

18. Key points for comments: -You depend on Oregon’s waterways for fishing, drinking water, quality of life, recreation and other values. -Jordan Cove Pacific Connector would violate Oregon’s water quality standards, and would further damage already impaired waterways.

19. Key points for comments: -Mitigation is not appropriate for this project. -Sufficient details have not been provided by the proponent to be able to evaluate the effectiveness of any mitigation proposal. -Temporal loss. Damage would occur before mitigation was in effect. -Spatial loss. Damage in the Rogue and other watersheds would be mitigated in an entirely different watershed.

20. Raise an issue, describe your concerns around that issue, demand that DEQ protect the things you care about. Ask DEQ to deny the water quality certification and protect Oregon’s waterways.

21. Oregon DEQ Jordan Cove Water Quality Comments Due Friday, March 13 th at 5pm 401 Public Comments DEQ Eugene Office 165 E. 7th Ave, Suite 100. Eugene, OR 97401 Email: 401publiccomments@deq.state.or.us

22. WE can do it!