After decades of struggles over water and years of negotiation,
an agreement, the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement (KBRA),
was finally signed by 42 stakeholders. This agreement was slated
to expire at the end of 2012 unless congress gave authorization
for the agreement. To give congress more time to enact the
required legislation, all the parties to the KBRA agreed to
extend the deadline for congressional approval. According to a
press release from the Karuk Tribe, dated Dec. 31, 2012: The 42
parties that originally signed the Klamath Basin Restoration
Agreement have all agreed to extend the deadline for
congressional action necessary to implement the Agreement. The
42 Parties comprise Klamath River tribes, irrigation districts,
conservation groups, fishermen, local and state governments. As
originally drafted, the KBRA would have terminated on December
31, 2012 unless Congress passed authorizing legislation. Because
it was increasingly clear that Congress would not act before the
KBRA’s self-imposed deadl