# Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council (2025) > Briefs, arguments, decisions, and more. URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/tribal%3Apyramid_lake%3Abbd8c21b850eb9ba ## Record - **Collection:** Tribal code - **Document type:** Tribal code ## Text Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council Post Office Box 256 Nixon, Nevada 89424 Telephone: (775) 574-1000 Fax (775) 574-1054 WATER TEAM MEETING MINUTES Tribal Chambers ~ Nixon, NV April 16, 2025, WTM Members Present: Steven Wadsworth, Tribal Chairman Loren Decker, Councilmember Nicholas Cortez, Councilmember Judith Davis, Councilmember John Guerrero, Councilmember Nathan Dunn, Councilmember Della John, Councilmember Georgina Wadsworth, Councilmember Ceira Sampson, Councilmember CALL TO ORDER Chairman Wadsworth called the April 16, 2025, Tribal Council Water Team meeting of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council to order at 6:00 p.m. ROLL CALL Jakoby Stump (filling in for Brenda Henry, Tribal Council Secretary), took roll call. All Councilmembers were present at roll call, and a quorum was established for this meeting. APPROVAL OF AGENDA Chairman Wadsworth presented the agenda and requested an Executive Session, not water related, this would be to update the Council on staffing. Councilmember Davis said when they have a water meeting, they should stick with water topics. Chairman Wadsworth said he would be okay with an informal discussion after the meeting. Vice Chairman Ely motioned to approve the April 16, 2025, WTM agenda with no changes. Councilmember Guerrero seconded the motion. Votes were nine (9) for and zero (0) opposed with zero (0) abstentions. MOTION PASSED CONSENT AGENDA The following items were presented on the Consent Agenda: 1. Approval of Kemp Jones March 2025 Invoice 2. Approval Stetson Engineers Inc Invoice 1336-2503 and 1336-01-2503 Councilmember Dunn requested to pull item #1 for discussion. Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council April 16, 2025, Water Team Minutes Councilmember Dunn motioned to approve Item #2 in the Consent Agenda. Councilmember Davis seconded the motion. Votes were nine (9) for and zero (0) opposed with zero (0) abstentions. MOTION PASSED Item #1. Approval of Kemp Jones March 2025 Invoice. Councilmember Dunn said on page 3 of the invoice, on the date 3/17/25, “Review and respond to email from J. Guerrero at TNC regarding Tribal position on state legislation,” is that Jay Guerrero or John Guerrero? It was confirmed that it’s Jay Guerrero and Mr. Mixson agreed to spell out names in the next invoice. He questioned why it’s invoiced to the Tribe instead of Will Adler because he is the Tribe’s lobbyist. Mr. Mixson said Jay Guerrero contacted him to talk about water issues and doesn’t think he has a contract with Mr. Adler so he can’t bill him. Councilmember Dunn said he had an issue with Jay Guerrero not being at the Council level and they shouldn’t be charged for it. Mr. Mixson stated if an employee of an organization calls to ask him about the Tribe’s position on something, he usually will talk to them and charge the Tribe. He talked to Mr. Guerrero as an employee of the Nature Conservancy, an environmental nonprofit organization. Councilmember Dunn said Mr. Guerrero is not an employee of the Tribe. Did they give permission for him to reach out to use the Tribe’s attorneys? Mr. Mixson said he wasn’t providing legal advice on behalf of the Nature Conservancy; he was telling him what the Tribe’s position was on pending legislation. Chairman Wadsworth said in reviewing Mr. Mixson’s invoice, charges are either from a state or federal agency, if they are nonprofit or a new agency, he recommended they be directed to his office. Councilmember Guerrero said Jay Guerrero tried contacting the Tribe and he’s also contacted Natural Resources and other tribes to get information. He is a lobbyist who works 1-2 days a week. He covers the Water Act and attends the Tribe’s Water Team meetings. Mr. Mixson said he can go through the invoice and call it a buildup, it’s not about the money, when people call and ask him for information about the Tribe and water issues, he usually speaks to them and that is where he’s somewhat confused. Councilmember Dunn said it’s not for the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, he’s working for another organization, that is why he was asking. Councilmember Guerrero said he did try to reach Mr. Adler and his partner, and also many of the other tribes. Vice Chairman Ely said he did see the concern that Councilmember Dunn has with this item and that is the reason they pay Mr. Adler on the Tribe’s behalf. Councilmember Davis asked for clarification on what the Chairman said about new business or nonprofits being forwarded to his office. Chairman Wadsworth said new business or nonprofits should be referred to his office, state and federal agencies are given. Councilmember Cortez asked if the Chairman would be confident enough to answer questions. Chairman Wadsworth said for any new business, if he didn’t know the answer, he would refer with Mr. Mixson anyways and the Council would know about it. Vice Chairman Ely added it would also be a directive from the Chairman for anyone else to contact Mr. Mixson. Councilmember Davis would like to keep it as it is now since this is the only one that has come up to the Council’s level and with talking it over with Mr. Mixson everyone has the understanding, and she would hate to jeopardize any calls made in the future when it’s currently working. Councilmember Cortez recommended Mr. Mixson clarify a little more in his invoices so there is no miscommunication. Ms. Noel, Natural Resources Director, said, typically with these types of calls Mr. Mixson will call her and ask what she thinks and if she can handle it which she usually does but if it’s a legal topic she will let him handle it. She also talked with Mr. Guerrero and the Nature Conservancy because they’ve done river restoration, so they have been working with them for years. -2-|Page Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council April 16, 2025, Water Team Minutes Councilmember Dunn motioned to approve Item #1 in the Consent Agenda. Councilmember Davis seconded the motion. Votes were nine (9) for and zero (0) opposed with zero (0) abstentions. MOTION PASSED NATURAL RESOURCES. Donna Noel, Natural Resources (NR) Director 1. Request for Approval Sole Source Justifications: Ms. Noel explained when the Finance Department was getting ready for their audit, they requested they have a sole source justification for both contracts. a. Approval of Stetson Engineers Inc. The main reason for using Stetson Engineers Inc. is because they have all the history, and all the documents. There is no conflict of interest. They did a previous 3-bid procurement back when Elwood Lowery was Chairman and found that every proposal submitted had a conflict because they were from the area and worked with the Truckee Meadows Water Authority (TMWA) and all the other Truckee River Operating Agreement (TROA) partners, including Truckee Carson Irrigation District (TCID) and Fernley. This closes the gap for Finance to have it in their files for audit reasons. Councilmember Davis asked to include the full title for Stetson Engineers Inc. on the sole source document. Councilmember Davis motioned to approve the sole source justification for Stetson Engineers Inc. Councilmember Cortez seconded the motion. Votes were eight (8) for and zero (0) opposed with one (1) abstention (Ely). MOTION PASSED b. Approval Kemp Jones LLC. Chris Mixson and Don Springmeyer have been the Tribe’s water attorneys for 19 years. They are familiar with everything TROA, the Settlement Act, and Operating Criteria and Procedures (OCAP). To have another attorney come in and learn everything and to be efficient would be difficult. When they did a Request for Proposals (RFP) during Chairman Lowery’s term, they ran into the same problems or conflicts as with Stetson Engineers Inc. Their sole source justification continues their excellent work with the Tribe. Vice Chairman Ely motioned to approve the sole source justification for Kemp Jones LLC. Councilmember Cortez seconded the motion. Votes were nine (9) for and zero (0) opposed with zero (0) abstentions MOTION PASSED Ms. Noel asked for the Council’s direction. Back in the 80-90s when the Tribe procured Big Bend, Ceresola and Depaoli properties. Everything went into trust except for two parcels from the Ceresola property. She is not sure why the Ceresola parcels didn’t go into trust like the others. They have some funds left in the NFWF grant and have an opportunity to put those two parcels in trust which will eliminate Washoe County property taxes. They also have funds to clean up the abandoned buildings, and trash with their grant so they can get an environmental assessment done and start the trust applications to the Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA). They will work with the Realty Department because there are two people who are living on -3-|Page Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council April 16, 2025, Water Team Minutes the property. She is asking for the Council’s direction or input that they are on board, if they want those parcels in trust, and want the property cleaned up. Councilmember Davis motioned to move forward to put the two Ceresola parcels into trust and to clean it up. Councilmember Dunn seconded the motion. Votes were nine (9) for and zero (0) opposed with zero (0) abstentions MOTION PASSED WATER TEAM 1. Kemp Jones LLP Attorneys at Law Monthly Report. Chris Mixson. Report Submitted There was no executive session requested. TRUCKEE MEADOWS WATER AUTHORITY (TMWA) a. Protests of TMWA & State of Nevada Application for Marlette Lake. As the Council may recall, TMWA filed a temporary instream flow water right change application to move 3,000-acre feet of Marlette Lake water to instream flow in the Truckee River. They were going to use the 3,000-acre feet to meet the effluent return flow requirement to mitigate for sending the effluent water over to Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC). They were putting a lot of pressure on the Water Team to agree to it but since they didn’t quite understand it, the Water Team filed a protest to their application which started settlement discussions. During those discussions and doing research, Mr. Mixson realized the 1990 Pyramid Lake Truckee River Settlement Act says that Marlette Lake water is considered a Trans-Basin Diversion which today they would call a Inter-Basin Diversion. The point is they are moving the water from the Tahoe Truckee Basin over to the Carson River Basin and the Settlement Act says if anybody ever wants to move the Marlette Lake water back to use in the Truckee River Basin, they can only move up to the amount that’s been perfected. The Marlette Lake Water Right, for reasons he is not sure of, has never been perfected and he hasn’t seen any evidence it’s been perfected, and the files at the State Engineer’s office don’t show they've been perfected. He’s talked to the Council about this previously and the consensus was why they would let them do something the Settlement Act says they can’t do. It’s not clear if it would necessarily harm the Tribe all that much to let them do that, but it is 3,000-acre feet of water that would go into Lake Tahoe, so it’s water loss to the system and would arguably harm the Tribe. Mr. Mixson relayed this to TMWA, and they withdrew their application. That’s the end of this item unless it comes up again in the future, which is likely, but they will deal with it then. To perfect a water right it means you have to use the water. The State Engineer gives you a permit and you usually have five years to use the water. After those five years, you file proof of beneficial use which means you used the water under the permit and that’s called perfected, and a certificate is issued. Sometimes you will hear water rights referred to as certificates and sometimes you will hear them referred to as permits. That is the difference between a permitted certificate. A permit is what they call proved up, then it becomes a certificate when it’s perfected. The Marlette Lake system has been there a long time since the turn of the century or earlier and they have never filed proof of beneficial use and perfected the water rights. The State of Nevada owns the water -4-|Page Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council April 16, 2025, Water Team Minutes rights and the dam, and all the diversion works at the dam but the beneficial user is Story County, Virginia City, he’s not sure if it’s ever been privately owned but he doesn’t know the history of the lake. TMWA DONNER LAKE. Mr. Mixson said TMWA is trying to put some type of deal together for Donner Lake, they are trying to find bits and pieces of water. TMWA now owns 100% of Donner Lake, it used to be 50/50 TMWA and TCID, then after the 2008 breach of the Truckee Canal in Fernley, a bunch of Fernley homeowners sued TCID over the breach. In order to raise money to settle that lawsuit, TCID sold their half of Donner Lake to TMWA. Now that TMWA owns Donner Lake in full, it turns out there is a 990-acre foot water rights reservation owned by the Truckee Donner Public Utilities District. They have a right to 990- acre feet out of Donner Lake to serve their customers who live around Donner and Truckee, but they mostly use groundwater now, so they don’t really need Donner Lake water anymore and TMWA offered to buy it from them because they didn’t like this 990-acre feet of water floating around there. This is all according to TMWA. The Truckee Donner Public Utilities District said they would sell the water rights, but they would have to make sure the water gets used for environmental benefits in the State of California. TMWA then reached out to the State of California to ask how they would like to use this water, they can provide them with 990-acre feet of TMWA water, move it around the reservoirs for fish purposes, up around Stampede and Boca and upstream reservoirs. This is where it stands now. The State of California is trying to figure out how this works and the Water Team is looking at TROA to make sure that TMWA can actually use their water for this purpose. Part of the Truckee River Operating Agreement was that TMWA was going to have limits on how they could use their water and particularly what they call their privately owned stored water, which is what all of Donner Lake is, it’s outside of the ditch decree. Part of TROA put sideboards on TMWA’s water use, they can only use their water to serve their customers and can only use the drought reserves when it’s a drought. It means a lot of water that TMWA doesn’t use year over year actually converts to fish credit water to the benefit of the Tribe. The Water Team is looking to make sure the Donner Lake water provided to the State of California for their use is going to be consistent with TROA. Vice Chairman Ely asked if there was any thought of Great Basin Land and Water (GBLW) purchasing the 990-acre feet of water. Mr. Mixson said based on the conditions the Truckee Donner PUD put on it, it has to be used for environmental benefit in California, and they would probably put the same condition on it if GBLW tried to buy it for the Tribe. If there’s a limited use and it can only be used in the State of California, not sure it'd be the best use of GBLW’s funds. NAVY WATER LITIGATION. Last year the Council approved, in concept, a settlement of this lawsuit where 80% of the water would be managed for the benefit of the Tribe and 20% would be managed for the benefit of the Stillwater Refuge in Fallon. That litigation is stayed while they work out the settlement agreement. About two weeks ago, he received a draft settlement agreement from the Department of Justice (DOJ) lawyer, and he’s provided redlines on it but it’s not ready to be presented to the Council. The team is reviewing it and he will send it back to the DOJ lawyer early next week and hopefully will be ready for presentation to the Council at the May meeting. TROA - JOINT PROGRAM FISH CREDIT WATER. This is where the State of California, in the Water Teams opinion, was mismanaging the Joint Program Fish Credit Water, which is the joint pot of joint water managed by California but for the benefit of Pyramid Lake. The Water Team thought they were wasting the -5-|Page Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council April 16, 2025, Water Team Minutes water and the Tribe, under TROA had the right not to let that water get created and they exercised that right to bring them to the table. Mr. Mixson is working with the lawyer for the California Department of Water Resources on a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) to put some sideboards on their management of that water to make sure it doesn’t get wasted. It’s possible they will have an agreement by the May meeting for approval. FERNLEY TRUCKEE CANAL XM EIS LAWSUIT. Fernley appealed their loss in the Federal District Court of their NEPA challenge against the Truckee Canal, Extraordinary Maintenance Canal Lining Project. They ae back to the Ninth Circuit, which is their second visit for this lawsuit. They had a mediation assessment conference with a Ninth Circuit mediator which is something that every new appeal to the Ninth Circuit, they want to see if there is a possibility of settling because it could be faster and less work for the Ninth Circuit judges. During this assessment they get all the lawyers on the phone with a mediator to get a feeling what everyone is thinking. The lawyer for Fernley said they would like to try and settle but the lawyer for the DOJ said no they have no interest in a settlement. Now they must do a briefing which should occur throughout the summer with a hearing in late fall or early winter. They are extremely confident that Fernley is going to lose this lawsuit. Councilmember Wadsworth said in the attachment to his report it says enter judgment against Fernley and in parenthesis it says David Stix. Mr. Mixson said there are two separate suites Fernley filed. In the District Court case, David Stix intervened as a plaintiff, so he is a intervener, just like the Tribe intervened as defendants but now on appeal, Fernley filed their own appeal, and Davis Stix filed his own. They should get consolidated because it’s really the same case, he was the first mayor of Fernley, think they went from an unincorporated town to a city, and he might also be on the TCID Board. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Statewide Geothermal Lease Competitive Bids. This is anew matter; BLM is doing a statewide bidding process to open BLM parcels for geothermal exploration. The Chairman received two letters which are attached, one from the Winnemucca District Office of the BLM and one from the Carson City District Office of the BLM, because each office is overseeing lease sales within their district and those two districts overlap in terms of the Tribe. There are two maps included, the first one (Winnemucca Office) shows where the Reservation is in the bottom left-hand corner and it’s the red areas near the southern corner of the Reservation that has them concerned. There is almost certainly underground connectivity between the geothermal resources that are targeted in those parcels and the geothermal resources within the Reservation boundary. They have already notified BLM that the Tribe is going to have concerns and wants to enter government to government consultation on this. The same goes for the second map (Carson City Office), where there is a green parcel along the Truckee River to the north. They have notified that office that the Tribe has concerns that tapping geothermal resources will impact surface water flows and water quality in the river and asked for government-to-government consultation. They have asked for the two offices to combine the consultation, so they don’t have to go to separate meetings with different offices and get different information from different BLM staffers. They have preliminarily agreed to combine the consultations, and they are searching for dates in May when they can have a kickoff consultation meeting. Ms. Noel has engaged Bill Ennie, geothermal geologist who has been doing geothermal work with the Natural Resources Department, he has a good handle on all geothermal -6-|Page Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council April 16, 2025, Water Team Minutes issues including these two parcels. Allan Richards and he are also involved along with Betty Aleck, Tribal THPO. Chairman Wadsworth said David Stix is the Vice President of TCID. Mr. Mixson said there are issues with him being on the board of TCID and trying to stop the lining project of the Truckee Canal. 2. Stetson Engineers Inc. Allan Richards. Report Submitted. Mr. Richards stated his report covers work performed during the month of March 2025. CEMEX. CEMEX submitted several draft reports relating to their plans to repair the walls around the perimeter of Pit Lake A and will be putting out a contract to have Q&D, the contractor, to start repairing the West Pit Wall. The contractor will be bringing in some 200,000 cubic yards of rock to repair the West Pit Wall with a different contractor who will work concurrently to monitor the settlement of the rock after it’s deposited. It’s a two-year monitoring plan. They will install five monuments along the crest of the rock after it’s installed, and they will survey the monuments quarterly for two years to measure how much settlement occurs after the rocks are placed. They are anticipating settlement will occur and they will have additional rock brought in to offset the settlement once it establishes some equilibrium when settled. Mr. Richards asked CEMEX to give the Council a presentation on the big picture for the repairs around the entire pit lake in the south pond area, they were not ready for this meeting but might be presenting at next month’s meeting. They have asked Ms. Noel and him to go over their presentation materials to see if it’s comprehensible for the Council. CEMEX will also be issuing contracts in the next couple of weeks to excavate the contaminated soil near their office and the shop where they had some historical diesel and gasoline spills. They will determine the extent of the contaminated soil and have a lab test on the soil to make sure they get all the contaminated soil removed and properly disposed of. Once that is done, they will bring in clean backfill. WATER RIGHTS. Stetson is continuing to review the City of Fernley’s groundwater wells and groundwater rights. They want to look at the radius of influence when they pump water from those groundwater wells to see what the potential impact is on the Truckee River flows. There is one well in particular that they are concerned about. It’s relatively close to the Truckee River and he thinks their analysis is going to show when they pump water from that well, it depletes the stream flow. The other wells which are farther away are probably doing the same thing. Stetson reviewed documents received from Great Basin Land & Water pertaining to recent water right acquisitions and finalized two instream water right transfer applications for water rights acquired from Meadow Vista and Shadow Lane in the Fernley area. The instream transfer applications totaling approximately 26.8 acre-feet were filed with the Nevada Division of Water Resources on March 3, 2025. There was also a third acquisition, the Paulson water rights which he didn’t get into his report that was acquired in March. -7-|Page Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council April 16, 2025, Water Team Minutes They got the Tribe’s call for water to have those instream flows delivered this year and will be placed in the next couple of weeks. All the instream water right transfers they have been filing over the years. They call for that water in May to have the delivery start in June. The Chairman received a letter from the California State Water Resources Control Board regarding protests that were filed back in the early 1970s against North Tahoe Public Utility District 55 years ago. The Board is asking what the Tribe wants to do with those historical protests. They are looking at them to see what the potential impacts are. They were filed pre-Settlement Act, pre-TROA. He is discussing it with Mr. Mixson because the Settlement Act has the interstate allocation provisions in it. California is allowed to divert and use a certain amount of water from Tahoe Basin, and they are thinking as long as that amount has not been exceeded, these applications are probably not going to have any impact but it’s interesting these were filed 50-55 years ago. The Bureau of Reclamation (BOR) had a meeting in Carson City on March 7* to discuss the proposed OCAP update. He is keeping an eye on this update because it could have a significant change to the existing OCAP. It’s not going to be something that will occur in the next couple of years, it'll probably be decades if it goes anywhere but BOR is trying to resurrect that process of looking at updating the current 1997 OCAP. The meeting in Carson City included several interested parties and the focus of that meeting was looking at historical hydrology on the Truckee River and projections for future hydrology, taking into consideration potential changes for climate change and then looking at how the potential future hydrology of the Truckee River system might impact the ability to use water on the Newlands Project. Mr. Richards comment was they were not giving proper consideration on what the demand on the Newlands Project would be in the future, particularly that long out in the future, under climate change scenarios because the Carson Division has been shrinking the irrigated acreage in the Carson Division. Carson Division demand has decreased by two thirds of what it was back in the 1970s and will probably continue to decrease. Climate change impacts on the ability to divert Lahontan Reservoir may not mean much when you consider diminishing demand out there. During March the Truckee River flows at the Nixon gauge were about 400 CFS, today, they were up to 725 CFS. The Canal is only diverting water to the Truckee Division because Carson River is meeting the Lahontan storage targets under OCAP, so they stopped delivering water to Lahontan through the Truckee Canal. As a result, that water is all coming down the river to Pyramid Lake. At the State line, the flow of the Truckee River was 920 cubic feet per second and 725 flows to Pyramid Lake which is about 80% of the total Truckee River flow. About 50 CFS is going to the Carson Truckee division, but the majority of the Truckee River is going to Pyramid Lake today. The water level in Pyramid Lake has come down a little from last month, it’s about 3803 and a half feet in elevation and it will probably stay at a constant level for another month or so. In a normal water year, it takes about 420,000-acre feet of inflow to the lake to offset evaporation which calculates to about an average flow rate of 575 cubic feet per second would be needed to flow to the lake every day just to offset evaporation. For the flows into Pyramid Lake for the past 10 years, this year tracking a little bit below normal for this current water year and it helps that water is not being diverted to Lahontan for April. Stampede is about 80% of its capacity and it’s filling from the runoff. -8-|Page Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council April 16, 2025, Water Team Minutes The bid package for the Numana Dam Fish Passage Project went out to bid on Monday. The bids are for the plans and specifications for the project and have gone out to several contractors. There is a pre-bid meeting scheduled in a couple of weeks and the bids are due on May 16, 2025, for the project. Councilmember Dunn asked about an update on the apartments in Sparks. Mr. Richards said Ms. Noel provided them with all the water quality data that the Tribe collected on the lower Truckee River and on Pyramid Lake. Stetson is analyzing the data to see if they can identify any correlation between the discharge event from the Atrium Apartments and water quality in the river and in the lake. It’s an ongoing analysis and a little challenging to identify because the Atrium Apartments, as bad as it was, had a relatively small flow rate, continuous flow. If you take the total volume of the storage over 400 plus days, it turns out to be something like four gallons a minute daily discharge and the flows in the Truckee River were a couple of 100 CFS on average during that period. It’s further complicated because the Truckee Meadows Water Reclamation Facility (TMWRF)is discharging treated effluent into the river and TMWRFs treated water effluent is not the same quality but also a significant flow rate. Their discharges are in the millions of gallons per day. Councilmember Dunn said he talked to a couple of Tribal members, and they said it did smell like sewage water too, he even though it smells like that. Mr. Richards said there are chemicals in the treatment process that come out in the air, if you’ve ever had the opportunity to tour a water treatment plan it’s nasty. He’s been at Numana Dam before and when the water flows over the dam, when the water is aerating, there is a smell of chemicals in the air. Councilmember John asked what steps the Tribe is taking to protect the people, the fish and tourists. Mr. Richards said that would be a question for the Water Quality Manager. Ms. Noel said they are looking at the total amount of nitrogen, phosphorus, TDS, that dumped into the lake, they’re measuring those parameters at two sections in the lake. How did it possibly affect the algae blooms, are there more or less. They are the US Fish and Wildlife Service, how it might affect the Cui-ui and Lahontan Cutthroat Trout. How does it affect the fish or what they eat trying to look for harm and damage. When it comes to TDS, what would it cost to remove all the TDS from the lake that was dumped. Councilmember John said some of their wells are along the river and their animals at the north end of the lake are drinking the water, there is some type of impact. Also, are they going to let water down for the fish this year? Mr. Richards said there are currently releases from Stampede Reservoir that started at the beginning of the calendar year. There are releases from Stampede to meet the fish flow targets and then they are going to supplement that with the claims one and two instream transfers and all the water right acquisitions that they typically file for instream deliveries starting in June. Councilmember John asked if the water in Tahoe was 100% now. She heard on the news that the last storms made the lake go higher; it was previously at seven really low two months ago. Mr. Mixson said it’s projected to fill but don’t think it’s actually full right now. ADJOURNMENT With no further business before the Tribal Council, Councilmember Cortez made a motion to adjourn the meeting. The motion was seconded by Vice Chairman Ely. Votes taken were all in favor, motion carried. The meeting adjourned at 7:11 p.m. Porudad trou. -9-|Page Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council April 16, 2025, Water Team Minutes Brenda A. Henry Tribal Council Secretary CERTIFICATION The foregoing minutes were adopted by the Pyramid Lake Tribal Council, governing body of the Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe, at a meeting duly held on the 20% day of August 2025, having nine (9) members present, constituting a quorum, by the vote of eight (8) FOR and zero (0) OPPOSED, with zero (0) ABSTENTIONS. Minutes attested and concurred by: ==. Steven Wadsworth, Tribal Chairman Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council // -10-|Page --- Source: Frix Law Library, https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/documents/tribal%3Apyramid_lake%3Abbd8c21b850eb9ba. Public record. Not legal advice.