MEDIA ADVISORY

Assistant Secretary Bennett Raley
to Keynote Southern California Water Committee

Bennett Raley, Assistant Secretary of the Interior - Water & Science, will be the keynote speaker at the 18^th annual dinner of the Southern California Water Committee. Members of the press are invited to attend the speech.

DATE:            Thursday, October 24, 2002

TIME:             7:00 p.m.

TOPIC:         "Challenges on the Colorado River"

LOCATION: The Millenium Biltmore Hotel
                       506 South Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, California

Assistant Secretary Raley will be available to the media in the late afternoon of Thursday, October 24, for one-on-one interviews at a location TBD in Los Angeles.

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