California is Dying

The local and national news media has loved to declare San Francisco in a state of decline and/or crisis on many occasions in the last five or so decades, so this is just a primer for everyone who wasn't aware of that and bought into the "failed city" and "doom loop" narratives too hard.

Drugs. Crime. Homelessness. Offices vacant. AIDS everywhere. People being randomly shot on the street. These have all been parts of news segments and broader narratives about San Francisco going back to the 1970s at least, and back in the 60s you would have heard a lot of complaints about hippies and runaways overrunning the formerly quaint Haight-Ashbury. (California native Joan Didion, who had aged out of the hippie era, wrote a famous essay about the dark side of the Summer of Love that's titled "Slouching Toward Bethlehem.")

The 1970s

The 1970s were a dark enough time in San Francisco that writer David Talbot wrote a whole book about it, Season of the Witch. Talbot touches on stories like the People's Temple and Jonestown, the Zodiac Killer, and the Zebra Killings, in which four African American men were ultimately convicted in the racially motivated shooting of random white people on the streets of the city between 1973 and 1974 — 14 were killed and 8 were injured.

That was 50 years ago, and murder rates around the country were spiking. The New York Times ran a piece in August 1973 noting that the murder rate among Black people was eight times that of the rate among white residents.

Serial rapists and murders — like the Zodiac, the Hillside Strangler and the Golden State Killer — were also regular fixtures of the nightly news in the Bay Area in the 70s.

It was a time of urban chaos all over the place, which contributed to the popularity of law-and-order grandpa Ronald Reagan, and his election in 1980.

The 1980s

Speaking of the 80s, a 1987 video clip from CBS News has been going around to counter the "doom loop" stuff. The segment notes empty offices and a loss of 30,000 jobs in San Francisco largely due to "corporate headquarters moving elsewhere."

"San Franciscans are noted for their tolerance," says reporter John Blackstone. "But they have been intolerant to what's often called 'progress,' partly because San Francisco is now known for AIDS, as well as for cable cars."

And Blackstone talks to one elderly resident from 1987 who says, "Well I think San Francisco has gone to the dogs, in every way."


Homelessness as we know it blew up in the Reagan Era, spurred in part by disinvestment in affordable housing and mental health treatment, and a Republican push against welfare programs.

The New York Times covered San Francisco's homeless problem in 1983, noting how contradictory it seemed to have a homeless shelter opening at Grace Cathedral, atop storied Nob Hill, "where imposing mansions were built from Gold Rush fortunes."

"At least you're not likely to get jumped in this neighborhood," said one of the homeless waiting to get in, Jessie Marcel, who was likely referring to the dangers of the Tenderloin a few blocks downhill.

KQED made its first documentary about what it called the "growing homeless population in the Bay Area" in 1983. You can see a clip from that below.

The 1990s

SFist has printed this before, but the fact is that the homeless crisis in San Francisco was at its worst over 25 years ago, in the mid-1990s, and it has basically improved since the early 2000s, with some bad and some better years. Mayor Art Agnos — who, by the way, was one of those injured in a Zebra Killers shooting — was blamed for being too soft on homelessness. He basically permitted, for a time, a huge encampment that took shape in 1989 in front of City Hall, which became derisively known as "Camp Agnos." He made an attempt to clear it in July of that year but it only reformed and became larger after the Loma Prieta earthquake in October.

Under Mayor Willie Brown, in 1997, it was estimated there were 11,000 to 14,000 homeless people in the city, and Brown was becoming frustrated. As the Washington Post reported at the time, Brown became a target of protests after his administration began citing homeless people for being on the street.

"People should... take advantage of the programs we have," Brown said at the time. "I can't talk with these people anymore... There are some people who just don't want to live inside, and there's nothing you can do with them. They are the hobos of the world. They don't want help."

Again, that was 1997. The last point-in-time homeless count in San Francisco found around 7,750 on the streets in 2022 — maybe a 50% drop in 25 years, if that earlier high estimate was correct, or more. This 1998 piece from the New York Times, headlined, "Homelessness Tests San Francisco's Ideals," cites a figure of 16,000 homeless. A 21-year-old Oakland man had just been arrested that week for stabbing homeless people and killing one — he claimed to be a vampire who was after their blood.

"We figured the slasher was the one way to get us off the sidewalks," joked one homeless man at the time, referring to Brown's crackdowns.

As for drugs, it's hard to quantify and assess what's bad or worse, but there's no question heroin, opioids, and in particular fentanyl, have led to more overdoses and death, and contributed to the crisis on the street.

As KQED reports, San Francisco was "in the midst of a heroin overdose crisis" in 1998, and this led to the city's public health department moving toward harm reduction as a priority in the drug crisis — a precursor to today's push for safe-consumption sites and free Narcan.

The 2000s and 2010s

And there was, of course, the dot-com bust of 2001, when many younger people who had flocked to the city to work in tech were suddenly out of jobs. That led to empty office building, and it took at least three years before the city felt like it had recovered from that — which would be a couple years before Web 2.0 companies like Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube popped up.

In 2002, the Chronicle wrote about how homelessness remained the city's number-one political issue, and then-Supervisor Gavin Newsom had put his "Care Not Cash" initiative on the ballot, which was later approved by voters.

"With the homeless population more visible than ever, city residents and shocked tourists have expressed their frustration to hotel owners, the mayor and the media about aggressive panhandlers, people urinating and defecating in public and eating from trash cans," the Chronicle wrote in 2002.

There was plenty of outcry about empty storefronts and depressed retail on SF street before the pandemic, and that is, of course, worse now, though some neighborhoods are doing fine. There was also talk in 2019 about conventions leaving the city — like Oracle's OpenWorld, which announced it was decamping to Vegas before the pandemic started.

Here's a piece from 2009 about San Francisco last major economic downturn before the pandemic, when the Great Recession hit here a little later than the rest of the country.

"2009 is shaping up to be a challenging year," said Dan Goldes of the San Francisco Convention and Visitors Bureau. "Between the economy in the U.S. being sort of rocky shoals and the economy in other countries being on rocky shoals, that has a pretty big impact on international visitation to San Francisco."

"San Francisco has survived earlier downturns, from the Great Depression of the 1930s to the dot-com crash of 2001," that 2009 piece concludes. "A century ago, the city was almost leveled by a great earthquake and fire. It bounced back fairly quickly, and people here say San Francisco today remains resilient."

And let's not forget that when we aren't in nadir-like, bust times, San Francisco is also criticized for being too clean, sanitized, and rich.

I'll leave you with this 2018 piece from Harper's, which isn't about SF, it's about New York, titled "The Death of a Once Great American City." The piece is primarily about how gentrification, unaffordability, and general affluence has slowly deprived New York of its eclectic, creative, gritty character.

"For the first time in its history, New York is, well, boring," writes longtime NY resident Kevin Baker, calling the city "the world’s largest gated community."

By similar comparison, he writes, "San Francisco is overrun by tech conjurers who are rapidly annihilating its remarkable diversity; they swarm in and out of the metropolis in specially chartered buses to work in Silicon Valley, using the city itself as a gigantic bed-and-breakfast."

Lots of those same "tech conjurers" have either fled to Austin or Miami, or they've pivoted whatever they were doing into AI. So, time to write the next chapter, then?

Related: SF Chronicle Now Seems to Regret Amplifying the 'Doom Loop' Narrative It Heavily Amplified
 
I have several friends and former co-workers who still live in San Francisco. Heard from a few that the homeless/druggie element was swept away, cordoned off from certain areas, with the inconvenient inhabitants temporarily being kept in hotels in the South Bay until APEC is over. They are allegedly being paid to be quiet and have been promised they can return.

Potemkin Village indeed.

I know for a fact that San Francisco is worse than ever. The latest news reports that this is a temporary condition like the 1970s downturn is false. Too many stores and other businesses are closing left and right due to crime, filth and meaningless words from Mayor London Breed and her ilk. I don't have any illusions that things will turn around anytime in the near or somewhat distant future for the City by the Bay. Same goes for California. Oh, well. It's not where you are, but what you do and see according to the Cs. So far I've seen plenty and I'm certain more is to come.
 
I have several friends and former co-workers who still live in San Francisco. Heard from a few that the homeless/druggie element was swept away, cordoned off from certain areas, with the inconvenient inhabitants temporarily being kept in hotels in the South Bay until APEC is over. They are allegedly being paid to be quiet and have been promised they can return.

Potemkin Village indeed.

I know for a fact that San Francisco is worse than ever. The latest news reports that this is a temporary condition like the 1970s downturn is false. Too many stores and other businesses are closing left and right due to crime, filth and meaningless words from Mayor London Breed and her ilk. I don't have any illusions that things will turn around anytime in the near or somewhat distant future for the City by the Bay. Same goes for California. Oh, well. It's not where you are, but what you do and see according to the Cs. So far I've seen plenty and I'm certain more is to come.

so, they can clean up if they want. wow, what a performing america...
 
Crime and chaos in the blue states is what drives the migration of US citizens, next to the cost of living and taxes

By Jamie Joseph Published June 10, 2024, 9:39 am PDT California FOX News
Californians fleeing the blue state over its high cost of living are showing no signs of slowing down, according to the latest report by a major moving and storage company.

"The Golden State has a reputation for imposing high sales, income, and property taxes. The cost of living is approximately 50 percent higher in California than the national average, and housing costs can be prohibitive," according to a report on 2024 moving trends published by PODS.

The report, published May 20, found that more people are moving to the southern Appalachian region, which includes parts of South Carolina, Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, all conservative states.

"California is number one in all the wrong things," Will Swaim, president of the conservative think tank California Policy Center, told Fox News Digital on Friday. "Add to that regulations that make building new homes almost impossible, and it's no wonder that people are moving out."

"California is number one in all the wrong things," Will Swaim, president of the conservative think tank California Policy Center, told Fox News Digital on Friday. "Add to that regulations that make building new homes almost impossible, and it's no wonder that people are moving out."

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Businesses are getting in on the piece of the pie, too. The study noted companies are packing up to southern sunbelt states like Texas, Georgia, Arizona, North Carolina, and Tennessee, according to data collected from Iron Mountain. Why? Because these regions "offer lower operational costs, tax incentives, and better value for employees."

Los Angeles and San Francisco landed in the top two spots for the cities seeing the highest numbers of residents moving out.

Terry Gilliam, the founder of the popular Facebook group "Leaving California" which has hundreds of thousands of members, told Fox News Digital in an interview the list confirms "you're not just getting the high-end taxpayers, but the middle class taxpayers are leaving."

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Homelessness in California under Governor Gavin Newsom has increased from 151,00 in 2019 to 181,000 in 2024. (Fox)

"I think that that's what California's been doing for the last many years, is eliminating the middle class, and Governor [Gavin] Newsom loves to brag about how California's economy is top five in the world, and then he came out bragging about how there's now more Fortune 500 companies based in California than anywhere else in the country," Gilliam said. "But that's for the wealthy, and in reality, the middle class is what's suffering in California, and that's why they're leaving."

Gilliam and members of his group did a 10-day tour of the south, he said, and talked to people in every town who had left California.

"And really what it comes down to is the quality of life for their family, lower cost of living, better schools, politics that align with the way they feel in these southern towns," he said.

According to the report, four California markets rank in the top 10 for the most outbound moves, including Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, and Stockton-Modesto.

"The various locations of these cities point to the fact that this is a statewide exodus," the report concluded.

California saw its first-ever population decline in 2020 when the state imposed rigid lockdowns during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. From January 2020 to July 2022, the state lost well over half a million people, with the number of residents leaving surpassing those moving in by almost 700,000.

In January, California topped U-Haul's Growth Index list for having the largest net outbound movers in 2023.

People leaving California to Arizona in record numbers

More Californians are flocking to the Grand Canyon State.

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A spokesperson for Gov. Newsom's office pointed Fox News Digital in an email to the International Monetary Fund’s World Economic Outlook report "noting that California remains the 5th largest economy in the world for the seventh consecutive year, with a nominal GDP of nearly $3.9 trillion in 2023 and a growth rate of 6.1% since the year prior, according to the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis."

"California's per capita GDP is the second largest among large economies," Newsom's office said. "California, which has the most equitable tax system in the entire country, is #1 in the nation for new business starts, #1 for access to venture capital funding, and the #1 state for manufacturing, high-tech, and agriculture."
 
Money well spent? Free beer, wine and vodka for the homeless. You really can't make this stuff up.


The city set up its managed alcohol program four years ago, initially as part of its Covid response, in the hopes of keeping vulnerable people out of jails and emergency rooms.

But the topic has flared up on social media again, with the chair of the Salvation Army San Francisco's advisory board, Adam Nathan, speaking out against it. Nathan, who is also the CEO of an AI company, posted on X, formally Twitter, that he "stumbled across" the former hotel that the program operates out of last week.

He wrote: "It's set up so people in the program just walk in and grab a beer, and then another one. All day. The whole thing is very odd to me and just doesn't feel right. Providing free drugs to drug addicts doesn't solve their problems. It just stretches them out. Where's the recovery in all of this?"
 
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A homeless man attacks the mayor of Marysville, California.




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Sheriff’s Robbery and Homicide Detectives responded to the scene along with Crime Scene Investigators. They learned that a group of approximately 12 suspects forced entry into the business by breaking the front door and smashed jewelry display cases using hammers and pickaxes, stealing large amounts of jewelry. Detectives also learned that during the robbery, the male store owner began shooting at the suspects, when the owner’s wife was inadvertently shot, along with one of the suspects. The suspects then fled the scene with the stolen jewelry.

Sheriff’s Robbery detectives conducted further investigation into the incident and arrested brothers 22-year-old Nethaniel Fuimaono of Concord, 19-year-old Sonny Fuimaono of Suisun City, and 28-year-old Aaron Fuimaono of San Francisco. They also arrested 19-year-old Hanson Dang of Suisun City. Nethaniel and Sonny Fuimaono were armed with handguns when they were arrested on different dates. All four suspects are now in custody at the Main Jail.#police #cops #policia #crime

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Cattle ranchers in Siskiyou County who are under a drought emergency order imposed by California Gov. Gavin Newsom in January now find themselves in the midst of a massive flood.

A torrent of water from heavy rains, called “atmospheric rivers,” in February has inundated the farms and ranches in the Scott River and Shasta River valleys, where the governor’s executive order—which authorizes the California State Water Resources Control Board to enforce emergency regulations and place water-use restrictions—remains in effect.

Newsom has renewed the drought emergency for several years in a row, and the farmers and ranchers say it is high time for the governor to end it.

The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Feb. 18 to declare a local flood emergency.

Siskiyou County Supervisor Jess Harris (District 1) told The Epoch Times that Siskiyou is the only county that is still under the drought emergency order, despite raging floodwaters.

“It’s the most asinine thing I’ve ever seen,” Harris said.

“The state has a drought emergency on us, and we have a flood emergency at the county level.”

The county states in the flood emergency proclamation that heavy rain-induced ground saturation has damaged infrastructure; strained local government resources; “drastically affected” residents and their livelihoods; and caused “daily landslides, rock falls, and roadway undercutting.”

The floodwaters have breached irrigation canals; washed out roads and city streets; and inundated the Shasta, Scott, and Klamath rivers with debris, according to the county, which has also warned of flooding along the tributaries of these rivers with warmer weather and runoff from snowmelt on the way.

The governor’s office did not respond directly to an inquiry, deferring to the state water board.

Drought Emergency?

In May 2021, Newsom declared a drought emergency in several counties throughout California, including the Klamath Basin, citing critical low river flows. He extended emergency regulations to all 58 counties in October 2021, urging all Californians to voluntarily conserve water by reducing consumption by 15 percent, according to the state water board.

Nearly three years later, on Sept. 4, 2024, the governor rescinded many of the order’s provisions because of significant precipitation and improved conditions in several watersheds, particularly in the Sierra Nevada range.

“However, the order specifically found that continued action is needed—including the authority to impose future curtailments—to abate harm to native fish in the Klamath watershed, the water board said in a Jan. 7 statement. The board declared that the emergency regulations were readopted to set minimum flow levels for both watersheds and authorize water-use restrictions if water flows were to fall below such levels.

Flooding in Scott River Valley saturates ranches and farms in Siskiyou County, Calif., after rains in late December 2024. Courtesy of Mel Fechter

The water board maintains that the emergency regulations are necessary after “years of dry conditions” that are still affecting native fish such as the coho salmon, Chinook salmon, and steelhead trout.

The Scott and Shasta rivers are key tributaries in the Klamath River watershed, crucial water sources for Siskiyou County and habitats for “federally and state-threatened coho salmon” that are of “immense economic, ecological and cultural importance” to Native American tribes and the surrounding communities, the release states.

Precipitation in the Klamath watershed improved significantly in 2023 and 2024 following drought conditions in 2021 and 2022, when flows in the Scott and Shasta rivers dropped below minimum levels set by the board from 2021 to 2024. Although rain and snowfall are above average so far this year, conditions could change, according to the water board.

“Successive years of dry conditions have severely impacted critical fish populations ... requiring us to take measures to protect their very existence,” E. Joaquin Esquivel, state water board chairman, said in the statement. “Continuing the emergency regulation enables us to maintain minimum flows in the Scott and Shasta rivers and to help with the recovery from long-term drought impacts.”

Flooded fields in Scott River Valley in California’s Siskiyou County after heavy rains in late December 2024. Courtesy of Mel Fechter

If the state is wrong, and it turns out that there is ample water for farming and ranching, the governor’s refusal to lift the emergency regulations will needlessly hurt the local economy for another year, Harris said.

“They’re risking the livelihoods of thousands of people,” he said. “A 30 percent water-use curtailment is a 30 percent reduction in income for ranchers because you have 30 percent less acres that you can hay. That’s like asking the government to take a 30 percent pay cut. They have no issue with applying that to the ranchers and saying that the lack of fish is all their fault.”

Without Newsom’s executive order, the water board would not have the authority to impose water-use curtailments, and the state would be violating adjudicated water rights, Harris said.

“They’re using this emergency declaration to trample on those water rights,“ he said. “This is the only way that they can continue to keep their foot on the throat of the rancher.”

It is ironic, he said, that the state removed three dams in Siskiyou County, the only county that is still under a drought emergency declaration during a flood.

Klamath River Dams Removed

The demolition of the hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River last year—the reservoirs of which were not used for irrigation—were supposed to increase flow and reduce water temperatures to save the fish, Harris said.

When asked if the dams’ demolition has helped to increase water levels, especially with the recent deluge from the winter storms, Ailene Voisin, a spokeswoman for the state water board, told The Epoch Times in an email that the dam removal restored about 400 miles of vital habitat for salmon and other species that are essential to the river’s ecosystem and the communities that depend on them.

But because the dams blocked the natural flow for more than a century, Voisin said, it is “going to take some time for the species to recover,” and “removing the dams did not address the issues impacting its tributary streams.”

Voisin also said in the email that the water board has “no comment” about whether the ranchers and farmers have a legitimate case for eliminating the drought emergency regulations.

Ranchers Resist Restrictions

Theodora Johnson, a spokeswoman for the Scott Valley Agriculture Water Alliance, and her husband, Dave, told The Epoch Times that ranchers in the Scott and Shasta valleys are calling for an end to the emergency drought proclamation.

As sixth-generation ranchers, the Johnsons said the continuous state-imposed water restrictions for livestock and irrigation are threatening their livelihoods.

“It’s a third good water winter in a row,” Theodora Johnson said. “So if we’re having winters like these and they can’t lift emergency restrictions, then I can’t see there ever being a year when they would lift them.”

Water is running at about 10 cubic feet per second in a “dry gulch” on some leased land near the ranch, Dave Johnson said.

“Everybody that lives here says they never see it run,” he said.

The Scott River and creeks surrounding their ranch are overflowing and many of the hay and alfalfa fields are saturated and submerged, the Johnsons said.

Debbie Bacigalupi, who runs a cattle ranch with her parents in Siskiyou County near Yreka, California, told the Epoch Times that the flood has wreaked havoc on the land.

“We have waterfalls in places we’ve never had waterfalls before,” Bacigalupi said.

One pond that has been used for decades will be empty for the first time this summer because a levee broke from all the floodwater, Bacigalupi said.

“There’s so much water, it’s absolutely ridiculous that we are in an emergency drought order still,” she said. “We have so much flooding and erosion. Our ditches—not all but many—are overflowing and breaking. We’ve got dams that are breaking. It’s so bad. It’s thousands of cubic feet going downstream every second.”

State agencies, including the water board and the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, met with local farmers and ranchers to discuss what are known as Local Cooperative Solutions (LCS) on Feb. 25, according to Harris, who attended the packed meeting of about 40 farmers and ranchers in a small room at Etna City Hall.

“The farmers and ranchers are tired of the state water board’s opinions and want to see facts that their curtailment of water is actually helping anything,” he said. “In a year with so much water, it’s hard to fathom being curtailed another year.”

They are “frustrated” at the irony of being asked by the state water board to cut back on water usage during a flood, he said.

The LCS plans are the state’s way of “forcing the farmers and ranchers into doing what they want,” he said.

Signing an LCS can mean ranchers have to put meters on their wells “and jump through a bunch of hoops” to be allotted a certain amount of water up to a certain point or face a possible 95 percent reduction by September, Harris said.

“The state water board has got this down to a science,” he said.

Debbie Bacigalupi and her mother, Donna, tend to cattle at their ranch in May 2024. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Bacigalupi said her family has not signed an LCS agreement with the state and does not intend to.

“Where’s the evidence so far that any of this stuff has worked?” she said. “These people who aren’t boots on the ground and [don’t] live in the area are coming up with these solutions, and yet they don’t have to live with the consequences of these plans.”

The LCS plans are not truly “local cooperative solutions” because the restrictions are dictated by the state, she said.

California Natural Resources Secretary Wade Crowfoot, who has advised Newsom since 2019, said in a video interview at an Agri-Pulse Food & Ag event in Sacramento on July 11, 2022, that voluntary plans were needed to break out of “the endless cycle of regulation and litigation” over water rights adjudicated in federal courts.

He said Newsom wanted to create “more of a shared approach to managing water” to protect fish and water quality and avoid litigation.

“So we came up with these voluntary agreements,” Crowfoot said. “And they’re enforceable but they’re called voluntary because they’re bringing everyone together.”

Surveying the Flood

Lisa Mott, a Montague resident who grew up on a ranch in the Shasta Valley region and has photographed the swollen Shasta River, told The Epoch Times that she has not seen this much flooding since 1997.

“The Shasta River is well beyond the flood stage in these two storms that we had,” she said.

The first storm hit in late December more than a week before the governor renewed the drought emergency order, and the most recent one hit in the first week in February, Mott said.

“Even the Klamath River was flooding,” she said. “The last storm definitely raised the river quite a bit because we were already saturated from that December storm.”

The Shasta and Scott rivers have been targeted because the state is going to need more water flow for the Klamath River now that the dams and the reservoirs are gone, Mott said.

Mel Fechter, a photographer in Scott Valley, said “it was storming like crazy” the day before the meeting in Etna.

“I feel so sorry for these farmers and ranchers,” Fechter, who has talked to many of them about the state water restrictions, said.

“I just don’t understand where these people are coming from,” he said of the state agencies.

“I’ve lived here almost 50 years now, and this is the most standing water I can remember seeing all throughout the valley—not just the flood, but the standing water,” he said.

Competing Bills

Meanwhile, competing legislative bills—Assembly Bill 430 and Assembly Bill 263—dealing with water restrictions were introduced in the state Legislature this year.

AB 263, introduced by Assemblyman Chris Rogers (D-San Francisco) on Jan. 16, would keep the emergency regulations in place in the Scott River and Shasta River watersheds “until permanent rules establishing and implementing long-term instream flow requirements are adopted for those watersheds,” according to the bill text. It would also make “legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute” for these watersheds.

AB 430, introduced on Feb. 5 by Assemblyman Juan Alanis (R-Modesto), would require the state to conduct a comprehensive study to reassess the economic effects of the emergency regulations each year in these two watersheds before a governor could renew them. It would also require the state water board to make the study available to the public on its website no later than 30 days before the date of the renewal.

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