Fiscal Year 2002 budget and Fiscal Year 2001 revisions
August 13, 2002 | document 2000-15
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Summary
The Council is the region's voice in balancing the need for affordable,
reliable electric power with cost-effective protection and enhancement of
the Columbia Basin's fish and wildlife resources. In a sense, it is the
Council's role to be an honest broker among fish, wildlife and energy
interests, developing scientifically credible policies and recommendations
to best serve the public interest.
During Fiscal Year 2000 the Council is beginning a major amendment of its
Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program to give the program an
explicit scientific foundation and consistent goals, biological objectives
and strategies for action. In turn, these will give direction to locally
developed action plans for each of the 53 subbasins in the Columbia Basin.
The Council's key role in regional fish and wildlife planning is underscored
in draft recovery plans developed by federal agencies this year for
threatened and endangered species of fish in the Columbia Basin. The
agencies are working with the Council to develop subbasin action plans, and
the draft federal recovery plans adopt the Council's 1999 Artificial
Production Review recommendations regarding the future use of fish
hatcheries.
Also this year, the Council has been investigating the reasons behind the
sudden and rapid increases in the cost of wholesale electricity on the West
Coast and the impacts of electricity industry restructuring on the region's
power supply. The Council has identified a substantial risk of adequacy
problems in the power supply and is working with the region's electric
utilities, the Bonneville Power Administration and others to develop
policies and procedures that will help the region avoid power supply and
reliability problems in the future.
The Council's Fiscal Year 2002 budget is $7,880,000. In comparison, the
Fiscal Year 1992 budget was $8,484,000 and last year's was $7,091,000. This
represents an overall reduction of about 8 percent during a 10-year period
while absorbing cumulative inflation projected at 28 percent. The Council
believes this budget is consistent with our mission to protect, mitigate and
enhance fish and wildlife affected by hydropower in the Columbia River Basin
while assuring the region an adequate, efficient, economical and reliable
power supply and involving the public in our decision-making.
Sincerely,
Stephen L. Crow
Executive Director
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