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Comment on this document The Council is seeking public comments on this seventh annual report to the Northwest governors on Bonneville Power Administration expenditures to implement the Council’s program to protect and rebuild fish and wildlife in the Columbia River Basin. The seventh annual report details Bonneville’s spending from 1978 through 2007. The report details Bonneville expenditures to implement the Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program. The program, prepared by the Council under authority of the Northwest Power Act of 1980, a federal law, is designed to protect, mitigate, and enhance fish and wildlife, and related spawning grounds and habitat, of the Columbia River Basin that have been affected by hydropower dams. Comments will be accepted through the close of business on Friday, June 6, 2008. Comments should be directed to Mark Walker, Director of Public Affairs, Northwest Power and Conservation Council, 851 S.W. Sixth Avenue, Suite 1100, Portland, OR, 97204, or submitted by e-mail to . Sincerely, Stephen L. Crow Executive Summary In Fiscal Year 2007, the Bonneville Power Administration spent a total of $716 million to mitigate the impacts of hydropower dams on fish and wildlife of the Columbia River Basin. Of this amount, $139.5 million was for direct spending to implement the Northwest Power and Conservation Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program. The remainder was money Bonneville reimburses the Corps of Engineers and Bureau of Reclamation for fish-related dam operations ($60.3 million); interest, amortization, and depreciation (these are called “fixed expenses”) on capital investments in facilities such as hatcheries and fish passage at dams ($112.9 million); forgone hydropower revenues that result from dam operations that benefit fish but reduce hydropower generation ($282.6 million); and power purchases to replace the forgone hydropower ($120.7 million). Tables 2-4 of this report detail Bonneville’s direct spending on the Council’s program in Fiscal Year 2007 The 2007 expenditures bring the grand total of Bonneville’s fish and wildlife spending, from 1978 when the expenses began, through 2007, to $9,378,800,000. Here, in descending order, is a breakdown of the expenditures, 1978-2007, which are detailed in Table 1 of this report:
The Council thanks the Bonneville Power Administration for providing information about the agency’s fish and wildlife expenditures for this report. |
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