Fiscal Year 2008 Annual Report to Congress

November 12, 2008  |  document 2009-5

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To Congress and the Citizens of the Pacific Northwest:

This document is the annual report of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council to Congress as required by the Northwest Power Act of 1980, the federal law that authorized the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon, and Washington to create the Council. The report provides a synopsis of the major activities of the Council during the fiscal year ending September 30,2008. The report begins with a brief review of the state of the Columbia River Basin in terms of the power-planning and hydropower-mitigation requirements of the Power Act. An appendix follows with specific information about the Council's activities, organized around the Council's major responsibilities. The report concludes with information about the Council's budget and administration.

Twenty-eight years after Congress passed the Power Act, the Council continues to provide Northwest citizens with a fish and wildlife mitigation program based on the best available scientific information and a power plan intended to assure the Northwest an adequate, efficient, economical, and reliable electricity supply. The Council encourages broad public participation in its planning activities and therefore offers a unique opportunity to citizens to participate in decision-making about future sources of electricity and mitigation of hydropower impacts on fish and wildlife of the Columbia River Basin.

I am pleased to submit this report for Fiscal Year 2008.

Sincerely,

Steve Crow, Executive Director

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