The Council is seeking public comments on its draft 11th annual report to the Northwest governors on fish and wildlife expenditures of the Bonneville Power Administration. This report details Bonneville’s spending from 1978 through the end of Fiscal Year 2011, including expenditures on the Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program.
The Council prepares and periodically revises the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program under authority of the Northwest Power Act of 1980, a federal law. The Program 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. Under the Power Act, Bonneville funds implementation of the program.
Comments on the draft report will be accepted through 5pm Friday, July 6, 2012. See sidebar.