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Hearing held: September 24, 1993 1 



Member statements: 



Hon. Larry LaRocco 1 



Hon. Peter A. DeFazio 3 



Witness statements: 



Hon. Larry Echohawk, attorney general, State of Idaho 4 



Panel consisting of: . , . . . , o 

 Randall W. Hardy, Administrator, Bonneville Power Admimstration . 19 

 Stan Grace, chairman. Northwest Power Planning Council, accom- 

 panied by Jay Webb, Idaho Council Member 78 



Panel consisting of: ^ t, • tt o 



Maj. Gen. Ernest J. Harrell, commander, North Pacific Region, U.b. 



Army Corps of Engineers ■■■■■■■■• 154 



J. Gary Smith, Operations Director, Northwest Region, National Ma- 

 rine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Adminis- 



tration 



269 



Anthony Van Pelt, member, Umatilla Tribe Fish and Wildlife Com- 

 mittee and Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission, accom- 

 panied by Rob Lotiirop 288 



Panel consisting of: 



Bruce J. Lovelin, executive director, the Columbia River Alhance dZl 



Ed Chaney, executive director. Northwest Resource Information Cen- 

 ter, Inc 361 



Don Godard, manager. Grant County PubUc Utility District, accom- 

 panied by Jim Davis, commissioner, Douglas Country Public Utility 

 District, and Sonny Smart, general manager, Chelan County Public 



UtiUty District "•••••■ 3^3 



Jim Baker, Northwest Salmon Campaign Coordinator, Sierra Club .... 380 

 Al Wright, executive director, Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference 



Committee 452 



Panel consisting of: ,,„,„.,. ^^ • ^oc 

 Marvin L. Plenert, Director, Region 1, U.S. Fish and Wildhfe Service 485 

 Sherl L. Chapman, executive director, Idaho Water Users Associa- 

 tion, Inc ^01 



Joe Stegner, Stegner Grain and Feed 509 



Kenneth R. Pedde, Assistant Regional Director, Pacific Northwest 



Region, Bureau of Reclamation 514 



Karen Garrison, Natural Resources Defense Council 567 



Material submitted for the hearing record fi-om: 



Hon. Larry Echohawk: Prepared statement of Hon. Cecil D. Andrus, 



Governor of Idaho •"—•••—.■• ^ 



Randall W. Hardy, BPA: Responses to questions fi-om Chairman DeFazio 



regarding September 24, 1993 hearing 42 



Stan Grace, Northwest Power Planning Council: Status of Implementing 



the Strategy for Salmon, September 8, 1993 99 



Maj. Gen. Ernest J. Harrell, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers: Techmcal 

 Appendix— Columbia River Regional Forum, final draft, September 15, 



1993, System Operation Review 164 



J. Gary Smith, NOAA: Supplement to the record on the role of the 

 pubUc in consultations under section 7(a) of the Endangered Species 



Act and a brief review of NMFS efforts to maintain an open process 302 



Jim Baker, Sierra Club: "Lower Snake River Reservoir Drawdown on 

 Barge Transportation: Some Observations," by Joel R. Hamilton, Idaho, 

 Michael Martin, Oregon; and Ken Casavant, Washington 437 



(III) 



