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Accomplishments to Date 



Over the past 13 years, Bonneville's rate payers have invested what is now approaching 

 $2.0 billion through direa expenditures and foregone revenues to protect and enhance 

 Columbia River Basin fish and wildlife. As noted on the attached chart, BPA's Fish and 

 Wildlife Investments (Attachment 1), significant increases in Bonneville investments have 

 occurred in recent years. The increase coincides with the recent listings of several stocks 

 of Columbia River salmon under the Federal Endangered Species Act. 



Recently, the region has adopted a comprehensive, biologically-based plan to address the 

 problems causing the decline in the Basin's salmon stocks. Bonneville and other Federal 

 agencies are working, and will continue to work, cooperatively to accomplish 

 implementation of the Strategy for Salmon recently adopted by the Northwest Power 

 Planning Council. 



Since Senator Hatfield held the first hearing in June of 1990 on the threat to Columbia 

 Basin salmon, Bonneville has fiiUy supported the National Marine Fisheries Service 

 (Fisheries Service) development of a biologically sound, comprehensive plan for the 

 recovery of listed species. Bonneville, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (Corps), and the 

 Bureau of Reclamation (Bureau), in consultation with the Fisheries Service, developed a 

 set of aaions for hydrosystem operations in 1993 (principally based on the Council's 

 "Strategy for Salmon") which resulted in a determination that there would be no jeopardy 

 to the continued existence of the species. 



We are working efiFectively with the Fisheries Service and other agencies to ensure that 

 factors affecting all stages of the salmon life cycle are being addressed. We also 

 recognize, respect, and support the roles and responsibilities of other entities, including 



