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Service's biological opinions. There is no increased likelihood of providing 

 a recovery measure by including it in Coordinating Agreement planning. 



Financial impacts to BPA attributable to a recovery measure's effect upon 

 power rights and obligations under the Coordinating Agreement are of 

 concern to BPA. If a measure is submitted with sufficient lead time to 

 incorporate it in the planning cycle, then these impacts are minimized. 

 Even when there has not been the desired lead time, parties to the 

 Coordinating Agreement have negotiated a sharing of financial impacts. If 

 the coordination of Federal, state. Tribal and private entities is enhanced 

 such that recovery measures are determined with sufficient lead time, this 

 will go a long way to ensuring both a reliable source of regional power and 

 an equitable sharing of recovery measure costs. 



Answer 6d: Adopting a new agreement or creating a new regional entity among BPA, 

 the Corps of Engineers, the Bureau of Reclamation, the Council and others 

 to administer annual river operations. 



Although improvements are possible and new approaches are being 

 evaluated as part of the System Operation Review Forum objective, river 

 operations for fish are currently proposed, discussed, agreed to, and 

 coordinated through the Four-Agency Operations Team (4A) and the Fish 

 Operations Executive Committee. The 4 A agencies are National Marine 

 Fisheries Service, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, U.S. Bureau of 

 Reclamation, and BPA. The 4 A Team was created to implement river 

 operations for listed stocks in the Snake River. The Fish Operations 

 Executive Committee is comprised of representatives of the Federal action 

 agencies, regional fisheries agencies and Tribes, utility interests, and the 



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