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Northwest Resource Information Center, Inc. 



[Pri Box 427 Eagle, Idaho 83616 

 Ig^ Telephone 208-939-0714 -8731 

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Testimony of 



Ed Chancy, Executive Direaor 



Northwest Resource Information Center, Inc. 



Before 



Bonneville Power Administration Tusk Force 



Peter A. Defazio, Chairman 



Committee on Natural Resources 



U.S. House of Representatives 



At 



Boise, Idaho Field Hearing 



September 24, 1993 



Mr. Chairman and members of the Task Force, my name is Ed Chaney, I am Executive Director of 

 the Northwest Resource Information Center, Inc., a nonproHt organization which conducts research 

 and analyses the social, economic and public policy implications of natural resource issues. 



I have been professionally involved in Columbia River Basin energy, water and anadromous fish 

 issues for a quarter-century. During that time I participated in crafting the fish and wildlife 

 provisions of the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act of 1980, served 

 on the Northwest Power Planning Council's initial Scientific and Statistical Advisory Committee, 

 and have worked with the Act, the Council and its Fish and Wildlife Program since their inception. 

 I am intimately familiar with the Bonneville Power Administration's activities vis-a-vis salmon and 

 dependent economies prior to 1980 Act, and with Bonneville's response to the Aa, to the Council's 

 program, and to the application of the Endangered Species Act to Snake River salmon. 



I appreciate the opportimity to testify before the Task Force. It brings long over-due, badly needed, 

 and I hope continuing, congressional scrutiny of the Northwest Power Planning Council's Strategy 

 for Salmon in general, and of Bonneville Power Administration's nonresponsiveness to that strategy 

 in particular. 



Mr. Chairman, for the most part my remarks today focus on the questions posed in your invitation to 

 testify. I request that you leave the record open for at least two weeks so that I and others may 

 submit additional, more detailed supporting information. 



I ask also that you forbear my plain talk before you today; it is an inconvenient and unpopular 

 symptom of going on three decades' experience with what is arguably the greatest man-caused 

 environmental and economic disaster in modem history of the Republic. 



First, I want to briefly provide some context within which to respond to the questions posed by the 

 Task Force. 



