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e] Transferring a lump sum in fish and wildlife fitnds fi-om BPA to fish and wildlife agencies to be 

 administered by those agencies for salmon recovery, while providing accountability for the results of 

 the work funded; or 



Bonneville has used its control of the purse strings to: impede adoption and implementation of the 

 Council's program; fund anti-fish propaganda, disinformation, cooked "science," diversionary 

 studies and research, and costly scams like the S.S. Cockamamie [Corliss] and squawfish "control" 

 programs; build a redundant fish and wildlife bureaucracy; shamelessly buy state, federal and tribal 

 fishery agency acquiescence to its political agenda; and corrupt scientific fish and wildlife 

 management to a degree unparalleled in the Northwest and perhaps the Nation. Unfonunately, it is 

 abundantly clear this propensity is hard-wired. 



The Council should be given authority to accept and disburse ftmds from Bonneville to implement 

 the program adopted through the public process. Bonneville should annually write one lump sum 

 check to the Council to fund approved program measures. The Council should disperse the funds; 

 the recipients should be held strictly accountable for expenditure of funds. 



The President and/or the Congress should direct Bonneville to immediately eliminate its costly, 

 redundant fish and wildlife bureaucracy. Bonneville should redirect its energy from trying to 

 control the Fish and Wildlife Program of the Council [of which it has made a real mess] into 

 figuring out how to do its real job of marketing energy well enough to pay its bills [of which it has 

 made an even bigger mess]. Until these things are accomplished, it is foolish and potentially 

 dangerous to the public interest to seriously entenain any so-called "competitiveness" initiatives for 

 Bonneville, or God forbid, even think of giving this architect of environmental and economic 

 disaster more autonomy as a government corporation. 



fj Legislatively creating a new entity or designating an existing agency with authority to 

 mandate salmon recovery actions. 



The salmon of the Columbia River Basin and the people who depend upon them will not survive 

 another "new entity." Less, not more bureaucracy is needed. With the exceptions noted above, the 

 laws and institutions are adequate to ensure fulfillment of long-standing congressional intent and the 

 will of the people that salmon and the people who depend upon them be protected in operations of 

 the FCRPS. What is lacking is accountability; that only will come if the President and the Congress 

 use their powers of oversight and control of the appropriations process; the preceding identifies 

 pivotal leverage points. 



Thank you for the opportunity to testify. I would be happy to answer any questions. 



