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Reports will be completed by the end of this year on our planning for water 

 conservation demonstration projects in Idaho, Oregon, and Washington, and on 

 our appraisal of new storage possibilities in the Snake River basin. 



We are working to upgrade fish screen and passage facilities on our diversions 

 on salmon and steelhead streams, and are sharing a biologist with the Idaho 

 Department of Fish and Game to assist them in their high priority screen work 

 in the Salmon River basin. 



We are also participating in model watershed efforts in the upper Salmon River 

 basin in Idaho and in the Grande Ronde River basin In Oregon. I have Included 

 a recent status report on our salmon recovery efforts with my written »» 

 testimony. 



The Secretary of the Interior and Conmlssloner Beard are strongly committed to 

 Improving Reclamations' water conservation and water management programs, so 

 we are expanding our staffing and funding of those program areas. We have 

 established a water conservation center In our Boise Regional Office to 

 provide technical assistance to water users. We are working with the States 

 to strengthen water measurement programs and to help design water conservation 

 programs. I have also included a status report on our region's water 

 conservation and management efforts with my written testimony. 



Water conservation and Improved regional water management to provide increased 

 flows for salmon would result In Increased hydropower production during 

 periods of juvenile salmon migration. However, this Increase occurs at a time 



