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Mr. Pedde. There are some sites. Part of the Power Council's 

 plan requested Reclamation to work with the other agencies in the 

 region to look at storage for fish purposes. We put together a team 

 involving a number of folks from the various States. Initially there 

 were over 500 different sites suggested. Working again with those 

 same folks, we established some criteria to winnow them down to 

 a manageable number. We are in the process of looking at prepar- 

 ing a final report. It should be out later this year, for the Power 

 Council, on what those sites are and so forth. The Weiser site, for 

 example, is one that as far as I know might have some potential. 

 It is not without cost, of course, not without environmental consid- 

 erations and everything else, but it may be a possible site that 

 could be used if 



Mr. LaRocco. Is that the Galloway? 



Mr. Pedde. Galloway, yes, sir. 



Mr. LaRocco. Okay. 



Mr. DeFazio. I thought at this point you had some unallocated 

 water in this area. 



Mr. Pedde. Very little, sir. We have got about 4.2 million acre- 

 feet of storage space in the basin. Virtually all of that has either 

 been set aside by authorized purposes or has been contracted to 

 users of one tjrpe or another. We do have a little bit of unused 

 space, unallocated and uncontracted space in Cascade Reservoir. 

 We have administratively set that aside because of some very seri- 

 ous water quality problems up there. 



Beyond that, we have virtually no space that is not dedicated to 

 some purpose. 



Mr. DeFazio. Some of it is dedicated to flow at this point, right? 



Mr. Pedde. No, sir, actually through Bonneville Power we have 

 been renting water, we have provided this last year water which 

 was set aside for power generation purposes, things like that, in 

 order to come up with water. 



One of the last blocks of water we had was approximately 

 100,000 acre-feet of space that was committed as mitigation for the 

 Shoshone-Bannock water rights settlement that the state and the 

 tribes negotiated. That agreement has not been fully consummated, 

 so we did use that water this year, the water in that space. 



But we have virtually no space left that is not committed to some 

 purpose. 



Mr. DeFazio. If you are renting water for electricity and you are 

 contributing to fish and all that, I mean it soimds Hke you are pret- 

 ty much tied in. So I am wondering why has the Corps left some 

 of your dams out of the Systems Operation Review? 



Mr. Pedde. We need to step back a little bit and look at what 

 happened. The Systems Operation Review was started before there 

 was a listing. It was intended to address renewal of the PNCA con- 

 tract and then some return of power agreements to Canada and so 

 forth. The upper Snake projects were constructed, built, put in op- 

 eration, long before the PNCA came into existence. They have 

 never been part of that agreement; they are considered hydro-inde- 

 pendent. In other words, they do generate power on some schedule, 

 and that must be factored into Bonneville s planning. But they do 

 not have rule curves like the rest of the system; they are not oper- 

 ated anjnvay the same way. 



