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base so see as Teoefme ouiselves as t2ie piaoe that salmon 

 tobe. 



It is moA neoessaiy and it is anaooeiitaUe. We do have tiie build- 

 ing blocks for the «almnw le ui wet^'- What has been btriring is the 

 piiiiti^l vin to make thme hard cfaoioK. The Northwest needs 

 nMMPP lenders gnrh iwf -y™^ ifaloniM liarKh 



We Tr*"< to stop the Uamie game and we need to ivotk together 

 OBL d» MfRmU 9'i*»rtinmg whlch the cntiie society is going to have 

 to paitki|iate in. Ibe Nofthwest Power Planning Goomdl has pro 

 Tided an a de qu ate s ta rtin g point in its strategy for sahnnn. Witii 

 wmttMR^-mititmMt amA itttmuutt^ndaitumtii from tribal and State afjendes. 

 we feri we can stfll avoid the all too finniliar train wreck. Thank 

 yoo- 



IStatenikent of lix Hgmiitinn can be found at the end erf" the hear- 

 ing-] 



Ms Unsoeld Let me throw a question out finr all of yon because 

 I have beard the theme repeated that we dtm\ need a lot mmre 

 studies, -we need to get on with the acdrnL. But the Northwes: 

 Power Cairnol ra-n Tnalrf» T y<inmim« ^a<iaiinng but does not leaUy have 

 the auiiiDrity to make the d^gwpg and im|dement thenL The Na- 

 tional Marine Fisheries Serrioe doesmt kick in at all until the En- 

 dangered Species Act steps in so what would you as a panel of ex- 

 perts with a lot of experience in this area, niiat would ywi rec- 

 ommend to makf this a more efficient dedsionmaking and imple- 

 menting process, what should — yosn look lea^ to answer that- I 

 would like to hear from all of you but you fiist. 



Ms. BoDl. I would like to first point out that in many ways, if 

 you are talking about the river system, we have a riveT manager 

 and it is the Bonneville Power Administration. In the tug over the 

 Endangered Species Act, the National Marine Fisheries Service is 

 now exercising more control but the Bonneville Power Administra- 

 tion is not quite giving it up. 



So I tbi-nk it is important to recognize some of the institutional 

 tensions that are going on here even on the issue of NMFS" role 

 under the Endangered Species Act. But beyond that we have the 

 problem that 



Ms. Unsoeld. You weren't suggesting that BPA was the 

 proper 



]M5. BODi. No. 



Ms. Unsoeld. OK. 



Ms. BODL Thank you for clarif>±[ig that. If I left any doubt what- 

 soever. I think the Bonneville Power Administration is unequivo- 

 cally not the right place. I do think that because of its endangered 

 species responsibilities the National Marine Fisheries Ser\'ice has 

 an important role to play. 



I would agree with those critics on both sides of the table who 

 would say that the National Marine Fisheries Service could do a 

 lot better job than it has done, particularly in lapng out a longer 

 term strategy- and game plan — so that we Imow where we are going 

 and we have a good amount of stability both for the fish and for 

 the eco-^omic interests that need some greater certainty here too. 

 - thorny question, as Ted Bottiger put it. is how do you 

 av . ^ralizing all the decisionmaking here and pro^'ide a mean- 



mgrai role for the State fishery m.anagers and for the tribal fishery 



