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XT.TTT Unlike zhe Team's critiques of flow and draw down, 



there is a noticeable absence of any discussion of the 

 limitations of transportation studies cited, or the 

 uncertainty of the inferences made by the Teaun. p 5. 



XLIV. The Team has also apparently not considered that if 

 this highly speculative project [a fish-collecting 

 facility at the head of Lower Granite Reservoir] would 

 turn out to be successful, it would mean a drastic 

 change to the lower SnaJce River (and possibly lower 

 Columbia River) ecosystem. The near total removal of 

 juvenile Snake River salmon from these reaches, 

 accompanied by the complete shift to management of the 

 lower Snake and Columbia River flows for hydropower, 

 could have unforeseen negative impacts on remaining 

 populations of other animals, some of them depressed or 

 rare (e.g., sturgeon, lamprey, etc.). p 5. 



XLV. [T]he recovery meas;ires were evaluated within the narrow 



confines of economic and social constraints and not on the 

 basis of biological requirements for recovery and physical 

 constraints of the hydrosystem. p 13. 



XLVI. The Recovery Teaun did not evaluate alternative 



management actions with the goal of increasing instreaa 

 survival of migrating juvenile salmon. For example, 

 there were no management scenarios which evaluated the 

 combination of draw down in the Snake River and flow 

 augmentation in the Columbia River, p 13. 



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XLVII. [W]hile the argument is made against returning to pre- 

 development conditions, there is no inquiry by the 

 Draft into the idea of relative improvement of 

 migration habitat from present day conditions . p 5 . 



XLVIII. It appeared the Team was unaware of ongoing activities 

 in the region concerning the drawdown strategy, amd has 

 not been active in exeuaining the potential of drawdown 

 and drawdown options to address several issues of 

 mainstem survival and the time for implementation, p 

 41. 



XLIX. Despite the number of times the issue is mentioned or 

 discussed, the Team fails to state what they believe 

 "adequate in-river migration" conditions are. This 

 oversight should be addressed, p 50. 



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