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LXVII. Unfortunately, specific measures, standards, and 

 timetables are lacking throughout the Team's 

 Recommendations. While they do contain informative 

 discussions of the nature of salmon decline, the 

 Recommendations do not lay out a step-by-step approach 

 to respond to that decline, p 1 



We still do not have a critical path leading to recovery at 

 a definite point in time. We still do not have an analysis 

 indicating that recovery of Snake River salmon, which has 

 proven so elusive in the past, will occur under the Team's 

 Recommendations, p 2. 



LXVIII. The Team should revise its Recommendations consistent 

 with the Power Council's Strategy for Salmon. It 

 should use the Strategy as a starting point, filling in 

 a critical path for implementation, including 

 rebuilding schedules, survival standards, and 

 performance standards. It should embrace the goal of 

 harvestable upriver runs to provide renewable, economic 

 benefits to the region for generations to come, p 2. 



LXIX. It goes without saying that the Columbia and Snake are 

 no longer natural rivers in the pure sense, but that 

 does not mean that a more natural river is not 

 economically possible or biologically desirable. The 

 Team simply failed to fully investigate the full range 

 of short term and long term options for improvement of 

 the river ecosystem. It did not look at the full range 

 of flow augmentation alternatives. It did not look at 

 modifications to power planning, operations and 

 marketing, p 3. 



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