•mainstem Corps pro/ectaboth the Columbia. Basin "FisP^nd^Wddlite Council and the Corps sent 

 letlefs to the Council suggesting revisions to the schedules the Council had proposed m its 

 amendment applications Based on the information contained in these letters, the Council statt has 

 made a preliminary decision to' accept the Corps- modified proposal for bypass system schedules 

 However, the Council and its staff will continue to explore ways to accelerate permanent juvenile 

 fish pypass system installation at these two projects. 



1504(39.6) NRIC This application proposes that the Counc ii conduct a Bonneville-funded study 

 of power revenues foregone due to flood control, recreation, irrigation and other uses of the federal 

 hydropower system Staff proposes rejection of this application because staff cannot determine 

 that the proposed study would protect, mitigate and enhance fish and wildlife. (16 U-S C, 

 839b(h)(5) ) Moreover, the amendment application would call for hydropower ratepayer funding of 

 a study that goes beyond the effects of hydropower oevelopment and operation, which would 

 conflict with congressional direction that Consumers of electric power shall bear the cost of 

 measures designed to deal with adverse impacts caused by the development and operation of 

 electric power facilities and programs only ' (16 U S C 839b(h)(8)(B),) 



1 504(42. 3),'CBFWC. This application would call o n Bonneville to incorporate into its Long-Term 

 Intertie Access Policy "enforceable conditions' requiring operators of generating resources that 

 wish to transmit power over the intertie to be consisteni wnn the Northwest Power Act, the power 

 plan, and the program The Council proposes to reject this recommendation because it would be 

 less effective than adopted recommendations tor the protection, mitigation and enhancement of 

 fish and wildlife. (16USC 839b(h){7)(C),) Section- 1.304 of the program already calls on 



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