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Mrs. Chenoweth. When will you provide them? 



Mr. Lyons. As soon as we can. 



Mrs. Chenoweth. Within 30 days? 



Mr. Lyons. We can do that, I am sure. 



Mrs. Chenoweth. Can we make sure that is here within 30 

 days? 



Mr. Hansen. I will look forward to receiving the information, and 

 I am sure they will give the report. 



Mr. Lyons. Yes, Mr. Chairman. 



Mrs. Chenoweth. Mr. Richmond, I understand that after ap- 

 peals were filed with your plan in 1994, that the regional forester 

 told you to do a study of economic impacts as required under 

 NEPA. 



Have you considered this? 



Mr. Richmond. Congresswoman Chenoweth, we did in the envi- 

 ronmental impact statement, the NEPA process, do the economic 

 analysis. We did it on the outfitting community as a whole, not by 

 individual outfitters. 



The Regional Forester, in reviewing the appeals, directed me to 

 do an economic analysis specific to each individual outfitter and 

 display those effects in an environmental analysis, and we are cur- 

 rently working on that. We will have the draft of that EA pub- 

 lished by the 10th of June, and we will have it in the public's 

 hands for 30 days for their review and comment, and I will have 

 a decision by August 1st on that. 



Mrs. Chenoweth. We are looking at a river about 65 miles long 

 and about a half-mile wide. Doesn't that require an environmental 

 impact statement? That is a major Federal action. 



Mr. Richmond. We did the environmental impact statement, 

 Congresswoman, on the entire river, and as I mentioned, the re- 

 gional forester felt that my economic analysis was not specific 

 enough to individual outfitter permits, so we will tier this environ- 

 mental analysis to that EIS. 



Mrs. Chenoweth. Mr. Richmond, this is a copy of the economic 

 analysis done by the outfitters, and I am advised to date, you have 

 not used the information in this. 



Mr. Richmond. To date, what I have done is analyzed that pro- 

 posed model and found that it doesn't meet standard accounting 

 definitions or methodologies and consequently, overestimates the 

 economic effect. My staff, in meeting with the Hells Canyon Alli- 

 ance told them where we see the weaknesses in their logic. 



Mrs. Chenoweth. This is quite amazing. Would you be willing 

 to work with the outfitters on the economic impact? My concern is 

 not only the outfitters, but other landowners and other interested 

 parties on that river have not been dealt with at all. You have not 

 counseled with them. You have not asked their opinion. You have 

 not sought their advice on the economic impact. 



Can you say for the record and for this committee that you would 

 work with the affected landowners and outfitters on that river? 



Mr. Richmond. Yes, Congresswoman Chenoweth. I can. In fact, 

 I have been working very closely with all of the folks concerned, 

 and there were, by the regional forester's direction, only three out- 

 fitters that we were required to review in depth in terms of their 

 situation because the rest of the outfitters in terms of how they re- 



