COLUMBIA RIVER BASIN FISH AND WILDLIFE 

 PROGRAM— SALMON RECOVERY 



WEDNESDAY, MARCH 15, 1995 



U.S. Senate, 

 Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, 



Committee on Appropriations, 



Washington, DC. 

 The subcommittee met at 2:05 p.m., in room SD-192, Dirksen 

 Senate Office Building, Hon. Mark O. Hatfield (chairman) presid- 

 ing. 



Present: Senators Hatfield, Gorton, Bennett, Bums, Johnston, 

 and Murray. 



Also present: Senators Stevens, Baucus, Craig, Kempthome, and 

 Murkowski. 



OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT AND BUDGET 



STATEMENT OF ALICE RIVLIN, DIRECTOR 



ACCOMPANIED BY T.J. GLAUTHIER, ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR FOR NATU- 

 RAL RESOURCES, ENERGY, AND SCIENCE 



statement of HON. MARK O. HATFIELD 



Senator Hatfield. The meeting will come to order. 



Today the Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, the 

 Appropriations Committee, will receive testimony fi'om a variety of 

 witnesses on issues relating to the Bonneville Power Administra- 

 tion and Columbia River basin. 



The importance of these interrelated topics to the Pacific North- 

 west cannot be overstated, and, therefore, I have invited all my 

 Senate colleagues from the region and Alaska to participate in to- 

 day's proceedings. 



The Columbia River is the stuff from which legends are made. 

 The story of the Columbia is the story of the Pacific Northwest. 



The river's reputation has reverberated through the American 

 mind, first as a river of unimagined natural wealth, teeming with 

 salmon, steelhead, and other species; as a river whose bounty sus- 

 tained generations of native Americans over thousands of years; 

 and later as a river whose resources and might were harnessed by 

 man to help build the economic and social structures of the 20th 

 century. 



Perhaps it is inevitable that these two episodes of the history of 

 the Columbia basin would someday collide in the American mind, 

 and that the two symbols representing these eras, the salmon and 



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