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ing fish populations to support the release of such quantities of water. Thus, while 

 the government, through NMFS, the Corps of Engineers, BPA and BOR, is using 

 untested methods to try to save anadromous fish, it may well be doing so at the 

 expense of the resident fish of Lake Roosevelt upon which the Spokane Tribe is de- 

 pendent both for recreational and economic reasons. Even if the results for the Lake 

 fish are not as dire as we fear, any damage, if reversible, will certainly take years 

 to correct. The UCUT tribes respectfully request funds to study the effects of recent 

 mitigation efforts on the fish in Lake Roosevelt, as well resident fish in the Box 

 Canyon of the Pend Oreilles River, Lake Couer d'Alene and the Idaho portion of the 

 Kootenai River. This kind of study will benefit not just the Tribe but all of the peo- 

 ple living in the region. 



We have two additional requests. The first is that an appropriate Committee of 

 the Congress hold hearings on this subject, preferably in Spokane, Washington, and 

 the second is for permission to submit additional information for the record of this 

 hearing. 



Senator Hatfield. Let me say to both of you, Mr. Cavanagh and 

 Mr. Seyler, we will submit some questions to you that we would 

 have used this time to ask, so you better get on your way and get 

 out to the airport. 



Mr. Seyler. Thank you very much. 



Senator Hatfield. Thank you. 



Tacoma Public Utilities 

 statement of mark crisson, director of utilities 



Senator Hatfield. Let us go back now to the panel as we had 

 originally announced it. Mr. Mark Crisson, the director of utilities 

 at Tacoma Public Utilities. 



Mr. Crisson. Yes; thank you, Mr. Chairman. Good afternoon. I 

 would begin by requesting that my entire statement be entered 

 into the record of this hearing. What I would like is to present an 

 abbreviated version of that in my records this afternoon. 



Senator Hatfield. Thank you. 



Mr. Crisson. I am Mark Crisson, the director of utilities for the 

 city of Tacoma. I am here today as a spokesman for both my utility, 

 which is among Bonneville's 10 largest customers, as well as over 

 100 other consumer-owned utilities in the Northwest. 



Public power has a huge stake in the outcome of your hearing 

 on the costs of salmon recovery, and Bonneville Power Administra- 

 tion's future competitiveness. 



Since the first Federal dams were built in the 1930's, the cus- 

 tomers of consumer-owned utilities have relied on Bonneville as 

 their major supplier of power. 



Most public utilities receive all of their wholesale power from 

 Bonneville, and even those of us with our own generation rely on 

 Bonneville to supply a large share of our load. In our case, Mr. 

 Chairman, we receive about 50 percent of our power requirements 

 from Tacoma, about 300 megawatts annually. 



This partnership between the Federal system and the public has 

 been a cornerstone of our region's prosperity and growth. 



Over the past months, a number of us have contributed our time 

 and energy to working with Bonneville to try to sort out some of 

 the issues that threaten its future competitiveness, and you have 

 heard a lot about that from Administrator Hardy, but we keep com- 

 ing back to one overriding concern, and that is the impacts of what 

 we view to be radical salmon recovery measures, which are threat- 

 ening to put Bonneville out of business. 



