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Article: The implications of salmon recovery for the Bonneville Power Administration and the region.(Colloquium: Who Runs the River?)
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- Environmental Law
- Article date:
- March 22, 1995
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I am the General Counsel of the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), and I am here to talk about the opinions in Northwest Resource Information Center v. Northwest Power Planning Council (NRIC)(1) and Idaho Department of Fish & Game v. National Marine Fisheries Service (IDFG).(2) This sort of reminds me of the story Lincoln told about the man who was about to be ridden out of town on a rail, tarred and feathered. He said, "if it were not for the honor, he would just as soon pass."
The question is: Who runs the Columbia River? Of course, the Bureau of Reclamation owns and operates two of the major federal dams on the Columbia, and the Corps of Engineers owns and ...