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Article: PROTECTION FOR HANFORD REACH IS DEBATED FEDERAL OR LOCAL CONTROL AT CENTER OF HEARING.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- June 23, 1997
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For decades, the last undammed stretch of the Columbia River has been protected from development because it ran through the Hanford Nuclear Reservation.
The 51-mile stretch of river is spawning ground for the Columbia's last healthy chinook salmon run, but with Hanford's mission changing, the Energy Department is getting ready to give up control.
The battle now is over who should oversee and protect this stretch of the river, known as the Hanford Reach - the federal government, or local interests.
A congressional field hearing over the weekend in this small farm town, near a Columbia swollen and surging with early summer runoff, was ...