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doc 2005-9 Feb 2005 |
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Fourth Annual Report to the Northwest Governors On Expenditures
of the Bonneville Power Administration
to Implement the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife
Program of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, 1978-2003
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Executive summary
This draft report provides an in-depth accounting and assessment of the
Bonneville Power Administration's fish and wildlife expenditures. The
report also summarizes historical documentation on past expenditures and
includes information on Columbia River fish runs and fisheries.
For Fiscal Year 2003, the Bonneville Power Administration reported
total costs of $506.8 million for its Columbia River Basin fish and
wildlife activities. This brings the grand total, 1978-2003, to $6.37
billion. That amount does not reflect $1.04 billion Bonneville has
received since 1995 for a portion of it's expenditures to improve fish
passage at dams. The credit, which is explained on page 6 of this report,
effectively reduces the grand total to $5.64 billion.
These costs, which were supplied to the Council by Bonneville and not
independently verified by the Council, are detailed in the Appendix of
this report.
- $1,163,400,000 ($140.7 million in 2003) for the Council's direct
program.
- $16,500,000 ($6.5 million in 2003) for ?high priority? and ?action
plan? projects identified by Bonneville. The high-priority projects
were intended to bring immediate benefits to all species listed for
protection under the Endangered Species Act in advance of subbasin
planning. Draft subbasin plans were submitted to the Council in May
2004 and, after public and scientific review, amended into the fish
and wildlife program in late 2004 and early 2005. The ?action plan?
projects were intended to bring immediate benefits to ESA-listed
salmon and steelhead that were affected by altered hydropower dam
operations in the spring and early summer of 2001 to offset impacts
caused by drought.
- $634,100,000 ($52.6 million in 2003) to reimburse the U.S. Treasury
for the power-generation share of other federal agency costs to
mitigate the impact of hydropower on fish and wildlife. Primarily
these reimbursements are paid to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Bureau of Reclamation, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for efforts
to improve fish and wildlife survival apart from the Council's
program, such as operation and maintenance of fish passage facilities
and federal fish hatcheries. Since 1997, Bonneville has funded these
investments directly rather than reimbursed the Treasury for them.
- $1,034,300,000 ($56.7 million in 2003) in payments for bonds issued
by Bonneville to pay for capital investments to improve fish passage
at the dams.
- $2,317,900,000 ($171.1 million in 2003) for power purchases to
replace hydropower that could not be generated because of legally
required river operations that protect migrating fish but reduce
hydropower generation.
- $1,205,400,000 ($79.2 million in 2003) in forgone revenue, the
calculated value of hydropower that could not be sold because of
legally required river operations to assist fish passage and improve
fish survival, such as water spills at the dams. Fish passage was not
the only source of forgone revenue. See page 6 of this report.
- $1,437,754,000 on fish and wildlife, which includes $1,096,601,000
on anadromous fish projects; $183,690,000 on resident fish (those that
don't swim to the ocean); and $157,463,000 on wildlife.
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