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January 17, 2002

VANCOUVER, Washington -- Members of the Northwest Power Planning Council Wednesday re-elected Larry Cassidy of Vancouver, Washington, chairman of the four-state energy and fish and wildlife planning agency. Judi Danielson of Boise was elected vice chair.

Each will serve for one year. The current term as chairman will be Cassidy's third consecutive year in that position. Wednesday, prior to the vote on the leadership positions, the Council voted to amend its bylaws to remove the two-term limit on service as Council chair.

Cassidy, who was appointed to the the Council by Washington Governor Gary Locke in 1998, also is Locke's cabinet-level appointee to the state Salmon Recovery Funding Board. A 37-year resident of Vancouver, Cassidy was a member of the Washington State Game Commission from 1973 to 1985, serving four years as chairman. He served on the John Day/Snake River Regional Advisory Committee for the Department of Interior and holds life memberships in Trout Unlimited and the Northwest Steelheaders and is a member of the Fly Fishing Federation and the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation. He also has served as the National Vice President of Trout Unlimited and as President of the Association of Northwest Steelheaders.

Judi Danielson was appointed to the Council in 2001 by Idaho Governor Dirk Kempthorne. Danielson served three full terms in the Idaho Senate, most recently as Senate Majority Caucus Chairman and Vice-Chair of the Senate Resources and Environment Committee. She also served as chair of the Western Legislative Forestry Task Force and as a member of the Public Lands Subcommittee of the Council of State Governments-West. She played a key role in the development of Idaho's proposal for state management of federal forest lands. She also served in the Idaho House of Representatives from 1988 to 1994.

The Council is an agency of the states of Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington and is directed by the Northwest Power Act of 1980 with preparing a program to protect, mitigate and enhance fish and wildlife of the Columbia River Basin that have been affected by hydropower while also assuring the region an adequate, efficient, economical and reliable power supply.

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