Federal action has PUD hoping for new Rocky Reach license this fall.(Member News)

Bulletin (Northwest Public Power Association), September, 2006

Chelan County PUD expects that two fish-related documents--one from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and one from NOAA Fisheries--are the last major items needed before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) can issue a new operating license for Rocky Reach Dam. It is thought that the two biological opinions may be delivered by November.

In a Final Environmental Impact Statement issued August 4, only minimal changes were proposed by FERC to a Settlement Agreement submitted by all the relicensing parties (local citizens, state and federal agencies, and tribes) back in March. Of approximately 100 items agreed to in the Settlement Agreement, FERC said it would change six.

But while FERC recommended that the PUD scale back some of its...

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