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1. GAO: ROAD FISH PASSAGE TO TAKE $375 MILLION, DECADES
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Tuesday, September 09, 2003 (PST) |
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Federal agencies estimate that efforts to restore fish passage through a
maze of some 122,000 miles of roads on federal lands in Oregon and
Washington "may ultimately cost over $375 million and take decades,"
according to a General Accounting Office report issued Monday.
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2. 20-YEAR SNAKE DREDGING PLAN OFFERED FOR REVIEW
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Tuesday, September 09, 2003 (PST) |
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Maintenance dredging in the lower Snake River -- stalled last year in
large part because of feared impacts on migrating salmon and steelhead
-- will have to wait another year while the Corps of Engineers puts
final touches on a plan expected to guide the process for the next 20
years.
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3. CORPS SOON TO RELEASE CHANNEL DEEPENING ASSESSMENT
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Tuesday, September 09, 2003 (PST) |
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The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said it expects to release in
mid-December an assessment of the biological effects that deepening the
Columbia River shipping channel by three feet from Portland to Astoria
may have on 13 listed species of salmon, steelhead and trout.
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