The House Resources Committee next week is
expected to approve a revised bill creating a new
federal funding program to help Northwest
irrigation districts install fish screens to
reduce salmon losses..
Rep. Peter DeFazio, D-Ore., the measure’s author,
and Rep. John Doolittle, R-Calif., chairman of the
Water and Power Subcommittee, have agreed to
expand the program to California and to shift its
administration to the Department of Interior from
the Army Corps of Engineers, as …
