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“Congress should have to approve physically breaching the four Lower Snake River dams, and the House should warn against water-level changes that would leave the dams unable to generate hydropower without removing them.”
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“Federal water decisions should protect endangered species while giving affected water suppliers a clear chance to be heard.”
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“The Interior Department should be able to pay up to half of the yearly upkeep costs for added public benefits from certain state-led water storage projects, such as habitat, fish and wildlife, water quality, recreation, and flood control, without requiring repayment.”
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“Eligible surface storage, groundwater storage, and related water infrastructure projects should be able to seek federal support through January 1, 2041, instead of losing access under the earlier deadline.”
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“The House should say the four Lower Snake River dams and the Columbia-Snake River System matter for Pacific Northwest hydropower, home electricity, cargo shipping, wheat exports, fish passage, and the regional economy.”
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“Federal water and restoration actions should still follow the Endangered Species Act, existing Central Valley Project and State Water Project biological opinions, applicable state water law, tribal treaty and water rights, federal trust job tasks to tribes, tribal self-determination rights, and Central Valley environmental and wildlife refuge water obligations.”
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“Federal funds should support Sacramento River Basin projects that restore habitat and floodplains, improve fish passage and screens, modernize hatcheries, remove barriers, help native migratory fish return to tributaries, and pay for the science, permits, construction support, monitoring, and follow-up management needed for that work.”
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“Temporary water transfers should still have to follow state water law, federal law and policy, and interstate water agreements, and they should not create new state water rights or change existing ones.”
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“The House should point to the 2020 federal study that recommended keeping the four Lower Snake River dams while improving hydropower facilities and salmon passage.”
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