On the hook (too)

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On the hook (too)

• for more Anadromous Fish, Federal Licensing and
  the HCP

Julie Keil, Director Hydropower Licensing and
Water Rights Portland General Electric
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What are we doing?

• Participating in the DBBCs development of an HCP

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Why are we doing that?

• Supportive of the successful implementation of
  the new 50 year license for the Pelton Round
  Butte Project
• Co-owned by PGE and the CTWS
• Largest project inside of Oregon
• High economic value to the Tribes and to PGEs
  customers

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New License Terms

• Significant Fisheries and WQ Measures
• Trout Creek Habitat
• Lower River Gravel
• Round Butte Hatchery
• Selective Water Withdrawal and salmon/steelhead
  reintroduction

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Selective Water Withdrawal and Reintroduction

• 100 million investment
• Requires construction of new intake tower and
  fish screening/collection facilities capable of
  handling 6000 cfs
• Reintroduction of steelhead to historic habitats

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Regulatory Drivers

• Federal Power Act
• Clean Water Act
• Endangered Species Act
• Oregon State Law

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Federal Power Act Provisions

• Section 18
• Section 4(e)
• Section 10(j)

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Clean Water Act

• Section 401 Certification
• Reasonable assurance

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State Law provisions

• ORS Chapter 543A
• Fish Passage and Screening statutes

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Relationship to the HCP

• PGE and Tribes limited responsibilities for
  upstream conditions
• Improved habitatimproved chance of successful
  reintroduction
• The political realities