An estimated $180 million in "unspent" capital investment
funds will be used to benefit fish and wildlife beyond the year 2001, not
redirected to fund other mitigation projects during the current budget
period as the chairmen for the four Lower Columbia treaty tribes had requested.
That’s the conclusion offered to the tribes by Bonneville Power Administration
administrator Judith Johansen.
The chairmen of the four Lower Columbia treaty tribes in October asked
that …