7. WAHLUKE SLOPE PLAN DISCUSSED

A proposed study by the National Academy of Sciences of the north slope
of the Columbia River’s Hanford Reach this week was opposed by federal
officials, who said it would delay management changes needed to protect
salmon.
A bill by Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., who supports development of some
of the so-called Wahluke Slope for irrigated agriculture, would mandate
a two-year study of potential land uses for the 90,000 acres and halt a
plan by Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson to have the

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