Public Comments

Title:	Mid-Columbia Coho Restoration Project
Description:	<FONT face="times new roman"><?xml:namespace prefix = o /><o:p> <P class=msonormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="times new roman" color=#000000 size=3><SPAN style="COLOR: black">BPA is preparing an Environmental Impact Statement that analyzes the reintroduction of Coho salmon into the Mid-Columbia River basin tributaries in Chelan and Okanogan counties, Wash. by the Yakama Nation. As mitigation under the Pacific Northwest Electric Power Planning and Conservation Act (Northwest Power Act), BPA proposes to fund the construction of new permanent and temporary facilities for broodstock development, and modification of existing ponds or side channels to serve as semi-natural rearing and acclimation areas for juvenile Coho salmon in the Methow and Wenatchee basins. The reintroduction project also proposes to use existing adult capture facilities, and the Willard and Winthrop National Fish Hatcheries. A reduced production and a no action alternative will also be considered in the EIS. </SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=msonormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="times new roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></P> <P class=msonormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="times new roman" color=#000000 size=3><SPAN style="COLOR: black">The proposal is the culmination of the Mid-Columbia Coho salmon reintroduction feasibility project, which has been ongoing in the Wenatchee and Methow subbasins for over ten years. BPA published an environmental assessment and finding of no significant impact on the feasibility phase of the project in April 1999.</SPAN></FONT></P> <P class=msonormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="times new roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"></SPAN></FONT><FONT color=#000000 size=3> </FONT></P> <P class=msonormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT face="times new roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT color=#810081><FONT color=#000000><FONT size=3><STRONG>public scoping meeting information:</STRONG> </FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/public_affairs/calendar/"><EM><FONT color=#0033ff size=3>www.bpa.gov/corporate/public_affairs/calendar/</FONT></EM></A></FONT></SPAN></FONT></P><FONT face="times new roman"><SPAN style="COLOR: black"><FONT color=#810081><FONT color=#0000ff><FONT color=#0000ff size=1> <P>Comments are numbered consecutively as they are received. breaks in the number sequence result when comments are deleted because they were submitted in error or have inappropriate content (such as spam). if you do not see your comment two business days after you submit it, please contact us at (800) 622-4519.</P></FONT></FONT> <P class=msonormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><FONT size=3><BR></FONT></P></FONT><A title=blocked::http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/public_affairs/calendar/ href="http://www.bpa.gov/corporate/public_affairs/calendar/"></A></SPAN></FONT></o:p></FONT>
Start Date:	7/30/2009
End Date:	9/15/2009
Related information:	http://www.efw.bpa.gov/environmental_services/Document_Library/Mid-Columbia_Coho_Restoration_Project/

Comments for Mid-Columbia Coho Restoration Project