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doc 2006-9 May 2006 |
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Fifth Annual Report to the Northwest Governors On Expenditures
of the Bonneville Power Administration
to Implement the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife
Program of the Northwest Power and Conservation Council, 1978-2005
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Executive summary
In Fiscal Year 2004, the Bonneville Power Administration spent a total
of $493.6 million, and in Fiscal Year 2005 a total of $576.3 million, to
implement the Council’s Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program.
The program is designed to protect, mitigate and enhance Columbia River
Basin fish and wildlife that have been affected by hydroelectric dams.
The Council’s last report on Bonneville’s fish and wildlife
expenditures was current through Fiscal Year 2003. The current report
includes expenditures through Fiscal Year 2005. The grand total of
Bonneville’s fish and wildlife expenditures, 1978-2005, now stands at
$7.802 billion. Expenditures are provided by Bonneville for this report
and are not separately verified by the Council. Here, in descending order,
is a breakdown of the expenditures, which are detailed further in the
Appendix of this report:
- $2,740,300,000 ($191.0 million in 2004 and 110.8 million in 2005)
for power purchases to meet load requirements in response to required
river operations that reduce hydropower generation.
- $1,571,700,000 ($137.9 million in 2004 and $135.8 million in 2005)
for the Council’s direct program. The 2004 and 2005 totals are for
direct expenditures only and do not include annual expenditures from the
separate capital investment budget. With capital expenditures added,
total direct-program spending for 2004 is $146.4 million, and for 2005
the total is $148.0 million.
For the period 2001-2004, direct program expenditures included a
total of $16,000,000 ($400,000 in 2004 and zero in 2005) in one-time
expenditures for “high priority” and “action plan” projects. These are
included in the total above. The high-priority projects were intended to
bring immediate benefits to all species listed for protection under the
Endangered Species Act in advance of subbasin planning (subbasin plans
were submitted to the Council in 2004 and adopted into the fish and
wildlife program in 2004 and 2005). The “action plan” projects were
intended to bring immediate benefits to ESA listed salmon and steelhead
that were affected by altered hydropower dam operations in the spring
and early summer of 2001, when the flow of the Columbia River was at a
near-record low.
Sorted by type of species, total (1978-2005) expenditures to
implement the direct program are $1,306,861,461 ($96,206,584 in 2004 and
$101,172,351 in 2005) on anadromous fish projects; $219,612,570
($18,899,368 in 2004 and $20,236,591 in 2005) on resident fish projects,
and $175,567,671 ($10,659,908 in 2004 and $13,278,339 in 2005) on
wildlife projects.
- $1,381,500,000 ($21.7 million in 2004 and $182.1 million in 2005) in
forgone revenue, the calculated value of hydropower that could not be
generated because of required river operations to assist fish passage
and improve fish survival, such as water spills at the dams.
- $1,246,300,000 ($85.4 million in 2004 and $89.7 million in 2005) in
fixed expenses for bonds issued by Bonneville to pay for capital
investments in fish-passage facilities at the dams.
- $801,600,000 ($57.2 million in 2004 and $57.9 million in 2005) to
reimburse the U.S. Treasury for the power-generation share of other
federal agency expenditures to mitigate the impact of hydropower on fish
and wildlife. Primarily these reimbursements are paid to the U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife
Service for efforts to improve fish and wildlife survival apart from the
Council’s program, such as operation and maintenance of fish passage
facilities and federal fish hatcheries.
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