2. $100 MILLION REQUESTED FOR CORPS FISH PROGRAM

The Clinton Administration has requested that $100 million be appropriated
by Congress in Fiscal Year 2000 to fund Army Corps of Engineers projects
aimed at improving salmon survival through the federal Columbia-Snake river
hydroelectric system.

President Clinton’s fiscal year 2000 budget devotes $41 million to structural
improvements at dams to aid adult and juvenile fish passage and $59 million
to continue studies and evaluations for long-term passage improvements
— including …

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