With the Senate’s 1999 Energy and Water Development Appropriations bill
heading to conference committee with the House, Senator Gordon Smith, R-Oregon,
is urging his colleagues "retain the Senate-passed funding level for
the Army Corps of Engineers fish and wildlife mitigation measures on the
Columbia River."
But Smith says he would support expanded scientific review fish mitigation
projects.
The Senate bill calls for $95 million in 1999 for the Corps’ Columbia
River Fish