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color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 36px; line-height: 38px; font-family: Unify Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial Nova, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Plan to remove four dams on lower Klamath River clears regulatory hurdle</h1><div class="ydpb0c32452gnt_ar_by" style="margin: 12px 6px 0px 0px; font-style: normal; font-weight: 700; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Unify Sans, Helvetica Neue, Arial Nova, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Gillian Flaccus</div><div class="ydpb0c32452gnt_ar_pb" style="display: inline; margin: 1px 0px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 16px; line-height: 20px; font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Associated Press</div></div><div><br></div></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div><p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">PORTLAND — A proposal to bring down four hydroelectric dams near the California-Oregon border cleared a major regulatory hurdle Thursday, setting the stage for the largest dam demolition project in U.S. history to save imperiled migratory salmon.</p><p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission action comes after the demolition proposal almost fell apart last summer, but then a new agreement and additional funding revived it. Thursday's ruling will allow the utility that runs the dams, PacifiCorp, to transfer its hydroelectric license jointly to the nonprofit Klamath River Renewal Corporation, Oregon and California.</p><p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Regulators still must approve the actual surrender of the license. Dam removal could start in 2023.</p><p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Tribes on the lower Klamath River that have watched salmon struggle applauded the decision. Salmon are at the heart of the culture, beliefs and diet of a half-dozen regional tribes, including the Yurok and Karuk — both parties to the agreement — and they have suffered deeply from that loss.</p><p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;"><strong class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_al" style="margin-right: 3px;">Previous coverage:</strong><a href="https://www.redding.com/story/news/environment/2021/02/07/gop-idaho-congressman-unveils-plan-breach-dams-save-salmon/4431274001/" data-t-l=":b|e|inline click|${u}" class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_a" style="color: rgb(48, 48, 48); text-decoration-line: underline; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: rgb(0, 152, 254);" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">GOP Idaho congressman unveils plan to breach dams, save salmon</a></p><p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">This week, California accepted a petition to add Klamath-Trinity River spring chinook salmon to the state's endangered species list.</p><p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">The aging dams were built before current environmental regulations and essentially cut the 253-mile-long river in half for migrating salmon, whose numbers have been plummeting.</p><p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Coho salmon from the river are listed as threatened under federal and California law, and their population has fallen anywhere from 52% to 95%. Spring chinook salmon, once the Klamath Basin’s largest run, has dwindled by 98%.</p><p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Fall chinook, the last to persist in any significant numbers, have been so meager in the past few years that the Yurok Tribe canceled fishing for the first time in memory. In 2017, they bought fish at a grocery store for their annual salmon festival.</p><p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">Another tribe, the Karuk Tribe, said in a statement that the regulators' decision “reflects the hard work of our partnership with PacifiCorp, California, Oregon, and the Yurok Tribe. After this year’s massive fish kill, we need dam removal more than ever."</p>The dams don't store agricultural water, aren't used for flood control and aren’t part of the 200,000-acre Klamath Project, an irrigation project further north that straddles the Oregon-California border. Removing the structures would affect homeowners who live around man-made lakes created by the dams.<p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">If the dams remained, PacifiCorp would likely have to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to retrofit the structures to comply with today's environmental laws. As it is, the utility has said the electricity generated by the dams no longer makes up a significant part of its power portfolio.</p><p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">The demolition proposal foundered last summer after regulators initially balked at allowing PacifiCorp to completely exit the project.</p><p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">A new plan unveiled in November appears to address regulators' concerns that the nonprofit entity overseeing the demolition would struggle if there were any cost overruns or liability issues.</p><p class="ydp4b2e5e2cgnt_ar_b_p" style="margin: 14px 0px; color: rgb(48, 48, 48); font-family: Georgia Pro, Georgia, Droid Serif, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; text-decoration-style: solid; text-decoration-color: currentcolor;">The new plan makes Oregon and California equal partners in the demolition with the Klamath River Renewal Corporation and adds $45 million to the project’s $450 million budget. The states and PacifiCorp, which is owned by billionaire Warren Buffett’s company Berkshire Hathaway, will each provide one-third of the additional funds.</p></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>