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<H1>Updated, 7 p.m.: Dams would be removed by 2020</H1>
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<H2>State, feds and PacifiCorp agreement scheduled for signing Thursday</H2>
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<DIV id=storytext><SPAN><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,0)">Posted 7 p.m.,
Wednesday: </SPAN>In what is being billed as the largest salmon restoration ever
attempted, a nonbinding agreement to be signed today would remove four
Klamath River dams by the year 2020. The project is expected to cost $450
million and be paid for in part through surcharges to PacifiCorp
customers.<BR><BR>Officials from the states of Oregon and California, the Bush
administration and Portland-based PacifiCorp were expected to sign the agreement
by noon Thursday. They briefed Klamath River Basin stakeholders today at a
meeting in Sacramento. When signed, the dam removal agreement would be
nonbinding until a final agreement is reached, but one PacifiCorp official
lauded the document as “remarkable.”<BR><BR>“Our full expectation and commitment
is to come to a final agreement,” said Dean Brockbank, vice president and
counsel to the PacifiCorp. <STRONG>Read the full story in Thursday's Herald and
News print edition. Check back at breaking news for more
updates.</STRONG><BR><BR><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,0)"><EM><STRONG>Posted
5:05 p.m., Wednesday: </STRONG></EM></SPAN>Four hydroelectric dams on the
Klamath River would be removed by 2025 at a cost of $450 million under an
agreement scheduled to be signed Thursday.</SPAN><BR>
<DIV id=instory> </DIV><SPAN>A press release from the U.S. Department of
the Interior called a planned public announcement Thursday “the first critical
step down a presumptive path toward a historic resolution of Klamath River
resource issues and the Klamath River dams.” <STRONG>Check back later tonight
for more updates and read the full story in Thursday's Herald and News print
edition.</STRONG><BR><BR><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,0)"><EM><STRONG>Posted
2:55 p.m. Wednesday:</STRONG></EM></SPAN> (AP) — Farmers, Indian tribes,
fishermen and state officials have been briefed on a nonbinding agreement for
PacifiCorp to turn over control of Klamath River dams so they can be removed to
help struggling salmon. The briefing from Bush administration officials took
place Wednesday in Sacramento, Calif. A formal announcement is expected
Thursday.<BR><BR>According to a copy obtained by The Associated Press, the
agreement is a roadmap for starting to remove the dams by 2020, contingent on a
favorable cost-benefit analysis, and to allow operations to continue until
then.<BR><BR><SPAN style="COLOR: rgb(128,0,0)"><EM><STRONG>Posted 11:40 a.m.
Wednesday: </STRONG></EM></SPAN>Klamath County Commissioner Bill Brown said
today there is an agreement in principle regarding the removal of four
hydroelectric dams on the Klamath River. Brown restated his opposition to dam
removal — an aspect of the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement — during the
commissioners’ public meeting. He said he does not have the document on the
agreement but expected to have it soon.<BR><BR>The groups and organizations that
crafted the restoration agreement are meeting today in Sacramento. Commissioner
John Elliot is attending the meeting as a representative of the county and said
today while traveling to Sacramento that he had not yet seen a document
concerning dam removal. “That’s going to be the discussion today,” he said.
<STRONG>Look for online updates later today and read the full story in
Thursday's Herald and News print edition.</STRONG></SPAN><BR><BR clear=all>
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