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The Columbia River Basin’s Fish Passage Center (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Feb. 23, 2007
Report Number RS22414
Report Type Report
Authors Nic Lane, Resources, Science, and Industry Division; Adam Vann, American Law Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

Senate and conference committee reports (S.Rept. 109-84 and H.Rept. 109-275)on the 2006 Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act (P.L. 109-103)instructed BPA to cease funding the FPC and transfer the FPC's functions to otherexisting entities, and BPA responded by determining that it would transfer the FPCfunctions to two entities. A number of organizations sued to block transfer of the FPC'sfunctions, and on January 24, 2007, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit thecourt ruled that BPA's decision to transfer the FPC's functions violated theAdministrative Procedure Act.