Report of the Secretary of the Army
on Civil Works Activities for Fiscal Year 1994
Department of the Army Corps of Engineers
Extract Report of the Walla Walla District
Lower Snake River Fish and Wildlife Compensation Plan, Washington, Oregon, and Idaho
Existing project. The project consists of a series of fish hatcheries, wildlife development areas, and purchase of off-site project lands for fishing and hunting access. The project will compensate for loss of wildlife habitat and anadromous and resident fishery inundated as a result of construction of four multiple purposes dams and reservoirs on the Lower Snake River (Ice Harbor, Lower Monumental, Little Goose, and Lower Granite).
The real estate design memorandum, and feature design memorandums on all hatcheries and satellites, the off-project wildlife lands, and the site selection report have all been approved. A final Environmental Impact Statement was filed with the Council on Environmental Quality on November 2, 1977. The DNFH Expansion; Irrigon, Hagerman, Lyons Ferry, Lookingglass, McCall, Sawtooth, Magic Valley, and Clearwater Hatcheries, including their respective satellite facilities, are all in operation. Transfer actions have been completed for a majority of the facilities, with the remaining scheduled to be transferred by the end of 1997. Fencing is nearly complete at all wildlife development areas. Off-project land acquisition is 100-percent complete. Habitat development continues at many of these sites. Development of fall chinook acclimation facilities and Lookingglass Hatchery water treatment, in accordance with Senate Conference Report (103-672, page 7) has progressed. The compensation plan is 91 percent complete.
Estimated Federal cost for the project is $232,000,000.
Local cooperation. None required.
Operations during fiscal year. New Work: Off-project land acquisition is 100 percent complete. Letter supplements are being prepared for development actions. Hatchery completion contracts are in place for the Powell, Crooked River, Big Canyon, Imnaha, and Wallowa satellite facilities. Transfer actions, whereby the Corps turns real property over to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, are processed for Eagle Lab, Magic Valley, Red River, and Lyons Ferry facilities. A design supplement is in place for correcting water supply deficiencies at Irrigon Hatchery.