Sec. 8. Authorization and study of salmon recovery
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Congress hereby determines that the Secretary of the Army may remove the 4 lower Snake River dams. The Secretary of the Army, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of the Interior, and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, shall re-evaluate and update the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' Final Lower Snake River Juvenile Salmon Migration Feasibility Report/Environmental Impact Statement (February 2002) pursuant to new information. The updated feasibility study shall— take into consideration the results of the studies and analyses carried out under this Act; and incorporate and address, at a minimum— current and expected future climate change impacts on Columbia and Snake River salmon and steelhead populations and their habitat; replacement of the 4 lower Snake River dams’ average energy output (not nameplate capacity) with clean renewable energy resources, including energy efficiency and conservation; options for keeping currently irrigated acreage intact and under irrigation in a dam removal scenario; costs associated with Lower Granite Dam reservoir sediment/flood risk mitigation in a non-dam-removal scenario;
Passive Use Values associated with both dam removal and non-dam-removal scenarios; and alternate methods for removing the 4 lower Snake River dams in addition to the method analyzed in the 2002 environmental impact statement, including full dam removal and removing or notching the dams’ concrete portions. The Secretary of the Army shall— complete the re-evaluation and update and submit a report thereon to Congress within 24 months after the date of enactment of this Act; include in the report a determination of engineering options and costs; and submit the results of the re-evaluation and update (including such determination of engineering options and costs) to peer review generally in accordance with section 2034 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2007 ( 33 U.S.C. 2343 ) to determine the accuracy of the preferred engineering options and costs.
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