Fulfilling the Parity Promise: A Perspective on Scientific Proof, Economic Cost, and Indian Treaty Rights in the Approval of the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Program

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Environmental Law

Journal Abbreviation

Env't L.

Abstract

This article, written as a kind of brief to the Northwest Power Planning Council as it was considering recommendations for the Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Program, argued that Congress expected the Council to defer to the recommendations of the region's fish and wildlife agencies and Indian tribes, which had submitted joint comprehensive program recommendations. The article examines several statutory provisions that produced this conclusion, a position which was largely affirmed by the Ninth Circuit in its decision in Northwest Resource Information Center v. Northwest Power Planning Council in 1994 (35 F.3d 1371).

First Page

103

Last Page

159

Publication Date

1982

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