[3] Spending For West Coast Chinook Tops ESA Expenditures By Federal Agencies
Federal agencies spent more than $161 million on ESA-listed West Coast chinook stocks in FY 2004, out of a total $1.2 billion funded for ESA activities, according to an annual report released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Department. ESA expenditures accounted for another $205 million in spending by state agencies.
Endangered and threatened steelhead stocks ranked second in spending by the feds, at more than $117 million, while the $43 million spent on the Steller sea lion ranked third in spending on species. Of the 10 listed species with the highest expenditures, more than half were salmon, steelhead or bull trout stocks.
The agencies spent more than $40 million on threatened Snake River spring/summer chinook alone, along with more than $32 million on bull trout, $28 million each on Snake River Basin and middle Columbia River steelhead, and about $27 million on Snake River fall chinook.
Federal agencies spent another $24 million on Puget Sound chinook, more than $23 million on coastal Oregon and California coho salmon, and more than $20 million on upper Columbia spring chinook. They also spent more than $17 million on Snake River sockeye.
According to the report, BPA outgunned any other federal agency when it came to spending on endangered species in 2004, adding about $309 million, beating out NOAA's $197 million and USFWS' $217 million.
But that didn't include Bonneville's 2004 forgone revenues and power purchases required to meet BiOp requirements for ESA-listed fish, nor the cost of the fish and wildlife program.
BPA spokesman Mike Hansen said when those factors were included, along with the fish credit, FY 2004 fish and wildlife spending by the power-marketing agency totaled $424 million. He said the total went up to $518.4 million in FY 2005, and is projected to cost $576 million in FY 2006. -B. R.
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