EIS-0397: Draft Environmental Impact Statement

Lyle Falls Fish Passage Project

Office of NEPA Policy and Compliance

March 1, 2008
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Lyle Falls Fish Passage Project 

The underlying need for the project is to improve fish passage to habitat in the upper part of the watershed. Funding from BPA would serve to provide off-site mitigation for the effects of the federal Columbia River hydroelectric facilities on fish populations by improving fish passage at Lyle Falls. While the fish passage issues at Lyle Falls were not caused by the hydroelectric facilities, this project would help BPA meet its mitigation responsibilities and potentially increase overall fish production in the Columbia Basin by enhancing fish passage into the Klickitat subbasin.