In Fiscal Year 2002, the Bonneville Power Administration spent a total of $412.3 million including $160.4 million in hydropower operations, on Columbia River Basin fish and wildlife. This brings the grand total of Bonneville's fish and wildlife expenditures, 1978-2002, to $6,181,500,000.
These expenditures, which were provided to the Council by Bonneville and are detailed in Appendix A of this report, include:
- $1.15 billion ($137.1 million in 2002) for the Council's direct program.
- $10 million ($7.1 million in 2002) in one-time expenditures for "high priority" and "action plan" projects. The high-priority projects were intended to bring immediate benefits to all species listed for protection under the Endangered Species Act in advance of subbasin planning. The ?action plan? projects were intended to bring immediate benefits to ESA-listed salmon and steelhead that were affected by altered hydropower dam operations in the spring and early summer of 2001.
- $634 million ($51.1 million in 2002) to reimburse the U.S. Treasury for the power-generation share of other federal agency costs to mitigate the impact of hydropower on fish and wildlife. Primarily these reimbursements are paid to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service for efforts to improve fish and wildlife survival apart from the Council's program, such as operation and maintenance of fish passage facilities and federal fish hatcheries.
- $1.01 billion in fixed expenses (interest, amortization and depreciation) for bonds issued by Bonneville to the US Treasury, and for Corps and Reclamation appropriations that BPA repays to Treasury, to pay for both capital offsite mitigation in the region and for capital investments at the dams.
- $2.27 billion ($147.8 million in 2002) for power purchases to meet load requirements in response to required river operations that reduce hydropower generation.
- $1.1 billion ($12.6 million in 2002) in forgone revenue, the calculated value of hydropower that could not be sold because of required river operations to assist fish passage and improve fish survival, such as water spills at the dams.
