Cathy Tortorici

"This project is a good blending of federal agencies cooperating with each other and private partners on a project where we can bring about significant habitat restoration for a number of species all at one time," said Cathy Tortorici, Columbia River Estuary Coordinator for National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Division. (NOAA Fisheries issues the biological opinions that guide restoration efforts of the BPA, USFWS and the Corps in the lower Columbia related to changes in the system brought about by hydropower and Corps activities).

The authority for the restoration study was obtained through section 536 of the Water Resources Development Act of 2000.

In the President's fiscal year 2005 budget, the Section 536 Program was funded for continuation with $4 million.

Cathy Tortorici, NOAA Fisheries

"This project is a good blending of federal agencies cooperating with each other and private partners on a project where we can bring about significant habitat restoration for a number of species all at one time," said Cathy Tortorici, Columbia River Estuary Coordinator for National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Division. (NOAA Fisheries issues the biological opinions that guide restoration efforts of the BPA, USFWS and the Corps in the lower Columbia related to changes in the system brought about by hydropower and Corps activities).

"This project is a good blending of federal agencies cooperating with each other and private partners on a project where we can bring about significant habitat restoration for a number of species all at one time," said Cathy Tortorici, Columbia River Estuary Coordinator for National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's Fisheries Division. (NOAA Fisheries issues the biological opinions that guide restoration efforts of the BPA, USFWS and the Corps in the lower Columbia related to changes in the system brought about by hydropower and Corps activities).