ELR Citation: 41 ELR 20247
No(s). 01-00640 (D. Or. Aug 2, 2011)

A district court held that NOAA Fisheries' 2008/2010 biological opinion (BiOp) for the Federal Columbia River Power System is arbitrary and capricious under the ESA. In the BiOp it issued to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, NOAA Fisheries concluded that the op...