Partners
The Council develops the Program by requesting recommendations from the region’s federal and state fish and wildlife agencies, appropriate Indian tribes (those within the basin) and other interested parties and then monitors its implementation by the Bonneville Power Administration, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and its licensees. Numerous other entities also contribute to implementing Program measures either by receiving direct project funding from Bonneville through the Program, providing cost-share to one of these projects, or receiving in-direct funding through Bonneville reimbursement of expenditures of appropriated funds by the Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Below are some of the primary entities that implement the Program: