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NWHA Comments on NEPA Implementing Regulations Revisions Phase 2 - September 2023 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Comments in Response to CEQ Request for Information Regarding Columbia River Salmon and Other Native Fish Restoration - July 2023 Click here to read the comments. WHA Signs onto Supreme Court Amicus Brief Regarding Section 401 Rules- March 2023 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Signs onto Supreme Court Amicus Brief Regarding Section 401 Rules- February 2023 Click here to read the comments. NWHA and NHA File Comments with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Permits for Incidental Take of Eagles and Eagle Nests- December 2022 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Files Comments with Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife on Final Draft of Fish Passage Rules Revision- September 2022 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Comments on ESA's Proposed Experimental Populations Regulations- August 2022 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Supports Comments on EPA's Proposed Section 401 Rule- August 2022 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Supports Licensing Reform Proposal through Uncommon Dialogue- July 2022 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Signs onto Amicus Brief to 9th Circuit Court Regarding Clean Water Act Section 401- December 2021 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Files Comments with U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and National Marine Fisheries Service Regarding Proposed Recission of Habitat Definition Rule and Critical Habitat Exclusion Rule- November 2021 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Files Comments with Oregon Water Resources Department about Conversion of Water Rights- September 2021 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Supports NHA Comment Letter to EPA Regarding Clean Water Act Section 401 Certification Rule- August 2021 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Files Comment Letter to Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife about Fish Passage Rules Revision- May 2021 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Files Amicus Brief to Oregon Supreme Court over Hydropower Water Rights - March 2021 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Supports Amici Brief to the Fourth Circuit Court Involving CWA 401 - December 2020 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Supports Comments on FERC's Dam Safety Notice of Proposed Rulemaking- September 2020 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Files Comment Letter with EPA regarding Total Maximum Daily Load for Temperature in the Columbia and Lower Snake Rivers- August 2020 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Supports Amici Brief to the Second Circuit Court Involving Waiver of CWA 401 - May 2020 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Jointly Files with NHA on EPA Regulations on Hydropower Facilities- May 2020 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Comments on USDA's Alaska Roadless Rule's Impacts on Hydropower- December 2019 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Comments on EPA Section 401 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking- October 2019 Click here to read the comments. NWHA Supports NHA's Reinvigorating Hydropower Report- April 2019 Click here to read the report. NWHA Comments on Oregon State Resolution Supporting Pumped Storage Hydropower- February 2019 Click here to read the comment letter. NWHA Comments on Washington State Legislation Towards a Clean Energy System- January 2019 Click here to read the comment letter. NWHA Comments on Storage as a Transmission Asset to the CALISO- September 2018 Click here to read the comment letter.
