Theodore M.
Of course, the Corps was authorized to study Chief Joseph by a resolution to
review the 308 report and see if a dam should be built there, but I don't really
know--I'd have to check up on why the Corps was proposing to build Chief
Joseph. I really don't know why because it's just purely a power project.
Of course, the original 308 report-
-had all those projects in-
-had all those including Coulee-
-including Grand Coulee.
That's right.
Well, and just like the original 308 report on the Tennessee got the whole TVA
Valley Authority] system laid out,-but the Corps didn't build all
of those projects. They didn't build them just because they get in there first.
Resource development isn playing football.
Yes.
So that was the point that the Department of the Interior made and that the
Bureau of Reclamation was
Well,
-and so it was a continuation of that struggle based on bureaucratic power
politics. The agency that builds a project has a lot of money to spend and a lot
of people to hire and a lot of power. The argument on Hells Canyon was about
the same between the Corps and the Bureau. The Bureau had been working in
the Snake River basin since 1902. The Minidoka project was one of the first
reclamation projects. Then there is the Boise project, and the Vale
project-those are some of the original reclamation projects. In recent years the
Bureau continued to work in Idaho and they built Anderson Ranch Dam and
they built Palisades. Then the Corps came in and wanted to build Lucky Peak
for flood control, and this was right in the middle of the Boise project. But
there wasn't any irrigation; it was a flood control dam, but it had to be
operated in coordination with the Bureau's projects.
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