Acronym or
abbreviation

Full name or definition

A3

Breach four Snake River dams and restore Snake R. to free-flowing conditions

AFISH

Anadromous Fish Appendix to the Corps’ Lower Snake River Juvenile Salmonid Migration Feasibility Study

BPA

Bonneville Power Administration

CART

Categorical Regression Tree

CBFWA

Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority

Corps

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

CRI

Cumulative Risk Initiative

CRiSP

Columbia River Salmon Passage model (developed by BPA)

CRITFC

Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission

Ratio of post-Bonneville Dam survival of transported fish : post-Bonneville survival of nontransported fish

EDT

Ecosystem Diagnosis and Treatment

EIS

Environmental Impact Statement

ESA

Endangered Species Act

ESSA

Environmental and Social Systems Analysts

FLUSH

Fish Leaving Under Several Hypotheses (passage model developed by States and Tribes)

FCRPS

Federal Columbia River Power System

IDFG

Idaho Department of Fish and Game

ISAB

Independent Scientific Advisory Board

ISRP

Independent Scientific Review Panel

I. T.

“Implementation Team” (Regional Forum for the Implementation of the 1995 Biological Opinion)

NEPA

National Environmental Policy Act

NMFS

National Marine Fisheries Service

NPPC

Northwest Power Planning Council

ODFW

Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife

PATH

Plan for Analyzing and Testing Hypotheses

SRP

Scientific Review Panel for PATH

USFS

U.S. Forest Service

USFWS

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

USGS-BRD

U.S. Geological Survey-Biological Resources Division

WDFW

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife