§544k Tributary Rivers and Streams

Summary

Makes certain tributaries and streams of the Columbia River follow the same rules as rivers in the National Wild and Scenic Rivers System about getting licenses, permits, exemptions, and building water projects. This includes: any Columbia tributary that runs through a special management area (unless a project would not directly harm the area's scenic, cultural, recreational, or natural resources); any river or stretch through the scenic area that a State has listed or is studying as wild, scenic, or recreational (unless the State sets conditions that allow the project); the Wind River in Washington for at least three years after the later of final approval of the Gifford Pinchot National Forest Plan or when the Secretary and President complete their reports to Congress about the river; the Hood River, Oregon, and a segment of the Little White Salmon, Washington (from Willard National Fish Hatchery to the Columbia River), if a project would store or divert water using anything other than a dam or diversion that existed on November 17, 1986. These rules do not apply to parts of tributaries that flow through or border Indian reservations. They also do not affect river segments already designated or being studied under the national Wild and Scenic Rivers Act.