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Columbia/Snake Inland Waterway by Reed Burkholder Breaching Dams to Save Idaho's Salmon & Steelhead - December 31, 1995

	Waterway Costs	Waterway User Fees	Public6
8 dams and locks1	426,721,000	0	426,721,000
Dredging the shipping channel2	8,000,000	0	8,000,000
Replace broken Ice Harbor lock gate3	7,500,000	0	7,500,000
Operation and Maintenance4	9,134,000	0	9,134,000
Salmon-loss mitigation-
Lower Snake River Compensation3 (hatcheries)1996	8,000,000	0	8,000,000
Columbia River Juvenile Fish3 for 1996	52,000,000	0	52,000,000
New Bonneville Lock (1993)5	329,000,000	(a)	329,000,000

¹ source: Bonneville Power Administration Financial Summary, 1991. These costs are listed on page 35 as "Nonreimbursable-Navigation" Allocations for plant Investment.
² Budget of the United States Government, Fiscal Year 1993, Appendix One, pg. 411
³ Synopsis of the Walla Walla District 1996 budget, Corps of Engineers
⁴ A Congressional Budget Office Study, May 1992 "Paying for Highways, Airways, and Waterways: How Can Users Be Charged?" page 55
⁵ 1992 The Great Waterway, The Columbia Snake River System, page 53
⁶ Paid for by the public with U.S. Treasury funds through the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

(a) 50% of the Bonneville lock was funded by the Inland Waterways Trust Fund. Receipts from the Columbia Snake from the Inland Waterways Fuel Tax have never exceeded $507,000, the receipts for 1994(estimate based upon ton/miles). The U.S. Treasury funded the other 50%.