Legal and Regulatory Updates
Attorney members of NWHA are invited to post legal updates or articles on regulatory issues on this page. Please forward articles to brenna@nwhydro.org for posting.
Recent Updates
- 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.
