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THE DAILY ASTORIAN • WEDNESDAY, APRIL 12, 2017
WORLD IN BRIEF
Associated Press
United pledges to review policies
on removal of passengers
CHICAGO — After people were horrified by video
of a passenger getting dragged off a full United Express
flight by airport police, the head of United’s parent company
said the airline was reaching out to the man to “resolve this
situation.”
Hours later on Monday, his tone turned defensive. He
described the man as “disruptive and belligerent.”
By Tuesday afternoon, almost two days after the Sunday eve-
ning confrontation in Chicago, CEO Oscar Munoz issued his
most contrite apology yet as details emerged about the man seen
on cellphone videos recorded by other passengers at O’Hare
Airport.
“No one should ever be mistreated this way,” said Munoz,
who also pledged to conduct a wide-ranging review of company
policies.
The passenger was identified as physician David Dao, 69,
of Elizabethtown, Kentucky, who was convicted more than a
decade ago of felony charges involving his prescribing of drugs
and spent years trying to regain his medical license.
Bill seeks to allow tribes to kill
salmon-eating sea lions
SPOKANE, Wash. — Some Northwest Indian tribes would be
allowed to kill a limited number of sea lions that prey on endan-
gered salmon in the Columbia River under a bill introduced in
Congress.
The bipartisan bill was introduced last weekend by U.S.
House members Jaime Herrera Beutler, a Washington Republi-
can, and Kurt Schrader, an Oregon Democrat.
If passed, the bill would allow the Warm Springs, Uma-
tilla, Yakama, and Nez Perce tribes to kill some sea lions that
are decimating endangered salmon runs during their return
from the ocean to inland spawning grounds. Currently only the
states of Oregon, Washington and Idaho can kill sea lions along
the river.
Last year, approximately 190 sea lions killed over 9,500 adult
spring chinook within sight of Bonneville Dam, according to
the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission in Portland,
Oregon.
That represented a 5.8 percent loss of the 2016 spring chinook
run in just a quarter mile from Bonneville Dam, the commission
said. The federal government estimated that up to 45 percent of
the 2014 spring chinook run was potentially lost to sea lions in
the 145 river miles between the Columbia River estuary and Bon-
neville Dam.
“The spring chinook loss, coupled with the growing sea lion
population, has placed us in an emergency situation,” said Leland
Bill, chairman of the commission.
Sea lion populations have surged since the passage of the
Marine Mammal Protection Act in 1972. There were about
30,000 California sea lions when the act passed, but the popula-
tion has since grown to over 300,000.
Oregon to spare 60,000
voters from inactive status
SALEM — In Oregon — where its first-in-the-nation auto-
matic-voter registration system has been hailed as a pioneer in
knocking down voter-access barriers — it takes just five years of
failing to participate in an election before a registered voter gets
knocked from the active voter rolls and no longer receives a bal-
lot in the mail.
Roughly 400,000 registered Oregonian voters have been
flagged as inactive at some point in time, a number that this year
is expected to grow by another 30,000 who registered during the
2012 general election when President Barack Obama was up for
re-election.
For Secretary of State Dennis Richardson, five years isn’t
long enough. So this year, he’s doubling that timeline to
10 years.
Richardson, the state’s first Republican secretary of state
in more than 30 years and the first Republican to hold a state-
wide elected office in 14 years, says that will immediately
preserve the statuses of those soon-to-be-inactive voters this
year. The change will also be applied retroactively, potentially
reactivating another 30,000 or so currently inactive voters
by leveraging DMV databases that Richardson’s agency
already uses to administer the so-called Oregon Motor Voter
program.
“This change will protect or restore the voting rights of Ore-
gonians serving our country on military deployments, college
students and voters frustrated with the political system,” said
Richardson, who made the announcement during his first press
conference Tuesday at the state Capitol in Salem.
Dim hope for Trump-Russia
rapport as Tillerson visits Moscow
MOSCOW — Early expectations of an easy rapport
between the Trump administration and Russia are crashing
into reality as U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has a
fraught meeting in Moscow beset by escalating allegations over
Syria.
The first Trump Cabinet official to visit Russia, Tillerson is on
a thus-far-futile mission to persuade Russian President Vladimir
Putin to abandon support for Syrian President Bashar Assad. The
fallout from Assad’s chemical attack last week and the U.S. air-
strikes that followed have plunged the United States and Russia
into tensions rarely seen since the Cold War.
As Tillerson arrived in Moscow, President Donald Trump
declared Assad “an animal.”
“Frankly, Putin is backing a person that’s truly an evil person.
I think it’s very bad for Russia,” Trump told the Fox Business
Network. “I think it’s very bad for mankind.”
Tillerson planned to meet today with Foreign Minister Sergey
Lavrov, a seasoned diplomat whose strident defense of Putin’s
agenda has frustrated several previous U.S. secretaries of state.
It was unclear whether Putin, who typically doesn’t announce
high-level meetings in advance, would grant Tillerson an audi-
ence while he is in Russia.
Port: Knight said the Port is planning to appeal DEQ fines
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up cost overruns on the Pier 3 storm-
water-treatment system. In 2014,
the agency was required by the state
Department of Environmental Quality
to better treat stormwater because too
much copper runoff from the Port’s
property was entering the Columbia
River.
Before seeking bids, Port staff
projected it would cost $1.5 million
to build a stormwater-treatment sys-
tem on Pier 3. The Port Commis-
sion, with opposition from Fulton and
Hunsinger, voted to award the proj-
ect to Conway Construction for $1.83
million.
Including pumps, consulting and
other ancillary costs not included in
the original bid, the cost of the proj-
ect was nearing $2.25 million by the
end of January. The system, still not
operational, has fallen months behind
a July deadline from the state, with
staff blaming bad weather, errant fish
waste and surprise underground pipes
discovered during excavation.
In the dark
Fulton and Hunsinger sent letters
Photos by Danny Miller/The Daily Astorian
LEFT: Commissioner Stephen Fulton speaks during a Port of Astoria Commission meeting. MIDDLE: Com-
missioner Bill Hunsinger speaks during a Port of Astoria Commission meeting. RIGHT: Port of Astoria
Executive Director Jim Knight speaks during a Port of Astoria Commission meeting in February.
to Knight Monday expressing out-
rage at not being told earlier about
$69,000 in civil penalties the Depart-
ment of Environmental Quality issued
the Port late last month over stormwa-
ter-monitoring and treatment viola-
tions. Knight said the Port is planning
to appeal the fines.
“I was shocked to learn that the
Port received actual notice of these
DEQ penalties by certified mail on
March 29, 2017,” Hunsinger’s let-
ter said. “How on earth did you not
let this commission know about these
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to litigate against Oregon DEQ.”
Fulton’s letter said that given the
potential for litigation against DEQ,
the Port Commission and staff should
have discussed the issue in executive
session with a lawyer present.
Stormwater system
Roughly one-third of the Port’s
fine last month was for not complet-
ing a Pier 3 stormwater-treatment sys-
tem by July. Knight has said the Port
had an agreement with DEQ to avoid
fines in exchange for forward progress
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DEQ penalties at our Port meeting on
April 4, 2017?”
Hunsinger has called for a discus-
sion at the next Port meeting on why
staff did not inform the Port Commis-
sion of the fines before a Friday article
in The Daily Astorian.
“You have repeatedly acknowl-
edged that the commission sets the
Port’s policy and then Port staff car-
ries it out,” Fulton’s letter said. “How-
ever, in this same newspaper article
you took it upon yourself to unilater-
ally claim the Port’s policy decision is
on the project.
In his letter, Fulton continued to
admonish Knight over not revealing
the cost overruns and for a lack of
specificity on a plan to have Port ten-
ants, who lease space on the land to be
served by the stormwater system, con-
tribute to the costs.
Fulton also said he hoped Port staff
“errs on the side of transparency” and
informs the commission about prob-
lems in advance of reports by the
media.
If the system continues to fail,
he said, the Port could face more
stormwater fines and lose the abil-
ity to operate the agency’s main ter-
minals. He raised the memory of for-
mer Executive Director Peter Gearin,
who pleaded guilty in 2009 to a fel-
ony violation of the Clean Water Act
after allowing the agency to illegally
dispose of contaminated dredge spoils
in the Columbia River in 2005. The
Port accrued about $800,000 in civil
penalties and legal bills related to the
violations.
“The commission and public is
not well-served by blindly trusting its
director to always do the right thing,”
Fulton said.
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