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Page 10A OFF PAGE ONE East Oregonian Friday, April 17, 2015 DRONE: Must make fee structure agreement before testing can start DAM: Spillway weirs have 99 percent steelhead survival rate Duration of the test, testing frequency and the size of the both manned and unmanned crew a UAS company brings vehicles has been an impedi- to Pendleton will also garner ment to further development discounts. at the airport and the testing The governor’s speech range. also brought the announce- $ VLJQL¿FDQW DPRXQW RI ment that range manager John money has already been sunk Stevens would be leaving into the range by the city, Pendleton to become chief which is counting on testing RSHUDWLQJ RI¿FHU RI 62$5 fees to sustain the range in the Oregon, the state’s drone ad- long term. vocacy group. At the April 7 city coun- While Stevens works to- cil meeting, Finance Direc- ward further unifying the tor Linda Carter said service state’s three UAS ranges, charges revenue was coming Peak 3 will search for his re- in below projections because placement. the UAS range hadn’t started Chrisman said he doesn’t operating yet. expect to be involved in the Chrisman admitted that interview process, his only in- he expected the range to start put being the candidate should testing by July and didn’t be comfortable in a rural area. account for the bureaucratic In the interim, a Peak 3 hurdles the city would have employee is managing the to clear. range remotely from Alaska. “There are a lot more mov- &LW\ RI¿FLDOV DUHQ¶W WKH ing parts than anticipated,” he only ones who want to take said. advantage of the increased in- The latest hurdle involves terest in UAS. negotiations between the city Art Hill, who heads Blue and the University of Alaska Mountain Community Col- Fairbanks, which acts as an lege’s Small Business Devel- administrator for the all the opment Center, said he would UAS ranges in Oregon, Ha- like to locate an incubator waii and Alaska. building at the airport for Chrisman said the city and BMCC’s business accelerator the University of Alaska Fair- program. banks need to agree on a fee BMCC is creating the ac- structure before testing can celerator program to connect start. startup businesses in Eastern Three vehicles from two Oregon to mentors and in- different aviation companies vestors in the west side of the have been approved by the state. Federal Aviation Adminis- When asked why he want- tration. Chrisman said those ed to locate an incubator facil- companies require all the in- ity at the airport, Hill quoted volved parties to sign non-dis- bank robber Willie Sutton. closure agreements, which is “Because that’s where the standard practice in the UAS money is,” he said. industry to protect intellectual Travel Pendleton event property. recruiter Pat Beard is also This means the process is looking into how Pendleton’s further elongated because the burgeoning drone industry agreement has to be approved could be turned into tourism by the legal departments of opportunities. the city, the university, the Two events he’s looking FAA and Peak 3 Technical at bringing to Pendleton are Services, the company the a convention on precision city contracts with to manage DJULFXOWXUH D ¿HOG PDQ\ LQ- the range. GXVWU\ RI¿FLDOV VD\ 8$6 While UAS testing would could positively affect, and a sustain the range, the major GURQHURGHRDWWKH5RXQG8S economic development is Grounds, an event where col- expected to come from drone lege students would build and FRPSDQLHV EXLOGLQJ RI¿FHV À\XQPDQQHGDHULDOYHKLFOHV and factories in Pendleton. Beard said efforts to bring Chrisman said he intends either event to town are in to reduce testing fees for any their early stages and are far company willing to lease from certain. space at the airport, establish ——— D VDWHOOLWH RI¿FH RU SHUPD- Contact Antonio Sierra at nently locate their business in asierra@eastoregonian.com the city. or 541-966-0836. WR PRQLWRU ¿VK WKURXJKRXW their life cycle. 7KH PDMRULW\ RI ¿VK however, will pass through the dam’s spillway. Spill operations began April 10 at McNary Dam, as more juve- niles begin making their long MRXUQH\WRZDUGWKH3DFL¿F Crews at McNary put in weirs at two of the spillway gates in 2007 to allow for passage closer to the surface of the water, where certain VSHFLHV RI ¿VK DUH PRUH likely to approach. Those cost roughly $3.5-$5 mil- lion each, said Ann Setter, ¿VKELRORJLVWZLWKWKH$UP\ Corps of Engineers’ Walla Walla District. Biologists then conduct a juvenile performance stan- dard test at each of the fed- HUDO&ROXPELD5LYHUGDPVWR gauge survival of the young ¿VK $ VWXG\ DW 0F- Nary found that 83.5 percent of steelhead passed at the Continued from 1A FREY: Taught 4 months at PHS Continued from 1A over three weeks beginning on March 13, Frey’s last day at the high school. The last encounter, according to the indictment, was April 4. The indictment also states there was a break between each incident in which Frey had the “opportunity to re- nounce his criminal intent.” The teen, by law, was too young to give consent. Pendleton schools Super- intendent Jon Peterson report- ed Frey taught four months at PHS and March 13 was his last day. After that, Frey be- gan to work full time for the Oregon National Guard. Capt. Steven Bomar, spokesman for the Oregon Guard, said Frey’s military career is on hold during the civilian criminal proceedings. +H VDLG WKH *XDUG ³ÀDJV´ members under criminal in- vestigation, preventing pro- motions. But if a member is cleared of criminal wrongdo- ing, Bomar said, their career can resume. 7KH1RUWKHUQ2UHJRQ5H- gional Correctional Facility, The Dalles, was holding Frey for the Umatilla County Jail. 125&25¶V RQOLQH LQPDWH roster no loner shows Frey is in custody there, and the Umatilla County Jail website also did not show Frey. “We have an obligation to mitigate for continued operation of the dams. Fish considerations come first to the table. Continued from 1A — Kevin Wingert, BPA spokesman spillway and surface weirs, with 99 percent survival. Fourteen percent passed through the bypass channel, with 100 percent survival. A PXFKVPDOOHUQXPEHURI¿VK — only 2 percent — passed down at the turbines, with a predictably lower survival rate of 83 percent. “Steelhead are always searching for a surface pas- sage route, which these top- spill weirs provide,” Setter said. 5RXJKO\ SHUFHQW RI the river is spilled at McNary Dam, which is done to main- tain adequate passage and limit amount of dissolved gases plunged into the water. If the gas levels are too high, tiny bubbles can get into the scales of juveniles and cause them stress, or even death. Too much spill is also dis- FRPEREXODWLQJ WR DGXOW ¿VK DVWKH\WU\WR¿QGWKHLUZD\ upstream to one of McNary’s WZR¿VKODGGHUVVDLG$JQHV /XW¿VKELRORJLVWZLWK%3$ Though some environmen- tal groups would like to see more spill at the dams, Lut said the current levels are al- ready enough to protect runs of both adults and juveniles. “We could have so much water coming through the dam that these adults just stop and don’t know where the ladder is,” Lut said. “That can increase their pre- dation rate.” Their claim, she said, is backed by steadily rising adult salmon returns. More than 1 million fall chinook made it back into the Co- OXPELD ODVW \HDU DQG ¿VK- ery managers are expecting 925,000 for the 2015 sea- son. Salmon advocates and the state of Oregon are suing the federal agencies, arguing the way they run the Columbia 5LYHU K\GUR V\VWHP LV VWLOO not enough to boost needed recovery for threatened and HQGDQJHUHG ¿VK VSHFLHV $ hearing is scheduled for June 23 in Portland. Wingert said they are al- ways on the lookout for new ways and practices that can KHOSWKHPEHWWHUSURWHFW¿VK at the dams. “We have an obligation to mitigate for continued oper- ation of the dams,” he said. “Fish considerations come ¿UVWWRWKHWDEOH´ Get the new Samsung Galaxy S 6. And then some. ® Trade in for the Samsung Galaxy S® 6 or Galaxy S® 6 Edge and get $50 on top of your old device’s value. Plus, we’ll pay off your old contract up to $350 per line. A better value than Verizon and AT&T Lines U.S. Cellular ® Verizon 100 * / 8GB $ 120 * / 8GB $ 2 $ 4 $ AT&T 115 * / 8GB $ 130 * / 10GB 145 * / 8GB $ 160 * / 10GB *Per month. Valid as of 3/24/15. MINE: ‘We are not looking for Bundyville’ Continued from 1A “We are not looking for Bundyville. We are not look- ing to challenge anything. We are just holding our con- stitutional rights and proper- ty rights in reserve until we get our day in court,” Bar- clay said. 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