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WEATHER
East Oregonian
TODAY
THURSDAY
FRIDAY
Partly sunny and
hot
Sunny much of the
time and hot
Near-record
temperatures
91° 62°
94° 62°
SUNDAY
Record-breaking
temperatures
Very hot
PENDLETON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
101° 64°
107° 68°
107° 70°
HERMISTON TEMPERATURE FORECAST
93° 61°
97° 62°
PENDLETON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
HIGH
LOW
85°
81°
102° (1992)
57°
54°
40° (1920)
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
0.00"
0.05"
0.97"
4.99"
6.94"
7.48"
HERMISTON
through 3 p.m. yesterday
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday
Normals
Records
103° 65°
HIGH
LOW
86°
82°
106° (1958)
58°
55°
40° (2009)
0.00"
Trace
0.49"
3.14"
4.03"
5.60"
SUN AND MOON
Sunrise today
Sunset tonight
Moonrise today
Moonset today
First
Full
June 24
July 1
5:06 a.m.
8:49 p.m.
1:23 p.m.
12:46 a.m.
Last
New
July 8
110° 73°
Spokane
Wenatchee
87/60
92/67
Tacoma
Moses
81/55
Lake
Pullman
Aberdeen Olympia
Yakima 91/63
84/52
69/55
82/55
92/61
Longview
Kennewick Walla Walla
81/58
92/67 Lewiston
94/60
Astoria
92/63
70/56
Portland
Enterprise
Hermiston
86/62
Pendleton 84/53
The Dalles 93/61
91/62
91/63
La Grande
Salem
84/53
86/57
Albany
Corvallis 86/54
86/55
John Day
85/55
Ontario
Eugene
Bend
95/63
87/52
84/49
Caldwell
Burns
93/60
90/52
Medford
94/60
PRECIPITATION
24 hours ending 3 p.m.
Month to date
Normal month to date
Year to date
Last year to date
Normal year to date
109° 71°
Seattle
81/59
ALMANAC
July 15
REGIONAL CITIES
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SATURDAY
Today
Astoria
Baker City
Bend
Brookings
Burns
Enterprise
Eugene
Heppner
Hermiston
John Day
Klamath Falls
La Grande
Meacham
Medford
Newport
North Bend
Ontario
Pasco
Pendleton
Portland
Redmond
Salem
Spokane
Ukiah
Vancouver
Walla Walla
Yakima
Beijing
Hong Kong
Jerusalem
London
Mexico City
Moscow
Paris
Rome
Seoul
Sydney
Tokyo
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SALEM (AP) — Oregon
Senate lawmakers approved
a measure making it a
felony to secretly record
someone while they’re nude
and in a private area.
The state Senate gave
unanimous approval to the
bill Tuesday. It increases
penalties for someone who
sneaks a camera into a
private room and records
the occupants without their
knowledge.
Supporters say
prosecutors are often
hamstrung by the current
invasion-of-privacy
laws, which classify
nonconsensual recordings
as misdemeanors and aren’t
harsh enough for the crime.
Oregon lawmakers
previously approved
two other bills aimed at
strengthening the state’s
privacy laws. One increases
penalties for those who
sneak photos up women’s
dresses without their
consent. The other outlaws
so-called “revenge porn”
and makes it a crime to
share intimate images of
someone without their
approval.
Brown signs
testing opt-out bill
SALEM (AP) — Oregon
Gov. Kate Brown has
signed a bill making
it easier for parents to
opt their children out of
standardized tests.
Brown’s signature on
Tuesday followed warnings
by federal of¿cials
that Oregon could lose
education funding if too
many students opt out.
The Democratic
governor says in a statement
that teachers should be
sure parents understand
the value of tests and the
consequences of opting out.
Oregon currently allows
parents to opt their children
out of standardized tests
for religious reasons or a
disability. The bill would
permit opting out for any
reason.
Testing critics say the
assessments waste class
time and are stressful for
some students.
Education reform
advocates oppose the
bill. They say testing
is an important way to
measure progress and raise
standards.
Panel backs sales
tax for marijuana
SALEM (AP) — The
state lawmakers preparing
for Oregon’s legal
marijuana program are
supporting a sales tax for
the drug.
A joint House-Senate
committee approved a sales
tax of up to 20 percent on
Tuesday, setting the stage
for a vote in the full House.
The sales tax would
replace a tax on growers
that was originally approved
by voters as part of last
year’s Measure 91.
Lawmakers say they’re
aiming for a tax rate and
method that allows legal
marijuana to compete with
pot from the black market.
Medical marijuana users
would not have to pay the
tax.
Using and growing
marijuana becomes legal
in Oregon on July 1, but
the state won’t be ready by
then to set up retail sales.
Lawmakers have not yet
decided when sales should
start.
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CAVE JUNCTION (AP)
— A wild¿re scorching a
remote part of southwestern
Oregon has grown to 5,000
acres, but containment
improved to almost 50
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Incident commander
Doug Johnson says crews
along the southwest edge of
the ¿re will spend Tuesday
completing interior burnout
operations. Helicopters
will support the effort with
bucket drops.
Johnson says ¿re
lines will be tested in the
coming days by a heatwave
expected to bring triple-
digit temperatures to the
region.
The lightning-sparked
blaze started June 11. It’s
burning 10 miles from Cave
Junction on the Rogue-
River Siskiyou National
Forest.
Almost 500 people are
working on the ¿re.
AG says no more
time to empty
Hanford tanks
RICHLAND, Wash.
(AP) — The U.S.
Department of Energy
should not be given
additional time to empty
the next group of Hanford
Nuclear Reservation waste
storage tanks, according to
state Attorney General Bob
Ferguson.
Earlier this month,
the Energy Department
proposed extending
deadlines for retrieving
radioactive waste from
nine leak-prone tanks for
one year, giving it until fall
2023 to complete the work.
The agency said that
was because a recent
requirement that required
air respirators for most tank
farm workers as protection
against chemical vapors
reduced ef¿ciency by 30 to
70 percent.
But Ferguson said
Monday the Energy
Department must meet
agreed-upon timelines for
Hanford cleanup.
The Tri-City Herald
reported that Hanford for
decades made plutonium
for nuclear weapons and is
now is engaged in cleaning
up the nation’s largest
collection of nuclear waste.
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REGIONAL FORECAST
Western Washington: Sun and clouds
today. Mostly cloudy tonight, except partly
cloudy across the south.
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Eastern Washington: Partly sunny today.
Mostly cloudy tonight. Partly sunny tomor-
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Cascades: Partly sunny today. Partly cloudy
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Northern California: Windy at the coast
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Today
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Coastal Oregon: Clouds and sun today;
however, low clouds followed by sunshine
in the south.
Eastern and Central Oregon: Sunny to
partly cloudy today; hot.
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NATIONAL WEATHER TODAY
Thu.
WORLD CITIES
(in mph)
Klamath Falls
88/50
Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Shown are noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
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National Summary: Showers and thunderstorms will extend from the lower part of the
mid-Atlantic to the Ohio Valley and parts of the central and northern Plains today. Heat will
build over the Southeast and much of the West.
Yesterday’s National Extremes: (for the 48 contiguous states)
High 112° in Blythe, Calif.
Low 29° in Boca Reservoir, Calif.
NATIONAL CITIES
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Albuquerque
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Baltimore
Billings
Birmingham
Boise
Boston
Charleston, SC
Charleston, WV
Chicago
Cleveland
Dallas
Denver
Detroit
El Paso
Fairbanks
Fargo
Honolulu
Houston
Indianapolis
Jacksonville
Kansas City
Las Vegas
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New York City
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Groups clash in court over
Columbia Basin salmon plan
P O RT L A N D ( A P )
— Federal authorities
defended their latest plan
for mitigating damage
to salmon and steelhead
imperiled by hydroelectric
dams in the Columbia
River Basin.
In oral arguments in
U.S. District Court on
Tuesday, the government
argued its approach is
resulting in more salmon
surviving at dams, juvenile
¿sh migrating faster to the
ocean and record numbers
of ¿sh returning to restored
habitat.
But conservation and
¿shing groups, Oregon
and the Nez Perce tribe,
which challenged the plan
in court, said it’s deeply
Àawed. They said it won’t
lead to the recovery of wild
¿sh populations, because
many have not achieved
the promised bene¿ts and
are barely hanging on.
Most of the returning ¿sh
were arti¿cially bred in
hatcheries.
Thirteen species of
salmon and steelhead
are listed as endangered
B O N N E V I L L E
or threatened under the
Endangered Species Act in
the Columbia River Basin.
The plan’s various iter-
ations have been litigated
in court for more than two
decades. The most recent
plan — known as the
biological opinion — was
issued in 2008 to cover
a 10-year period through
2018, and a supplemental
plan was added in 2010. It
was struck down in court
in 2011 for depending too
much on habitat improve-
ments whose bene¿ts are
unknown. The plan’s latest
version was issued in
January 2014.
The groups in court
clashed over which stan-
dard of recovery should be
used to measure success.
The federal government
argued it can’t cause
additional risks or harm to
the ¿sh, and it has met that
standard.
The plan, said federal
attorney Michael Eitel, isn’t
a plan for recovery. Rather,
it asks whether ¿sh will be
“trending toward recovery.”
This means one year’s
P O W E R
returns must outnumber the
previous year’s, regardless
of whether that eventually
leads to recovery or when.
But the plaintiffs argued
the government has set
the bar too low. They said
because energy-producing
dams are the main cause
of ¿sh mortality, the plan
must do more to protect and
recover them.
“A growing species is
not the same as a recovered
species,” said Todd True, an
attorney with Earthjustice
who represents environ-
mental groups in the court
case.
What’s missing from the
plan, said True, is a de¿-
nition of what constitutes
recovery and when approx-
imately it will be achieved.
True criticized the
uncertainty of habitat resto-
ration, which is the plan’s
main tool to improve ¿sh
survival; other plan compo-
nents include reducing
the effects of hatcheries
on wild ¿sh and keeping
predators at bay, as well as
improving ¿sh passage at
the dams.
A D M I N I S T R A T I O N
Southern Cross conservation
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easement would protect fi sh and
e
wildlife habitat
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The Bonneville Power Administration intends to fund the purchase of a
conservation easement on approximately 542 acres of riparian habitat located
along Catherine Creek in Union County, Ore. When the transaction is complete, the
Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation will own and manage the
property for fi sh and wildlife conservation purposes and grant BPA a conservation
easement over the property to ensure that the habitat values on the property are
always protected.
Funding for the purchase of the easement is part of the Confederated Tribes of
the Umatilla Indian Reservation’s 2008 Accord agreement with BPA and its federal
agency partners. These agreements established fi rm 10-year funding commitments
to Accord partners for habitat and hatchery actions. Funding is being provided
as part of BPA’s ongoing eff orts to protect, restore and enhance habitat for Snake
River spring-summer chinook and steelhead as mitigation for the construction and
operation of the Federal Columbia River Power System on the Columbia and Snake
rivers.
The Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation will develop a
management plan to guide the protection and enhancement of habitat on the
property. BPA will review the plan for consistency with the mitigation and
conservation purposes of the acquisition. Letters describing the proposed
purchase, a map and information describing environmental review requirements
under the National Environmental Policy Act are available at www.efw.bpa.gov.
For more information, contact BPA project manager Dorothy Welch at 503-230-
5479 or dwwelch@bpa.gov. You may also call toll free 800-622-4519.