A12 THE BULLETIN • WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 2021
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TODAY
THURSDAY
TONIGHT
HIGH
42°
LOW
29°
Mostly sunny
A rain or snow shower;
breezy in the p.m.
ALMANAC
SATURDAY
43°
31°
45°
35°
Becoming cloudy
SUNDAY
42°
30°
Breezy in the morning;
mostly cloudy
Chilly with sun and clouds
MONDAY
52°
31°
TEMPERATURE
Yesterday Normal
Record
45°
46° 66° in 1995
27°
24°
1° in 2018
PRECIPITATION
24 hours through 5 p.m. yesterday
Trace
Record
0.69" in 2001
Month to date (normal)
0.43" (0.91")
Year to date (normal)
1.09" (2.44")
Barometric pressure at 4 p.m.
30.27"
SUN, MOON AND PLANETS
Rise/Set
Today
Thu.
Sun
6:50am/5:47pm 6:49am/5:48pm
Moon
2:49pm/5:41am 4:01pm/6:21am
Mercury 5:42am/3:40pm 5:40am/3:38pm
Venus
6:41am/5:04pm 6:40am/5:07pm
Mars
9:51am/12:48am 9:49am/12:47am
Jupiter
6:03am/3:55pm 5:59am/3:52pm
Saturn
5:41am/3:15pm 5:37am/3:12pm
Uranus 9:12am/11:07pm 9:08am/11:04pm
Full
Last
New
First
Feb 27
Mar 5
Mar 13
Mar 21
Tonight's sky: Mercury reaches its highest
point in morning sky.
Source: Jim Todd, OMSI
UV INDEX TODAY
10 a.m.
Noon
2 p.m.
4 p.m.
3
3
3
1
The higher the AccuWeather.com UV Index ™ number,
the greater the need for eye and skin protection. 0-2 Low,
3-5 Moderate; 6-7 High; 8-10 Very High; 11+ Extreme.
ROAD CONDITONS
For web cameras of our passes, go to
www.bendbulletin.com/webcams
I-84 at Cabbage Hill: Chilly today with clouds
and sun. Fair and cold tonight.
US 20 at Santiam Pass: Mostly sunny today.
Snow moving in Thursday afternoon.
US 26 at Gov't Camp: Clouds and sunshine
today. Snow Thursday afternoon.
US 26 at Ochoco Divide: Mostly sunny and
cold today. Snow later Thursday.
ORE 58 at Willamette Pass: Mostly sunny
today; chilly. Fair and cold tonight. Chance for
snow Thursday.
ORE 138 at Diamond Lake: Clouds and sun
today. Fair and cold tonight.
SKI REPORT
EAST: Partly sunny
Wednesday. Fair and
cold Wednesday night.
Snow likely later
Thursday, perhaps 1-3
inches.
CENTRAL: Sun and
clouds Wednesday.
Fair and cold Wednes-
day night. Cloudy
Thursday; afternoon
rain or snow.
WEST: Partly sunny
Wednesday. Increasing
clouds Wednesday
night. Rain is likely
Thursday into Thurs-
day night.
Periods of sun with a
shower possible
Mostly sunny and milder
Hood
River
Yesterday
Today Thursday
Yesterday
Today Thursday
Yesterday
Today Thursday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
City
Hi/Lo/Prec. Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
Astoria
47/41/0.11 47/38/c 47/42/r
La Grande
39/32/0.09 37/18/pc 36/31/c
Portland
50/39/0.14 49/37/pc 48/42/r
Baker City
43/31/0.02 38/16/pc 35/27/sn
La Pine
40/26/0.00 41/22/s 41/28/c
Prineville
41/28/0.00 44/26/s 41/36/c
Brookings
55/39/0.00 55/38/s 51/40/pc
Medford
56/36/Tr
54/30/s 51/36/c
Redmond
44/30/Tr
44/26/s 49/33/c
Burns
42/26/0.01 38/17/s 42/27/sf
Newport
50/37/0.04 47/37/pc 47/42/r
Roseburg
54/37/0.01 52/34/pc 47/40/r
Eugene
51/34/0.01 51/35/pc 50/41/r
North Bend
51/39/0.04 51/38/s 51/43/r
Salem
50/37/0.23 49/35/pc 49/41/r
Klamath Falls
51/24/0.00 42/18/s 47/25/pc
Ontario
46/33/0.00 42/19/s 38/25/sn
Sisters
43/29/0.00 43/24/s 45/36/c
Lakeview
46/22/0.00 35/12/s 42/23/pc
Pendleton
47/36/0.03 42/27/s 44/38/sn
The Dalles
52/40/0.08 49/34/pc 49/40/sh
Weather(W): s-sunny, pc-partly cloudy, c-cloudy, sh-showers, t-thunderstorms, r-rain, sf-snow flurries, sn-snow, i-ice, Tr-trace, Yesterday data as of 5 p.m. yesterday
NATIONAL WEATHER
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-0s
0s
10s
20s
30s
40s
50s
60s
70s
80s
90s
100s
110s
NATIONAL
EXTREMES
YESTERDAY (for the
T-storms
Shown are today’s noon positions of weather systems and precipitation. Temperature bands are highs for the day.
Rain
Showers
Snow
Flurries
Ice
Warm Front
Stationary Front
Cold Front
Source: OnTheSnow.com
Riff
Continued from A11
Since the pandemic began
nearly a year ago, Oregon’s gov-
ernor has ordered businesses
shuttered, had them operate at
25% capacity for indoor din-
ing or only offer carryout ser-
vice. Not all businesses have
been able to maintain opera-
tions due to these restrictions.
Among those businesses that
closed recently are Foxtail
Bakeshop & Kitchen in Bend,
also located in the Box Factory,
and the Ochoco Brewing Co.
in Prineville.
Evers and his team decided
to find other alternatives and
to focus on their core busi-
ness: wholesaling its cold-brew
products to shops and grocery
outlets. The Riff founding team
includes Nate Armbrust, a for-
mer Stumptown Coffee Roast-
ers cold brewer from Portland;
Kevin Smith, a brand strategist;
and Bobby Evers, Evers’ son
and craft beverage creative.
The closure created an op-
portunity for Stoller Wines,
which had wanted to open a
wine bar in Bend for a while,
said Tracy Timmins, vice pres-
ident of consumer sales. It op-
erated first as a pop-up busi-
Vaccines
Continued from A11
That’s not counting a third
vaccine, from Johnson & John-
son, that’s expected to get a
green light from regulators
soon. The Biden administra-
tion said Tuesday that it ex-
pects about 2 million doses of
that vaccine to be shipped in
the first week, but the company
told lawmakers it should pro-
vide enough of the single-dose
option for 20 million people by
the end of March.
Looking ahead to summer,
Pfizer and Moderna expect to
complete delivery of 300 mil-
lion doses each, and J&J aims to
provide an additional 100 mil-
lion doses. That would be more
than enough to vaccinate every
American adult, the goal set by
the Biden administration.
Two other manufacturers,
Novavax and AstraZeneca,
have vaccines in the pipeline
Yesterday
City
Hi/Lo/Prec.
Abilene
81/50/0.00
Akron
43/33/Tr
Albany
36/25/0.02
Albuquerque
62/27/0.00
Anchorage
14/-2/Tr
Atlanta
71/40/0.00
Atlantic City
49/36/Tr
Austin
79/35/0.00
Baltimore
56/32/0.00
Billings
42/34/0.15
Birmingham
72/33/0.00
Bismarck
45/28/0.05
Boise
45/33/0.00
Boston
43/34/0.02
Bridgeport, CT 41/33/0.03
Buffalo
36/30/0.05
Burlington, VT
39/32/0.06
Caribou, ME
36/23/0.16
Charleston, SC 70/45/0.00
Charlotte
67/29/0.00
Chattanooga
71/33/0.00
Cheyenne
51/36/0.00
Chicago
47/37/0.00
Cincinnati
54/33/0.00
Cleveland
43/31/Tr
Colorado Springs 65/28/0.00
Columbia, MO
67/36/0.00
Columbia, SC
70/33/Tr
Columbus, GA
72/36/0.00
Columbus, OH
46/35/Tr
Concord, NH
40/17/Tr
Corpus Christi
80/46/0.00
Dallas
81/42/0.00
Dayton
46/34/Tr
Denver
63/31/0.00
Des Moines
49/32/0.00
Detroit
47/30/Tr
Duluth
41/30/0.00
El Paso
73/31/0.00
Fairbanks
3/-4/Tr
Fargo
35/26/0.08
Flagstaff
55/20/0.00
Grand Rapids
43/30/0.05
Green Bay
46/33/0.02
Greensboro
64/27/0.00
Harrisburg
50/26/0.00
Hartford, CT
41/31/Tr
Helena
36/32/0.13
Honolulu
82/71/0.02
Houston
80/39/0.00
Huntsville
70/30/0.00
Indianapolis
52/35/0.00
Jackson, MS
74/31/0.00
Jacksonville
71/54/Tr
Today
Thursday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
61/34/s
42/32/r
49/28/pc 38/22/pc
42/30/pc 33/18/pc
60/33/pc
47/28/c
26/26/sn 32/25/pc
72/48/s
69/49/pc
47/42/s
45/36/pc
77/51/c
59/47/sh
59/38/s
50/32/pc
34/20/c
38/26/c
72/49/s
66/47/c
38/21/pc 46/30/pc
38/22/s
39/26/sn
45/36/pc
41/25/s
44/35/pc
43/26/s
44/27/c
31/25/pc
40/26/pc 29/14/sf
39/22/pc
24/-1/sf
72/45/s
72/51/s
70/44/s
62/43/pc
71/47/s
63/42/pc
31/11/sf
32/20/s
42/24/pc 37/21/pc
52/29/pc 43/26/pc
47/28/c
35/24/pc
34/18/sf
29/16/sn
49/27/pc 45/28/pc
73/46/s
69/47/pc
73/47/s
73/55/pc
49/28/pc 41/23/pc
44/32/pc
36/15/s
78/62/c
73/58/c
66/41/pc
52/42/r
47/26/c
41/24/pc
37/17/sf
36/17/sn
38/23/c
39/25/s
42/23/c
37/21/pc
31/17/pc 31/23/pc
74/42/s
70/35/s
20/1/sn
10/2/c
31/17/pc
37/31/s
50/20/s
43/17/pc
39/21/c
35/19/pc
40/19/s
35/17/pc
67/45/s
54/38/pc
55/35/pc
46/27/s
46/34/pc
40/20/s
34/17/pc
35/22/c
82/72/pc 81/71/pc
75/60/c
68/55/sh
69/44/s
58/41/c
50/27/pc 42/24/pc
73/54/pc
64/53/c
76/44/s
77/49/s
Amsterdam
Athens
Auckland
Baghdad
Bangkok
Beijing
Beirut
Berlin
Bogota
Budapest
Buenos Aires
Cabo San Lucas
Cairo
Calgary
Cancun
Dublin
Edinburgh
Geneva
Harare
Hong Kong
Istanbul
Jerusalem
Johannesburg
Lima
Lisbon
London
Madrid
Manila
62/50/pc
67/49/s
78/62/pc
68/44/pc
94/76/pc
40/19/pc
66/54/s
65/44/pc
68/49/c
59/35/pc
83/69/s
83/64/pc
71/54/s
33/21/s
83/75/s
51/39/r
53/41/r
63/39/s
79/62/pc
74/68/s
48/41/c
56/43/s
69/61/t
75/67/pc
64/51/pc
59/49/pc
62/41/s
89/77/pc
City
Juneau
Kansas City
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Louisville
Madison, WI
Memphis
Miami
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Nashville
New Orleans
New York City
Newark, NJ
Norfolk, VA
Oklahoma City
Omaha
Orlando
Palm Springs
Peoria
Philadelphia
Phoenix
Pittsburgh
Portland, ME
Providence
Raleigh
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Rochester, NY
Sacramento
St. Louis
Salt Lake City
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
Savannah
Seattle
Sioux Falls
Spokane
Springfi eld, MO
Tampa
Tucson
Tulsa
Washington, DC
Wichita
Yakima
Yuma
Yesterday
Hi/Lo/Prec.
38/33/0.16
69/30/0.00
45/30/Tr
74/46/0.00
58/34/Tr
53/26/0.00
74/37/0.00
79/53/0.00
62/40/0.00
46/34/0.00
69/40/0.00
85/71/0.13
49/36/0.00
38/31/0.00
70/37/0.00
72/43/0.00
45/36/0.01
45/33/Tr
65/35/0.00
72/29/0.00
54/31/0.00
76/64/Tr
86/53/0.00
51/35/0.00
50/31/Tr
79/49/0.00
45/33/Tr
42/24/0.11
46/32/0.01
65/31/0.00
49/26/Tr
59/31/0.00
63/34/0.00
37/30/0.01
76/46/0.00
66/38/0.00
47/34/0.00
78/44/0.00
75/47/0.00
76/50/0.00
79/45/0.00
61/22/0.00
72/45/0.00
49/39/0.08
55/26/0.00
39/29/0.00
71/35/0.00
78/64/0.01
81/42/0.00
74/32/0.00
60/30/0.00
69/26/0.00
51/31/0.00
82/49/0.00
Today
Thursday
Hi/Lo/W Hi/Lo/W
37/32/r
38/31/c
46/26/c
46/28/pc
41/19/c
36/18/pc
71/43/s
60/40/s
53/29/pc 43/28/pc
41/24/s
43/26/s
60/38/pc
51/38/c
73/51/s
71/50/s
57/33/pc 47/31/pc
39/20/pc
36/17/s
62/39/pc 53/40/pc
81/70/pc 82/72/pc
40/24/c
37/20/s
35/23/pc
35/25/s
65/36/s
53/36/c
75/60/pc
73/61/r
50/37/pc
44/30/s
50/36/pc
45/29/s
65/46/s
48/36/pc
55/31/s
49/33/r
40/24/s
41/27/s
80/59/pc
80/61/s
84/53/s
75/50/s
42/23/c
41/23/pc
52/38/s
46/32/pc
79/50/s
72/45/s
52/28/pc 38/23/pc
44/34/pc
38/17/s
48/36/pc 43/25/pc
71/46/s
56/39/pc
36/14/pc 42/26/pc
43/19/s
54/26/s
66/42/s
53/32/pc
46/26/c
32/23/pc
66/41/s
67/40/s
53/28/pc 46/29/pc
38/19/sf
39/29/s
76/55/pc
59/49/c
67/50/pc
72/47/s
67/48/s
64/46/s
69/42/s
68/41/s
52/28/pc
42/22/c
74/45/s
76/51/s
47/38/pc
47/39/r
39/23/s
41/29/s
38/28/s
39/26/sn
50/28/pc 46/30/pc
78/57/s
78/59/s
79/46/s
70/39/s
56/32/pc
53/35/c
62/40/s
51/36/pc
50/29/pc 46/29/pc
48/30/pc
50/36/c
81/51/s
70/44/s
84/69/0.12
78/47/0.00
36/28/0.15
1/-15/0.00
80/57/0.21
84/71/0.00
84/57/0.00
54/50/0.00
36/33/Tr
35/30/0.14
64/54/0.00
82/73/0.00
61/41/0.00
91/55/0.00
89/66/0.00
34/21/0.39
39/25/0.00
55/43/0.00
89/75/0.00
39/34/0.08
68/65/0.14
81/57/0.00
69/52/0.00
60/52/0.00
39/30/0.02
45/36/0.05
54/30/0.00
50/27/0.00
78/54/s
77/50/s
36/19/sn
10/8/sn
80/56/pc
81/72/s
88/59/s
49/30/s
44/37/pc
35/15/sn
65/48/s
87/74/s
63/43/s
86/57/s
84/67/t
27/19/sn
47/27/pc
61/53/s
88/76/t
48/44/pc
72/69/sh
82/65/s
68/52/s
52/38/pc
42/24/sn
43/38/c
57/38/pc
57/39/pc
INTERNATIONAL
48 contiguous states)
National high: 87°
at Tamiami, FL
National low: -4°
at Angel Fire, NM
Precipitation: 0.48"
at Rome, NY
In inches as of 5 p.m. yesterday
Ski resort
New snow
Base
Anthony Lakes Mtn
1
0-70
Hoodoo Ski Area
2
0-95
Mt. Ashland
0
63-67
Mt. Bachelor
1
113-125
Mt. Hood Meadows
0
141-172
Mt. Hood Ski Bowl
4
70-92
Timberline Lodge
5
0-168
Willamette Pass
0
0-80
Aspen / Snowmass, CO
0
44-60
Mammoth Mtn. Ski, CA
0
65-110
Squaw Valley, CA
0
0-120
Park City Mountain, UT
0
50-60
Sun Valley, ID
0
88-107
Chance for afternoon rain
or drizzle
NATIONAL
Umatilla
49/31
Rufus
Hermiston
47/31
49/31
48/32
Arlington
Hillsboro Portland
Meacham Lostine
50/30
48/36 49/37
36/17
Wasco
35/15 Enterprise
Pendleton
The Dalles
Tillamook
33/14
45/28
42/27
Sandy
49/34
McMinnville
50/38
Joseph
Heppner
La
Grande
47/36
Maupin
Government
49/37
37/18
32/16
Camp
44/28 Condon 41/31
Union
Lincoln City
41/27
37/25
37/19
Salem
47/38
Spray
Granite
Warm Springs
49/35
Madras
45/24
Albany
34/15
Newport
Baker City
45/26
46/28
Mitchell
47/37
48/34
38/16
Camp Sherman
41/25
Redmond
Corvallis
John
Yachats
Unity
42/25
44/26
50/34
Day
Prineville
47/38
38/16
Ontario
Sisters
44/26
Paulina
38/20
42/19
Florence
Eugene 43/24
Bend Brothers 38/19
Vale
50/38
51/35
42/29
35/21
Sunriver
42/18
Nyssa
40/26
Hampton
Cottage
La Pine
42/20
Juntura
Oakridge
Grove
41/22
35/17
OREGON EXTREMES Coos Bay
Burns
40/17
52/30
51/35
Fort
Rock
50/37
38/17
Riley
YESTERDAY
Crescent
39/18
37/20
High: 56°
39/20
Bandon
Roseburg
Christmas Valley
Jordan Valley
at Medford
Beaver
Frenchglen
Silver
50/39
52/34
38/20
32/12
Low: 18°
Marsh
Lake
37/18
Port Orford
37/18
39/18
at Crater Lake
Grants
Burns Junction
Paisley
52/40
Pass
39/18
Chiloquin
38/19
55/30
Rome
Medford
41/21
Gold Beach
54/30
41/19
51/38
Klamath
Fields
Ashland
McDermitt
Lakeview
Falls
Brookings
38/17
53/32
42/18
35/14
55/38
35/12
Seaside
48/39
Cannon Beach
48/39
51°
25°
TRAVEL WEATHER
Shown is today’s weather. Temperatures are today’s highs and tonight’s lows.
Astoria
47/38
TUESDAY
51°
25°
OREGON WEATHER
Bend Municipal Airport through 5 p.m. yest.
High
Low
FRIDAY
Dean Guernsey/The Bulletin
Riff Cold Brewed employees, from left, David Seward and Deb Sin-
dayen, process coffee at the production facility in Redmond.
ness for several months to test
out the market and served on
the patio and offered take out,
Timmins said.
“Bend was an expansion for
us,” Timmins said. “It wasn’t
super ideal to open in the mid-
dle of a pandemic, but we were
excited to open and go after it.
It’s worked out pretty well.”
The Stoller Wine Group
is the parent company for
Stoller Family Estate, Che-
halem, Chemistry, Canned
Oregon, and History. The Or-
egon-based group was formed
in 2018. Chehalem Winery was
founded in 1990 and Stoller in
1993.
The Bend wine bar is in
proximity to Bledsoe Family
Winery and the Elixir Wine
Brand.
“We absolutely see it as a
good thing to have Bledsoe and
Elixir,” Timmins said. “Bend
has been known as the beer
trail, and we’re excited to start
the wine trail as well. We’ve
had an overwhelming response
from people who wanted an al-
ternative to beer.”
and anticipate eventually add-
ing to those totals.
Asked pointedly if they face
shortages of raw materials,
equipment or funding that
would throw off those sched-
ules, all of the manufacturers
expressed confidence that they
had enough supplies and had
already addressed some of the
early bottlenecks in produc-
tion.
“At this point I can confirm
we are not seeing any shortages
of raw materials,” said Pfizer’s
John Young.
The hearing by a House sub-
committee came as U.S. vacci-
nations continue to accelerate
after a sluggish start and recent
disruptions caused by winter
weather. More than 44 mil-
lion Americans have received
at least one dose of either the
Pfizer or Moderna vaccine,
and about 1.4 million per day
got a first or second dose over
the past seven days, according
to the U.S. Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention.
But state health officials say
demand for inoculations still
vastly outstrips the limited
weekly shipments provided by
the federal government.
“The most pressing chal-
lenge now is the lack of supply
of vaccine doses,” Rep. Diana
DeGette, a Colorado Dem-
ocrat, said as she opened the
hearing. “Some of the compa-
nies here today are still short
of the number of doses they
promised to initially deliver
when they last testified before
this subcommittee in July.”
Both Pfizer and Moderna
failed to meet delivery quo-
tas for the initial doses of their
vaccines late last year. That’s
prompted Congress to scruti-
nize the companies’ plans for
vaccine development and de-
livery, which they noted bene-
fited from $16 billion in federal
funding.
This is Stoller’s fourth tasting
room: two at the Stoller Family
Estate property in Dayton and
one in downtown Newberg.
Evers said that stepping back
from the taproom has reener-
gized the company. It’s plan-
ning to launch a new product
in March, which is a re-engi-
neered version of Alter Ego,
using up-cycled coffee fruit
beverage and cascara, the dried
skins of the coffee cherries.
“Alter Ego was doing well,
but not well enough,” Evers
said. “We’re a purpose-driven
company. If we can create
a beverage that appeals to a
broad audience we can reverse
coffee’s contribution to climate
change. We’re translating that
into a beverage before it’s taken
to a landfill, which can create
great economic profitability for
coffee farmers.”
Cold-brewed coffee is a
growing market, Evers said.
Starting in May, Riff’s products
will be in Fred Meyer stores
and starting in March in Safe-
way stores in Portland, he said.
“It’s growing, and we’re ex-
pecting additional growth
when there’s a return to college
campus life.”
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“A significant amount of
American tax dollars were in-
vested to be able to produce
the vaccine immediately upon
approval,” said Rep. David
McKinley, a West Virginia Re-
publican, who questioned ex-
ecutives on why they were still
unable to meet demand for the
vaccines.
Nearly 14% of Americans
have received at least an initial
dose of the two-shot-regimen
vaccines from Pfizer and Mod-
erna.
The Trump administration’s
Operation Warp Speed focused
most of its efforts on racing
vaccines through research, de-
velopment and manufacturing.
But little planning or funding
went to coordinating vaccina-
tion campaigns at the state and
local levels. That effort is now
picking up speed with plans for
mass vaccination sites and an
increasing supply distributed
to chain pharmacies.
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“The public had no
way to anticipate the two
new routes that would
run through that area. It
deprived residents of La
Grande and Union County
of the right to weigh in on
disproportionately adverse
effects,” said David Becker,
attorney for the coalition,
during oral arguments
Monday.
The coalition also argues
the BLM didn’t properly
evaluate the transmission
line’s “synergistic” effects
with livestock grazing,
which the group argues will
have cumulative impacts on
the sage grouse in the re-
gion.
The BLM and Idaho
Power, the utility company
that would construct the
project, are defending an
inadequate NEPA analysis
of the transmission line’s
effects, Becker said. “They
really are trying to piece to-
gether and point the court
in 25 different directions
and say, ‘We deserve defer-
ence.’”
The BLM countered that
its preferred route was a per-
missible “logical outgrowth”
of alternatives examined in
Hawaii
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The Hawaii Housing Fi-
nance and Development
Corp. begins with federal
data for Honolulu’s median
household income, which
was $101,600 last year. Me-
dian income is the figure at
which half of all households
earn more and half earn less.
The calculation is ad-
justed so median income
results are defined by fam-
ily size. The corporation’s
rules allow households
earning as much as 140%
of the median income to
qualify for subsidized hous-
ing. The limit equates to
$123,480 for a single person
and $176,260 for a family
of four.
Under current guidelines,
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a draft environmental im-
pact statement, or EIS, and
doesn’t require a supple-
mental NEPA study.
The agency wasn’t re-
quired to study burying a
section of the power line
and it sufficiently evaluated
the implications of grazing
while examining the route’s
effects on vegetation, said
Krystal-Rose Perez, attorney
for the BLM.
“The EIS is not organized
in the way plaintiffs want,
but it’s up to BLM’s discre-
tion how to disclose that in-
formation,” she said.
Similarly, the agency
doesn’t have to arrive at the
conclusions preferred by the
opponents, Perez said. “I
don’t think there’s any ques-
tion NEPA does not man-
date particular results.”
Beth Ginsberg, an attor-
ney for Idaho Power, said
that both the Obama and
Trump administrations have
recognized the transmission
line as a critical connection
between the electrical grids
of the Pacific West and In-
termountain West.
“The importance of a
project like this cannot be
understated,” Ginsberg said.
“No shortcuts were taken.
Every I was dotted, every T
was crossed.”
families of four in Honolulu
earning 140% of the median
income can qualify for sub-
sidized housing priced as
high as $1,026,800.
During last year’s state
legislative session, then-Sen.
Laura Thielen and Sen. Sha-
ron Moriwaki, both Demo-
crats, and Sen. Kurt Fevella,
a Republican, introduced
a resolution calling for the
agency to review and com-
pare its affordable home
price methodology against
other places with high hous-
ing costs, such as San Fran-
cisco.
The resolution, which
called for the agency to re-
port analysis results to the
Legislature before this year’s
session, did not receive a
hearing and was not ad-
opted.