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BY ALANNA DURKIN RICHER
AND MICHAEL KUNZELMAN
Associated Press
An Indiana woman on
Wednesday became the first
defendant to be sentenced in
the Jan. 6 insurrection at the
U.S. Capitol and avoided time
behind bars, while a member
of the Oath Keepers extrem-
ist group pleaded guilty in a
conspiracy case and agreed to
cooperate with prosecutors in
a major step forward for the
massive investigation.
The two developments
signal that the cases against
those charged in the deadly
siege are slowly advancing,
even as the U.S. Department
of Justice and the courthouse
in Washington, D.C., struggle
under the weight of roughly
500 federal arrests across the
U.S. And it comes as Repub-
licans in Washington attempt
to downplay the violence
committed by members of the
mob supporting former Presi-
dent Donald Trump.
Graydon Young, who was
accused alongside 15 other
members and associates of the
Oath Keepers of conspiring to
block the congressional cer-
tification of Joe Biden’s presi-
dential victory, pleaded guilty
to two counts: conspiracy and
obstruction of an official pro-
ceeding. It was the first guilty
plea in the major conspiracy
case brought against members
of the group.
Anna Morgan Lloyd, 49,
of Indiana, was ordered by a
federal judge to serve three
years of probation, perform
120 hours of community ser-
vice and pay $500 in restitu-
tion after admitting to unlaw-
fully entering the Capitol. She
pleaded guilty to a single mis-
demeanor charge under a deal
with prosecutors.
On Wednesday, she apolo-
gized to the court, her family
and “the American people,”
saying she went to Washing-
ton that day to peacefully
show her support for Trump.
“I’m ashamed that it be-
came a savage display of vio-
lence that day. And I would
have never been there if I had
a clue it was going to turn
out that way,” Lloyd told the
judge. “It was never my intent
to be a part of anything that’s
so disgraceful to our Ameri-
can people.”
U.S. District Court Judge
Royce Lamberth said he
was giving her a “break,” but
didn’t want others to think
that probation — and not a
stiffer sentence — would be
the norm.
Lamberth said he struggled
with what would be an ap-
propriate sentence for Lloyd
because he views the riot as a
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The project to return fish to
the river revolves around the
Selective Water Withdrawal
tower at the Pelton Round
Butte dam complex, part of
a hydropower system on the
Lower Deschutes that pow-
ers 150,000 homes. The com-
plex, jointly owned by Port-
land General Electric and the
Confederated Tribes of Warm
Springs, includes three dams
along a 20-mile stretch of the
Deschutes River.
The tower accomplishes two
tasks simultaneously — both
creating more natural seasonal
temperature patterns in the
river and collecting fish to be
transferred downstream. A
trap below the dams collects
fish for transfer upstream.
For decades the fish migra-
tion route was severed by the
dams and it will take years to
reestablish the route, so any
improvement in returning fish
numbers is a positive sign that
the system offers tangible ben-
efits.
The 59 chinook released
into the Upper Deschutes were
adults that had previously been
collected as smolts from the
Selective Water Withdrawal
tower. Smolts are juvenile fish
in the stage of their lifecycle
when they are preparing to go
out to sea.
In addition to the 59 chi-
nook, 10 jacks (young adult
males) were also taken from
the Round Butte hatchery
and released into the Metolius
River, said Dobscha.
Fish enthusiasts are also
pleased with this year’s results,
though many hold out hope
for better results in the coming
years.
“Early spring chinook re-
turns are surprisingly good
compared to past years, al-
though they’re still a long way
away from targets,” said Yancy
Lind, a local fish advocate and
blogger.
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That phase is scheduled to
be complete in early 2023.
The bill also sets the experi-
ence rating for businesses for
2022, 2023 and 2024 — used to
determine tax rates — at 2020
levels, which were determined
before the coronavirus pan-
demic resulted in a steep eco-
nomic downturn a year ago.
Many businesses curtailed
their operations, and some
closed, as a result of govern-
ment-ordered shutdowns in-
tended to curb the spread of
COVID-19 in public places.
In December, the Employ-
ment Department announced
that payroll tax rates for 2021
would go up based on a shift
to a different schedule. The
agency also said employer
experience ratings would be
adjusted to reflect employee
layoffs and usage of unemploy-
ment benefits from the state
trust fund — a move affecting
thousands of businesses.
Five lawmakers from both
parties took part in a group
seeking ways to ease the pay-
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Jeremy Puckett, an Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife fisheries
technician, checks for a tag in a spring chinook after it was collected from
a fish trap at the base of the Pelton Round Butte dam complex in 2012.
“Extremely low water in the
Crooked River will not allow
many fish to get very far, but
there are spawning areas in the
lowest reaches, so I’m guard-
edly optimistic,” Lind added.
Lind points out that it is il-
legal to intentionally catch or
keep spring chinook in the
Upper Deschutes Basin (De-
schutes, Metolius and Crooked
rivers), but that poaching is a
problem.
While some of the prog-
ress can be self-managed in
the river, there are some fac-
tors that remain outside of the
project’s control. This includes
ocean conditions and stream-
flow levels.
“Streamflow affects smolt
outmigration, survival and
collection at the Selective Wa-
ter Withdrawal,” said Becky
Burchell, a fisheries biologist
for Portland General Electric.
“It also has an impact on adults
as they migrate into the spawn-
ing tributaries.”
Around 50 of the returned
chinook were given radio tags
so biologists can track the
movements of the fish as they
meander through the upper
basin, said Dobscha. All of the
fish were also given green fish
tags so that they can be easily
identified if spotted or caught.
roll tax burden on businesses
yet maintain the solvency of
the state unemployment trust
fund. They got technical help
from David Gerstenfeld, the
department’s acting director
for almost a year, and agency
staff.
The bill is expected to re-
sult in a savings of $2.4 billion
to Oregon businesses over the
next nine years, while it re-
builds the trust fund to $4.8
billion by the end of the 2023-
25 state budget cycle.
The bill does these things:
• Businesses can defer pay-
ment of up to one-third of
their 2021 payroll taxes until
June 2022 if their tax rate went
up by half a percentage point.
• If the tax rate went up be-
tween 1 and 1.5 percentage
points, a business could be el-
igible for forgiveness of 50%
of the deferred amount, and
if the rate went up between
1.5 and 2 percentage points,
forgiveness of 75% of the de-
ferred amount. But businesses
would be eligible for partial
forgiveness only if they filed
wage reports and paid the rest
of their taxes on time in 2021,
Biologists are not expect-
ing many other types of fish
to appear in the trap this time
of year. In June it’s just spring
chinook and bull trout. Sock-
eye salmon will begin arriving
in July and summer steelhead
will begin arriving in Septem-
ber.
Dobscha said ocean-going
fish are getting some help from
a recently constructed stress re-
lief pond at the juvenile release
site in the Lower Deschutes.
The pond will allow fish addi-
tional time to rest and recover
after handling before their eve-
ning release.
“The extra recovery time
should improve survival
during their ocean-going mi-
gration,” said Dobscha.
PGE is also conducting a
smolt acclimation project, in
which juvenile chinook and
steelhead are held instream for
several weeks prior to release,
said Dobscha. The project is
a joint effort among several
entities, including the Oregon
Department of Fish and Wild-
life, the Confederated Tribes
of Warm Springs and the De-
schutes Land Trust.
Smolt acclimation helps fish
imprint on the water’s unique
scent. It also allows fish time to
fully undergo “smoltification,”
and are current on their ac-
counts with the Employment
Department.
• Employer experience rat-
ings for 2020, which were set
before the onset of the pan-
demic, would be the basis for
payroll tax rates in 2022, 2023
and 2024. It would exclude
2021.
• The Employment Depart-
ment would base its payroll tax
collections for the state trust
fund on a 20-year horizon, in-
stead of the current 10 years,
and the target would be about
10% lower. The state trust fund
was at $5 billion at the start of
the pandemic; it is about $3.7
billion now. The fund is ex-
pected to dip to $3.5 billion
in mid-2023, at the end of the
2021-23 budget period, before
rising back to $4.8 billion two
years later. A legislative report
says the fund should approach
$8 billion by the end of the
2027-29 budget cycle.
The agency has paid out
more than $9 billion in benefits
during the past year, but much
of it was from federal funds.
Oregon was among the few
states that did not borrow from
serious crime. “This wasn’t a
peaceful demonstration the
way it turned out. It was not
an accident,” he said. “It was
intended to and brought a
halt to the very functioning of
our government.”
He said he was “especially
troubled” by some lawmakers
who are seeking to rewrite the
history of the Capitol riot.
“I don’t know what planet
they were on, but there were
millions of people in this
country that saw what hap-
pened on Jan. 6 and that saw
what you saw and what you
just described: a disgrace to
our country,” the judge said.
In a letter to the judge ask-
ing for leniency, Lloyd wrote
that she was a registered
Democrat but that she and
her husband began support-
ing Trump in 2016 because
“he was standing up for what
we believe in.”
which is the physiological
transformation that prepares
fish for their ocean migration,
said Dobscha.
“Acclimation in 2018, 2019
and 2020 greatly improved
our collection of juveniles at
the SWW,” Dobscha said, re-
ferring to the Selective Water
Withdrawal. “This year, for
the first time, 100% of juvenile
fish were acclimated prior to
release.”
Historically, there would
have been more fish than are
currently making their way to
the dams, which were erected
in the 1960s.
The Metolius River and
Whychus Creek had docu-
mented spawning ground
counts between 100 and 648
adults between 1951 and 1958,
per state fish and wildlife biol-
ogists, said Burchell.
Despite the small number of
returning fish, Burchell thinks
there is plenty of room to in-
crease the numbers, and the re-
cent rise in numbers is prom-
ising.
“Our long-term goal is
self-sustaining, harvestable
runs of spring chinook, sock-
eye and summer steelhead in
the Upper Deschutes Basin,
including Whychus Creek, the
Metolius and Crooked rivers,”
said Burchell. “Our vision of
success, which is based on the
current habitat capacity of the
upper basin, is 1,000 chinook
returning each year.”
Burchell explains that the
progress may take years. In the
case of salmon, it could take
three to five generations to es-
tablish baseline data on species
performance. Chinook, she
said, may remain in the ocean
for two to three years before re-
turning to their river spawning
grounds.
“There’s a delay when we’re
assessing the effectiveness of
our management changes,”
said Burchell. “It’s still relatively
early on in a long-term effort.”
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the federal government to pay
unemployment benefits during
the Great Recession a decade
ago. Gerstenfeld said he does
not anticipate this time that the
state will have to borrow. Em-
ployers in states that borrow
repay the costs and interest
through higher payroll taxes.
The Legislative Revenue Of-
fice estimates that based on
current schedules, payroll tax
collections are projected to be
$291 million less in the 2021-
23 cycle, $650 million less in
2023-25, and $840 million in
2025-27.
The bill got endorsements
from the Oregon State Cham-
ber of Commerce, Oregon
Restaurant and Lodging As-
sociation, Oregon Business &
Industry and National Federa-
tion of Independent Business/
Oregon.
Lawmakers who took part
of writing the bill were Reps.
Paul Holvey, D-Eugene, Dan-
iel Bonham, R-The Dalles, and
John Lively, D-Springfield, and
Sens. Chuck Riley, D-Hills-
boro, and Bill Hansell, R-Ath-
ena.
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