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nearly all governments,' a former CIA director says.A4 Dil spill —A pipeline burst in North Dakota last month went unreported for nearly two
weeks.A5 By Dylan J. Darling •The Bulletin Tidet — Buddhist monks say China's intrusive policies are strangling their identity.A6
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PRINEVILLE — An excavator plucked rocks and logs out of Stearns Dam Thursday morning, and the Crooked River began flowing faster through the created notch. The water level in the pool behindthedam began dropping.
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Brendon McClain, an employee with Robinson & Owen Heavy Construction, Inc., opens a breach in Stearns Dam Thursday morning in preparation for its removal. To see video of the work and the fish rescue, visit H www.bendbulletin.com/stearnsdem.
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With buckets end nets inhand, biologists and volunteers search low-water
areas for fish as the Stearns Demis breached in preperation for its removal Thursday morning.
agencies spend money. In this case, it was the Air Force. In 2005, it began a program designed to integrate into one system about 240 outdated computer networks at 600 locations that didn't communicate with each other. It was to manage things such as equipment inventories, contracting, financial administration and personnel assignments. The Air Force first estimated that the Expeditionary Combat Support System would cost $5.2 billion. On Nov. 14, 2012, it said it was canceling ECSS after spending up to $1.03 billion. The system "has not yielded any significant military capability," according to an Air Force statement emailed to reporters. The Air Force estimated it would need $1.1 billion more to complete one-quarter of the originally designed program. Even so, it would not be ready until 2020. SeeTech/A5
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"As the pool drained you started to pretty quickly see the river reforming in its primary channel above the dam," said Chris Gannon, executive
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nearly100 years ago,A4 "It will be marvelous," said Mike McCabe, Crook
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director of the Crooked River Watershed Council. Aftera decade ofnegotiations and planning, the Stearns Dam south of Prineville is coming out. The removal, led by the Watershed Council, should be done in a couple of weeks and the river will flow freethereforthe firsttim e in more than 100 years.
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federal officials, as well as members of the public, who visited the dam removal site in a tour put on by the Watershed Council. The tour drew about 20 people. The dam is about 12 miles downstream from Bowman Dam along state Highway
What began as a county code enforcementissue surrounding PacifiCorp's lease termmation and equipment removal at the historic Cline Falls Power Plant now includes public safety, environmental protection and site cleanup issues. PacifiCorp in February gave notice to Central Oregon Irrigation District that it planned to terminate its Oll A5 100- y ear lease on the power plant, according to COID Manager Steve Johnson. Since then, the two entities have been at odds about the electric company's responsibility for cleaning up and restoring the site about 5 miles east of Redmond on the Deschutes River. COID complained formally to the Deschutes County Historic Landmarks Commission earlier this year, stating it believed PacifiCorp violated county code by removing equipment from the site, which was designated historic in 1992. The commission agreed with COID, stating the historic designation includes the entire site — not just the dam, penstock and powerhouse, the three structures inventoried on the 1992 designation. SeeCline Falls/A5
27. Of those dozen miles, eight are protected under a wild and scenic designation bythe Bureau of Land Management, said Michelle McSwain, assistant field manager with the Bureau of Land Management in Prineville. SeeDam/A4
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WASHINGTON — In an effort to spur lacklustersalesofelectric cars, Oregon, California, New York and six other states said Thursday that they would work jointly to adopt a range of measures, including encouraging more charging stations and
changing building codes, to make it easier to own an electric car. The goal, they said, was to achieve sales of at least 3.3 million vehicles that do not have any emissions by 2025. See Cars/A4
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