1.   Also in the pipeline is a study on Pacific salmon that could help the Clinton administration determine whether to breach several dams on western rivers.

2.   Among other things, the Army Corps of Engineers will need money for an engineering study on breaching the dams.

3.   And there are no guarantees that breaching the dams will bring back the salmon.

4.   Bush has taken a stand foursquare in opposition to any plans to breach the dams.

5.   Bush said that if elected president he will not breach hydro-electrical power dams in the Northwest to spare salmon.

6.   But the main point he made in his speech was that he is unalterably opposed to the idea of breaching the dams along the Snake and Columbia Rivers.

7.   Environmental groups have called for breaching the dams to restore decimated salmon runs.

8.   Frampton said that step was being taken so that if the science later calls for breaching the dams, there would be no unnecessary delay.

9.   He was asked about proposals to breach four dams on the lower Snake River.