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Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund

This program is intended to restore stocks of Pacific salmon through improvement and recovery of salmon habitat. The program provides grants to the states of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Alaska, and Columbia River and Pacific Coast Indian tribes.

Rating

What This Rating Means

PERFORMING
Moderately Effective

In general, a program rated Moderately Effective has set ambitious goals and is well-managed. Moderately Effective programs likely need to improve their efficiency or address other problems in the programs' design or management in order to achieve better results.
  • The Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund (PCSRF) has developed performance metrics and has shown progress in salmon recovery efforts. Measures include number of stable or increasing populations, acres of habitat restored, and stream miles of habitat made accessible. All targets have been met, though progress towards actual recovery of salmon populations through PCSRF continues to be slow.
  • The PCSRF has not been able to allocate funds based on priority needs of salmon listed as threatened or endangered. However, states select projects based on the state-established priorities and some states provide matching funds. The Administration has proposed a matching requirement and allowing the Secretary to develop guidelines for targeting funding toward restoration of at-risk populations.
  • The program has implemented and adhered to strong financial and management practices and addressed deficiencies when they have arisen. However, the link between resources and performance has not been made explicit in the budget request.

Improvement Plan

About Improvement Plans

We are taking the following actions to improve the performance of the program:

  • Proposing in the President's Budget to allocate funds based on recovery goals for salmon stocks that are listed as threatened or endangered.
  • Proposing in the President's Budget that all states be required to provide a 33% match for Federal funds.
  • Making an explicit link between resources and performance in future budget requests.

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