The Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fish Commission appreciates this opportunity to provide comments on the draft Federal Columbia River Power System (FCRPS) biological opinion ("BiOp" ) and the All-H Paper. We urge NMFS and the Action Agencies (Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, and Bonneville Power Administration) to use these comments to develop a salmon restoration plan that complies with all applicable laws, including the tribes' treaty rights. Review of the draft BiOp and All-H Paper make it abundantly clear that the federal government needs willing cooperation from the tribes (and states). Without our help, and sincere cooperation from the federal government (and states), many runs of Columbia basin salmon will go extinct. For this cooperation to occur, the federal government will have to make some dramatic changes in its proposals for managing Columbia basin salmon.