The Edwards Dam's license expired in 1997, and the dam owners wished to renew it.

FERC offered two choices to the dam owners:

Still, some dam owners think the state is moving too quickly.

"They're coming down on dam owners, one by one."

The dam owner would have been within his legal rights to dismantle the dam, thereby reducing the lake to a swampy marsh land.

The dam owners started to lease access to the dam, soon after GoldenEye was released, to a commercial bungee jump operator.

Requires the dam owner to reimburse the Secretary for expenses.

The rest would be used to fix dams: $15 million to pay for state projects and $95 million in loans to private and municipal dam owners.

The parties spent the first decade negotiating the construction of upstream fish ladders with various dam owners.

There was little damage to the steel part of the dam, but with the mining operations stopped, the dam owners had the spillway valves opened.