WASHINGTON (KTVZ) — The Department of the Interior announced Friday a $35 million investment in fiscal year 2023 funding from President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for 39 projects in 22 states - including Crook County, Oregon - that will address outdated or obsolete dams, culverts, levees and other barriers fragmenting our nation’s rivers and streams.

The National Fish Passage Program funding includes $400,000 for Phase 2 of the Ochoco Preserve restoration.