SALMON AND SNAKE RIVERS.

SECTION 1. SALMON AND SNAKE RIVERS. (a) The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission shall not issue any preliminary permit, license, or exemption from licensing for the construction of any dam, diversion or bypass under the Federal Power Act (41 Stat. 1063), as amended, on: (1) the Salmon River, Idaho, from Long Tom Bar to the confluence of the Snake River, or (2) the Snake River, Idaho, from the eastward extension of the north boundary of section 1, township 5 north, range 47 east, Willamette Meridian to the pool formed behind Lower Granite Dam. (b) In order to further the purposes of the Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (82 Stat. 906), as amended, and to protect the values for which certain portions of the Salmon River, Idaho and the Snake River, Idaho were designated as components of the system, no dam may be constructed on the segments of the Salmon or Snake Rivers referred to in subsection (a).