Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement

The Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement, known as the KBRA, is an American multi-party legal agreement determining river usage and water rights involving the Klamath River and Klamath Basin in the states of California and Oregon. Discussion of the agreement began in 2005, and parties included the states of California and Oregon, the Karuk, Klamath and Yurok tribes, several California and Oregon counties, dozens of private individuals, companies and irrigation districts, and conservation groups including California Trout and Trout Unlimited. Congress failed to pass legislation implementing the KBRA by its January 1, 2016 deadline, but a successor agreement, the Klamath Hydroelectric Settlement Agreement, was signed later that year. The four dams covered by that settlement were removed by 2024, and salmon returned to Oregon's stretch of the Klamath Basin for the first time in more than a century.