The Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife is seeking public comments on a request to exempt the fish passage requirements at the Indian Creek culvert on Highway 281 in Hood River County.  Oregon Department of Transportation emergency repairs triggered state fish passage requirements.  ODOT proposes to remove two water diversion structures, remove and replace a road crossing to full fish passage, and move a water return line upstream, adding additional flow instream on Evans Creek, as mitigation for not providing fish passage at the waiver site.  Indian Creek could provide passage for cutthroat trout if passage were provided at the culvert location.  ODFW has made the initial determination that providing the proposed mitigation package at Evans Creek will provide a greater benefit to native migratory fish than providing passage at Indian Creek.  The Fish Passage Task Force will be asked to consider the waiver application on October 15.