President Joe Biden ordered federal agencies Wednesday to do a 120-day review of how they can help restore wild fish runs in the Columbia River, while supporting hydropower and benefits dams provide to agriculture.

Environmental groups suing the U.S. government over dams welcomed the announcement, but urged the administration to go farther and plan to remove four dams on the Lower Snake River.

The presidential directive didn’t mention dam breaching. Kurt Miller, executive director of the pro-hydropower Northwest River Partners, said the order affirmed the multi-purpose importance of the dams.

“I think the Biden administration agrees with the people who have looked at the issue before them,” he said. “It would be bad for society to get rid of the dams.”

The 120-day review applies to many federal agencies, including the Bonneville Power Administration, Army Corps of Engineers and the Bureau of Reclamation, the lead agencies operating 14 Columbia River dams.

Federal agencies are to stay within their current authority and budgets, according to the order.

Within 220 days, the agencies are expected to report to the White House budget office with proposals for new programs.

Biden also ordered the budget director and White House Council on Environmental Quality to “explore opportunities and mechanisms to develop an intergovernmental partnership” with states and tribes.

Environmental groups involved in a 22-year-old lawsuit pending in the U.S. District Court for Oregon issued a statement saying the order was necessary, but not enough.

“We need a comprehensive plan to breach the dams and replace their services — and we need it now, before our salmon run out of time,” Earthjustice attorney Amanda Goodin said in a statement.

The Biden administration last week announced BPA and the Interior Department would fund a $208 million, 20-year study by three tribes on reintroducing salmon above Grand Coulee Dam.

Biden did not propose any changes to how dams operate. His administration supports “healthy and abundant” native fish runs, a “clean and resilient energy future” and “local agriculture,” the order states.

“It feels like they’re a little bit late to the game,” Miller said. “It’s something the region has already been doing.

“It’s good news for the hydropower system,” he said. “I think a lot of people have been looking for a full-throated support from this administration for dam removal.”

Biden’s order did not mention the 2020 report by federal agencies that favored spilling more water over dams to help fish, but found breaching the Snake River dams would have high social and economic costs.

Barges carrying wheat would be stranded and irrigation pumps would be left high and dry, according to a final environmental impact statement by BPA, the Corps and the reclamation bureau.

Northwest electric rates would go up, blackouts would be more likely and greenhouse gas emissions would rise, according to the report. The agencies said dams couldn’t be breached without congressional approval.