Fish and Wildlife Committee meeting
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Committee meeting

RTF PAC Meeting

Tuesday, October 9, 2012 to Wednesday, October 10, 2012

Grouse Mountain Lodge
2 Fairway Drive
Whitefish, Montana

Note:  The Fish and Wildlife Committee will meet on October 3, at 1:30pm via teleconference to be briefed on the Program Evaluation and Reporting Committee (PERC).

Tuesday, October 9

Power Committee - Glacier Room - 8:30am

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  • Update on Mid-Term Assessment
  • Status of draft 2013 RTF work plan process - Quarterly Regional Technical Forum Progress Report
  • Presentation (updated 10/10)  from Bonneville on Demand Response
  • Wholesale power price forecast
  • Primer (updated 10/25) on carbon emissions

Fish and Wildlife Committee - Continental Divide Room - 8:30am

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  • Committee decision (updated 10/9) on Program Evaluation and Reporting Committee recommendations
  • Discussion of the next Fish and Wildlife Program Amendments
  • Update on the geographic review
  • Update (updated 10/10) on August 2012 Workshop on Legal and Regulatory Efforts to Minimize the Spread of Invasive Mussels by Watercraft Movements in the West

Council Meeting - Continental Divide Room - 1:30pm

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1:30 - 1:45pm

Reports from Fish and Wildlife, Power and Public Affairs committee chairs:  Phil Rockefeller, chair, fish and wildlife committee; Jim Yost, chair, power committee; and Bill Bradbury, chair, public affairs committee.

1. 

1:45 - 2pm

Update on fish and wildlife project geographic review: Lynn Palensky, program development.

2.

2 - 2:15pm

Update on Mid-Term Power Plan Assessment:  Charlie Black, director, power division.

3.

2:15 - 3pm

Presentation on regional Gas-Electric coordination:  Dick Adams, Executive Director, Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee.

 

3 - 3:15pm

Break

4.

3:15 - 4:15  pm

Presentation (updated 10/10) on the transfer of ownership of Kerr Dam:  Brian Lipscomb, Director of Department of Energy, Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.

5.

4:15 - 4:45pm

Council decision on Regional Technical Forum Membership for 2013-2015: Tom Eckman, conservation resources manager; Charlie Grist, senior analyst; and Gillian Charles, energy policy analyst.

The Public Affairs Committee will meet at the close of business on
Tuesday, October 9 in the Continental Divide Room.

Wednesday, October 10

Executive Committee meeting - Continental Divide Room - 8:30am

Continuation of Council Meeting  - Continental Divide Room - 9am

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6.

9 - 10am

Update (updated 10/10) on Program Evaluation and Reporting Committee (PERC): Bill Booth, Idaho Council Member; Tony Grover, director, fish and wildlife division; Lynn Palensky; Nancy Leonard, fish, wildlife and ecosystem monitoring and evaluation manager; and Peter Paquet, manager, wildlife and resident fish.

 

10 - 10:15am

Break

7.

10:15 - 11am

Briefing (updated 10/10) on Montana Public Service Commission evaluation of utility IRP best practices:Jason Brown, Montana PSC.

8.

11 - 11:15am

Progress Report on Fish Tagging - IEAB Task order on Fish Tagging Forum:  Tony Grover.

9.

11:15am

Council Business

  • Approval of minutes
  • Extension of Sapere contract for Fish Tagging Forum
  • Approval of contract with Jeff King

Public comment will be taken on any issue as time allows.

Council Members will meet with Columbia Basin Trust representatives at the close of business of the Council Meeting on Wednesday, October 10, in the Continental Divide Room