Fish Passage Center Oversight Board meeting Committee Meetings and Council Meeting

Tuesday, August 11

Fish and Wildlife Committee - 8:30am -Elizabethan Room

  • Project reviews and within-year adjustments

Accord Projects

BiOp Project

3rd Quarter Projects (110k PDF)

  • Update (60k PDF) on RM&E and Artificial Production Category Reviews, plus presentation (370k PowerPoint, added 8/11)
  • Options (140k PDF) for consideration of HSRG recommendations
  • Charter and schedule (70k PDF) for Wildlife Crediting Forum

Power Committee - 8:30am - Early Bird Room

  • Discussion (60k PDF) of changes to July 24th draft Sixth Power Plan and MCS Appendix
  • Status (60k PDF) of draft Sixth Power Plan Appendices
  • Draft cover letter (80k PDF) and issues for comment on the Draft Sixth Power Plan
  • Draft Power Point (120k PDF) on Draft Sixth Power Plan

Council Meeting - 1:30pm - Early Bird Room

  1:30 - 1:45pm Reports from Fish and Wildlife, Power and Public Affairs committee chair:  Rhonda Whiting chair, fish and wildlife committee; Melinda Eden, chair, power committee; and Dick Wallace, chair, public affairs committee. download
70k PDF
1.  1:45 - 5pm Council work session on development of the draft Sixth Power Plan:  Terry Morlan, director, power division.
  • Discussion (80k PDF) of draft plan chapters, MCS Appendix, and status of other appendices
  • Draft presentation (120k PDF) on Sixth Power Plan
  • Discussion (80k PDF) of hearings schedule for the Sixth Power Plan
 

Wednesday, August 12 - Continuation of Council Meeting

2.  8:30 - 10:30am Council decision to release the Draft Sixth Power Plan for public comment:  Terry Morlan, director, power division. 

The Executive Committee will meet in executive session to discuss personnel matters at 11:15am in the Early Bird Room.

The Public Affairs Committee will meet at 11:15am in the Davenport Boardroom

3.  1:30 - 2pm Council decision on project reviews and within-year adjustments:  Mark Fritsch, manager, project implementation.

 
Accord Projects

 
BiOp Project

 
3rd Quarter Projects (110k PDF)

 
4.  2 - 2:30pm Presentation by Colville Tribe on Selective Harvest:  Joe Peone, Director of Fish and Wildlife for the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation, Virgil Seymour, Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation Natural Resource Chair, Mike Finley, Chairman of the Colville Business Council, and Salmon Harvest Biologists Keith Kutchins and Michael Rayton, will present the results from the second year of the selective harvest study. This study is part of the research conducted for the Chief Joseph Hatchery. The purpose of this research is to test the live capture of fish for mark selective harvest. download
16mb PDF added 8/13
5. 1:30-2pm Follow-up actions from the US Bureau of Reclamation’s invasive mussel presentation: Jim Ruff, Manager, Mainstem Passage and River Operations; and Eric Anderson, Idaho State Representative, Priest Lake, Idaho. download
1.5mb PDF
updated 8/11
6. 3pm Council Business:
    • Approval of minutes
    • Charter and schedule for Wildlife Crediting Forum
    • Approval of the Council’s Annual Report to the Governors on fish and wildlife spending
    • Financial disclosure statements
download
70k PDF

The times listed for specific agenda items, and the order of those items, are approximate and are subject to change. Public comment will be taken after each agenda item as time allows.