Fish Passage Center Oversight Board meeting
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Committee meeting

Technical Committee

Tuesday, August 7, 2012 to Wednesday, August 8, 2012

Davenport Hotel
10 South Post Street
Spokane, Washington (map)
509-455-8888

August 7-8, 2012

REVISED AGENDA (changes in red)

Monday, August 6

Fish Passage Center Oversight Board meeting, Davenport Hotel Boardroom

Tuesday, August 7

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

GotoMeeting or conference call 800-786-1922, code 25249455, meeting ID: 742-364-720

  • Project Review
    • Accord Project: Yankee Fork Salmon River Restoration, Project #2002-059-00
    • Quarterly Project: Within-year project funding adjustments for implementation
  • Presentation on policy/ects of supplementation and hatchery policies - Paul Lumley, Executive Director of CRITFC and Gary James, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation
  • Update on program biological objectives
  • Summary of public comments received on the Council's High Level Indicators web-report
  • A Co-Manager's Update on the Status of the Lake Roosevelt Kokanee - Comprehensive Management Plan: Joe Peone, Director of Fish and Wildlife, Colville Confederated Tribes; B.J. Kieffer, Director, Spokane Tribe of Indians Department of Natural Resoures; Steve Pozzanghera, Regional Director, Eastern Region 1, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife

Power Committee - 8:30am - Lincoln Room

GotoMeeting or conference call 800-786-1922, code 58779614, meeting ID: 748-023-329

Council Meeting - 1:30pm - Elizabethan Room

GotoMeeting or conference call 800-786-1922, code 76142266 , meeting ID: 804-524-400

 

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.

 

1:45 - 2pm

Public comment on any issue before the Council

 

1.

2 - 2:30pm

Council decision on Project Reviews

  • Project Review: Within-year project funding adjustment for implementation
  • Step Review:  Crystal Springs Planning and Operations/Maintenance, Project #2008-906-00. Crystal Springs Fish Hatchery and Programs for Snake River Chinook Salmon and Yellowstone Cutthroat Trout.
  • Accord Project: Yankee Fork Salmon River Restoration, Project #2002-059-00

2.

2:30 - 3pm

Update on Efforts to Suppress Northern Pike and Policy Implications:  Deane Osterman, Executive Director of Natural Resources, Kalispel Tribe of Indians; and Jason Connor, Fisheries Project Manager

 

3 - 3:15pm

Break

3.

3:15 - 4pm

Review and summary of predation research:  Peter Paquet, manager, wildlife and resident fish; Jim Ruff, manager, mainstem passage and river operations; and Patty O'Toole, program implementation manager.

4.

4 - 4:30pm

Briefing on Impacts from Hydropower Operations to the Spokane Tribe:  Representatives from the Spokane Tribe.

  

  

Council Business

  • Approval of documentation of Council's final decision in the resident fish, data management and coordination project review(moved 8/2)
  • Council decision to adopt the Report to Governors for Fish and Wildlife Expenditures for 2011 (added 8/2)

Public comment will be taken on any agenda item as time allows.

The Executive Committee will meet in Executive Session to discuss internal personnel matters at the close of business on Tuesday, August 7.

Wednesday, August 8

 The Public Affairs Committee will meet at 8am on Wednesday, August 8.

 8:30am - Continuation of Council Meeting - Elizabethan Room

GotoMeeting or conference call 800-786-1922, code 76142266, meeting ID: 874-096-297

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8:30 - 9am

Presentation by the Upper Snake River Tribes:  Billy A. Bell, Chairman Fort McDermitt Paiute and Shoshone Tribe - USRT Commission Chair; Charisse Soucie, Chairperson Burns Paiute Tribe - USRT Commission Member; Nathan Small, Chairman Shoshone-Bannock Tribes - USRT Commission Member; and Terry Gibson, Chairman Shoshone-Paiute Tribes - USRT Commission Member.

6. 

9 - 9:15am

Introduction to transmission issues:  Howard Schwartz, Washington staff member; and Ken Dragoon, manager, system analysis and generation.

7. 

9:15 - 9:45am

Report from Mid-Columbia utilities on transmission activities:  representatives from Grant PUD and others.

 

9:45 - 10am

Break

8. 

10 - 10:30am

Update on Mid-term Assessment:  Charlie Black, director, power division.

9. 

10:30 - 11am

Mid-term Assessment - Narratives on developments since the Sixth Power Plan:  Charlie Black.

10.

11am

Council Business

Public comment will be taken on any agenda item as time allows.

The times listed for specific agenda items, and the order of those items, are approximate and are subject to change.