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Committee meeting

Steering Committee

Tuesday, December 8, 2009 to Wednesday, December 9, 2009

Tuesday, December 8

Fish and Wildlife Committee  - small conference room – 10:30am

  • Project reviews and within-year adjustments - Mark Fritsch
    • Accord project #2008-109-00 (60k PDF), Resident Fish Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
    • Accord project #2007-007-00 (60k PDF), Determine Status and Limiting Factors of Pacific Lamprey in Fifteenmile Creek and Hood River subbasins, Oregon
  • Lower Columbia River selective harvest techniques discussion (130k PDF) by WDFW – 11:15am

Power Committee – large conference room – 8:30am

  • Update (60k PDF) on analysis status
    • Wholesale power prices
    • $0 to $100 carbon risk scenario
    • Carbon target scenario
    • Other scenarios that are available
  • Discussion (60k PDF) of proposed Plan changes by chapter, highlighting treatment of key issues, including:
    • Integration of additional “needs assessment” information
    • Description of resource strategy
    • Revised description of scenarios from updated analysis
    • Dam removal scenario
    • Resource strategy adequacy and reliability
    • Appendix M
    • Appendix Q

The Council will meet in Executive Session at Noon on Tuesday, December 8 to discuss internal personnel matters.

Council Meeting  - large and small conference rooms – 1:30pm

  1:30 – 1:45pm Greeting from Phil Anderson, director of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife  
  1:45 – 2pm 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.  
1. 2 – 5pm Working session on Draft Sixth Power Plan Issues: Terry Morlan, director, power division.
  • Discussion of proposed Plan changes by chapter, highlighting treatment of key issues, including:
    • Integration of additional "needs assessment" information
    • Description of resource strategy
    • Revised description of scenarios from updated analysis
    • Dam removal scenario
    • Resource strategy adequacy and reliability
    • Appendix M
    • Appendix Q
 download
60k PDF

The Public Affairs Committee will meet at the close of business on Tuesday, December 8.

Wednesday, December 9

Continuation of Council Meeting – large and small conference rooms – 8:30am

2. 8:30 – 8:45am Council decision on project reviews and within-year adjustments:  Mark Fritsch, manager, project implementation.
  • Accord project #2008-109-00 (60k PDF), Resident Fish Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Accord project #2007-007-00 (60k PDF), Determine Status and Limiting Factors of Pacific Lamprey in Fifteenmile Creek and Hood Riversubbasins, Oregon
  
3. 8:45 – 9:15am Briefing on the Quagga-Zebra Mussel Action Plan for Western U.S. Waters: Eileen Ryce, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks; and Stephen Phillips, Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.  download
860k PDF

video
4. 9:15 – 9:45am Presentation by Natural Solutions on Innovative Project “Physical and Biological Field Testing of a Flow Velocity Enhancement System (FVES)”: Dr. Charles Coutant, Gordon Burns, and Jean Johnson. download
60k PDF
  9:45 – 10am Break  
5. 10 – 10:15am Update on Research Monitoring and Evaluation (RM&E):  Tony Grover, director, fish and wildlife division; and Nancy Leonard, Fish, Wildlife and Ecosystem Monitoring and Evaluation Manager. download
150k PDF
6. 10:15 – 10:45am Status report and discussion on the role of the Independent Economic Analysis Board (tentative):  Terry Morlan. download
60k PDF
7.  10:45am Council business: Approval of minutes  

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.