Generating Resources Advisory Committee Meeting
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Committee meeting

Power Committee Web Conference

Tuesday, May 12, 2009 to Wednesday, May 13, 2009

Thursday, May 7

Power Committee Web Conference 9:00 - 11:00am

  • Report (520k PDF, updated 5/12) on portfolio analysis
  • Action plan discussion (60k PDF)
  • Status (60k PDF) of Direct Use of Natural Gas contract
  • Discussion (60k PDF) of individual chapter drafts
  • Revisions (100k PDF) to geothermal assumptions

Tuesday, May 12

Power Committee - 8:30 - 11:30am

  • Discussion (340k PDF, updated 5/12 5/13) of portfolio analysis results
  • Accounting for costs and rate effects (170k PDF, updated 5/11)
  • Capacity and flexibility (120k PDF, updated 5/12) in the power plan
  • Discussion (120k PDF, updated 5/12) of plan focus and executive summary emphasis
  • Treatment (60k PDF) of smart grid

Fish and Wildlife Committee - 8:30 - 11:30am

  • CBFWA presentation (60k PDF) on draft Status of the Resource Report
  • Update (70k PDF) on Categorical Reviews, including BPA FY 2010 budget discussion
  • Multi-year action plans (130k PDF)
  • Preview (1mb PDF) of www.cbfish.org (aka Taurus) by Ben Zelinsky; and Matt Deniston, Bonneville Power Administration
  • Monitoring and Evaluation facilitated technical workshop (60k PDF)
  • Project Reviews and quarterly review of within-year adjustments:
    • Step Review: Chief Joseph Dam Hatchery Program (70k PDF), Project # 2003-023-00
    • Accord Project: Restore Potlatch River Watershed (60k PDF), Project #2002-061-00
    • Quarterly Review:
      • Deferred fourth quarter 2008 within-year project funding request (120k PDF) for Project 2007-127-00, Reestablish Connectivity and Restore Fish Habitat in the East Fork of the South Fork Salmon River Watershed
      • Council decision (100k PDF) on Quarterly Review of Within-year Funding Adjustments for Implementation
      • Change in process (70k PDF) on adoption of within-year adjustments

Council Meeting - Renaissance Room - 1pm

1.  1 - 1:15pm Welcome to Walla Walla by Lieutenant Colonel Michael J. Farrell, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Walla Walla District.  
  1:15 - 1:30pm Invocation by Jay Minthorn, Board of Trustees, Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation.  
  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.  
2. 1:45 - 2:30pm Council decision on project reviews and quarterly review of within-year adjustments:  Mark Fritsch, manager, project implementation.
  • Step Review: Chief Joseph Dam Hatchery Program (70k PDF), Project # 2003-023-00
  • Accord Project: Restore Potlatch River Watershed (60k PDF), Project #2002-061-00
  • Quarterly Review:
    • Deferred fourth quarter 2008 within-year project funding request (120k PDF) for Project 2007-127-00, Reestablish Connectivity and Restore Fish Habitat in the East Fork of the South Fork Salmon River Watershed
    • Council decision (100k PDF) on Quarterly Review of Within-year Funding Adjustments for Implementation
    • Change in process (70k PDF) on adoption of within-year adjustments
  
  2:30 - 2:45pm Break  
3. 2:45 - 3pm Discussion of possible M&E workshop: Tony Grover, director, fish and wildlife division. download
60k PDF
4. 3 - 3:30pm Presentation by the Confederated Tribes of the Umatilla Indian Reservation and discussion of First Foods program:  Eric Quaempts, director, CTUIR Department of Natural Resources.  
5. 3:30-4pm Presentation regarding energy-efficiency issues facing small consumer-owned utilities: Mike Charlo, electricity superintendent, Milton-Freewater City Light and Power  
6.  4pm Council business:
  • Approval of minutes
  • Council decision to release Fiscal Year 2011 and revised Fiscal Year 2010 budget for public comment
  • Council decision to release Council’s draft annual report to the Northwest governors on expenditures of the Bonneville Power Administration for public comment
  • Estuary science and policy exchange discussion
  • Update on status of findings for the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program
  

The Public Affairs Committee will meet at the close of business on Tuesday, May 12.

Wednesday, May 13 - Continuation of Council Meeting - 8:30am

7.  8:30am Council work session on development of the Sixth Power Plan

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.