Committee Meetings and Council Meeting
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Committee meeting

Fish Passage Center Oversight Board meeting

Thursday, November 12, 2009 to Friday, November 13, 2009

Thursday, November 12

Power Committee – 8:30am – Large conference room
Participate in person or via teleconference (1.800.786.1922, code:58779614#; GoToMeeting: https://www1.gotomeeting.com/join/587528305)

  • Summary (120k PDF, updated 11/12) of analysis and results
  • Proposed (60k PDF) plan changes by chapter
  • Proposal (100k PDF, updated 11/12) for achieving carbon targets at lowest cost
  • Update (75k PDF) on wind renewable energy credits and power exports to California

Fish and Wildlife Committee  - 10a.m. – Small conference room
Participate in person or via teleconference (1.800.786.1922, code 25249455#)

  • AFEP Project (70k PDF):  Jim Ruff, manager, Mainstem passage and river operations
    • Acoustic Telemetry Evaluation of Dam Passage Survival and Associated Metrics at John Day, The Dalles, and Bonneville dams
  • Project reviews and within-year adjustments:  Mark Fritsch, manager, project implementation
    • Quarterly Review (110k PDF): Within-year Project Funding Adjustments for Implementation
    • Accord Project (70k PDF): Project #2008-306-00, Deschutes River Fall Chinook Research and Monitoring
  • Update (70k PDF) on Anadromous RM&E monitoring progress

Council Meeting – 1:30pm – Large and Small conference rooms

  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.  
1.  1:45 – 2:15pm Council decision on project reviews and within-year adjustments: Mark Fritsch, manager, project implementation.

Quarterly Review

  • Within-year Project Funding Adjustments for Implementation

Accord Projects

  • Project #2008-306-00, Deschutes River Fall Chinook Research and Monitoring
  
2. 2:15 – 2:30pm AFEP Project 
  • Acoustic Telemetry Evaluation of Dam Passage Survival and Associated Metrics at John Day, The Dalles, and Bonneville dams:  Jim Ruff, manager, Mainstem passage and river operations.
 download
70k PDF
  2:30 – 2:45pm Break  
3. 2:30 – 4pm Working session on Draft Sixth Power Plan Issues:  Terry Morlan, director, power division.
  • Summary of comments received on the draft plan
  • Summary of significant changes for the final plan
 download
60k PDF

Friday, November 13

Continuation of Council Meeting – 9am

4.  9 – 9:45am Report on conservation achievements for 2008:  Tom Eckman, conservation resources manager; and Charlie Grist, senior analyst. download
390k PDF
  9:45am – Noon Continuation of working session on Draft Sixth Power Plan Issues:  Terry Morlan.  
5. Noon – 12:15pm Update on the Wildlife Crediting Forum:  Peter Paquet, manager, wildlife and resident fish. download
60k PDF
6. 12:15 – 12:30pm Council decision on initiating Fish and Wildlife Program amendment process to add the proposed subbasin plans for the Bitterroot and Blackfoot subbasins:  Lynn Palensky, Program Planning and Special Projects Coordinator; and Kerry Berg, Montana staff member. download
130k PDF
7. 12:30pm Council Business
  • ISRP peer review group appointments
  • Release of Annual Report to Congress for public review
  • 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.