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Committee meeting

Committee Meetings and Council Meeting via Webinar

Tuesday, February 7, 2012

Fish and Wildlife Committee - 8:30am

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  • Project Review (MF)
    • Accord Project: Proposal 2008-311-00, Monitoring Wild Populations of  Chinook  and Steelhead in Tributaries of the Lower Deschutes River in the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
    • Quarterly Project: Within-year Project Funding Adjustments for Implementation
  •  Discussion (updated 2/7) of habitat monitoring and reporting strategy by Bonneville Power Administration -  Bill Maslen and Lorri Bodi
  •  Update on Actions to Prevent the Spread of Invasive Mussels in the Columbia River Basin
  •  Follow-up to strategic options for hatchery and CHREET issues
  •  Update on the progress of category reviews

Power Committee - 8:30am

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  • Role of wholesale electricity prices in Council planning
  • Update on Washington state I-937 legislation discussions
  • Actions to address small rural utility conservation needs

Council Meeting - 10:30am

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10:30 - 10:45am

Reports from committee chairs:  Phil Rockefeller, chair, fish and wildlife committee; Jim Yost, chair, power committee; and Bill Bradbury, chair, public affairs committee.

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10:45 - 11am

Public comment on direct use of natural gas paper (Council document 2012-01) and other agenda items

2.

11 - 11:30am

Council decision on Project Reviews:  Mark Fritsch, manager, project implementation.

  • Accord Project: Proposal 2008-301-00, Habitat Restoration Planning, Design and Implementation within the boundaries of the Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon, lower Deschutes River, Oregon. 
  • Quarterly Project: Within-year Project Funding Adjustments for Implementation

3.

11:30 - Noon

Presentation (updated 2/7) on Bonneville’s budgeting process, capital borrowing and rate setting:  Claudia Andrews, Acting Chief Financial Officer, Bonneville Power Administration.

4.  

Noon - 12:30pm

Update on Council’s generating resource database:  Ken Dragoon, senior resource analyst; and Gillian Charles, energy policy analyst.

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12:30pm

Council Business:

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 on each issue as time allows.