Amendment process:

• Draft Amended Program and comments
• Program amendment recommendations and comments
• General process schedule (revised Dec 10, 2008)
• October 2007 letter requesting recommendations and press release

Related reports:

• 2000 Columbia River Fish and Wildlife Program
• 2003 Mainstem Amendments

Additional guidance: Our current thinking on key program topics. Please read and consider when developing recommendations.

• Coordination
• Province level biological objectives
• Fish Passage Center Oversight Board considerations
• M&E framework (100k PDF)

Resources:  These published reports and background information will be helpful in preparation of recommendations.

• Northwest Power Act
• Columbia Basin Water Transactions Program Evaluation Report (1.5mb PDF)
• Biological Opinion
• Science Policy Exchange
• Program-related questions to consider
• APRE Reports
• ISAB Climate Change Report
• ISAB Human population Report
• ISAB Supplementation Report
• ISRP Retrospective Report
• Glossary and Acronyms

Other background material:

• NOAA final Columbia-Snake Basin Biological Opinions
• Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives table (400k PDF)
• Libby Dam BiOp Settlement Agreement (50k PDF)
• Willamette Biological Opinion, Part 1 (3mb PDF)
• Willamette Biological Opinion, Part 3 (3mb PDF)