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Committee Meetings and Council Meeting Agenda

March 14-15, 2006

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Portland, Oregon
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Tuesday, March 14

Fish Committee - 9am - 13^th floor conference room

• Monitoring for the Oregon Plan:  The Coastal Coho Assessment-A Case Study (2mb PDF)
• Recommendation (150k PDF) on within year project funding and implementation
  • Project #1990-044-00, Coeur d’Alene Tribe Habitat Restoration - Trout Pond Stocking
  • Project #2003-114-00, Acoustic Tracking for Studying Ocean Survival
• Issue development (200k PDF) for 2007-2009 project funding recommendations
  • Committee recommendations on FCRPS responsibilities, ESA integration, and overall budget assumptions
  • Committee discussion of monitoring and evaluation framework; and assumptions for use of capital borrowing authority for projects
• Columbia Basin Fish & Wildlife Authority status of the resource report (4mb PDF; large file warning)

Power Committee - 9am - large conference room

• Discussion (60k PDF) of letter on conservation to the Bonneville Power Administration
• Update (150k PDF) on Washington State energy legislation
• Resource Adequacy Update (200k PDF)
• Update (200k PDF) on Regional Transmission Organizations
• Update (220k PDF) on Western Electricity Coordinating Council activities
• Preview (190k PDF) of major power issues for 2006/Power Division workplan
• Report (65k PDF) on the status of the Regional Dialogue

 Council Meeting - 1:30pm - large conference room

	1:30 - 2pm	Reports from Fish and Wildlife, Power and Public Affairs committee chairs; report on February trip to Washington, D.C.; and report on Columbia Basin Trust:  Rhonda Whiting chair, fish and wildlife committee; Jim Kempton, chair, power committee; Larry Cassidy, chair, public affairs committee; and Joan Dukes, Oregon Council Member.
1.	2 - 2:30pm	Update on Pisces Program Reporting:  Bill Maslen; Matt Deniston; and Laurie Perigo, Bonneville Power Administration.	download 380k PDF
2.	2:30 - 2:45pm	Council decision on letter to the Bonneville Power Administration for an annual project review:  Doug Marker, director, fish and wildlife division.	download 60k PDF
3.	3 - 3:15pm	Council decision on letter to the Bonneville Power Administration regarding conservation:  Terry Morlan, director, power division.	download 70k PDF
4.	3:15 - 3:45pm	Presentation by the Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee on the project selection process for 2007-2009:  Shauna McReynolds, PNUCC and others.	download 60k PDF
5.	3:45 - 4:30pm	Presentation by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers on system flood control reconnaissance study: Lonnie Mettler, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.	download 60k PDF
6.	4:30 - 5pm	Status report on power supply outlook for 2006:  John Fazio, senior power systems analyst.	download 650k PDF
7.	5pm	Public comment on Resource Adequacy Issue Paper (Council document 2006-01).

The Public Affairs Committee and the Executive Committee will meet at the close of business on Tuesday, March 14.

Wednesday, March 15 - Continuation of Council Meeting - 8am

8.	8 - 8:45am	Council decision on within year project funding and implementation:  Mark Fritsch, manager, project implementation. Project #1990-044-00, Coeur d’Alene Tribe Habitat Restoration - Trout Pond Stocking Project #2003-114-00, Acoustic Tracking for Studying Ocean Survival Recommendation for funding environmental review of Klickitat subbasin passage improvements	download 600k PDF
9.	8:45 - 9:30am	Briefing on Marine Mammal Protection Act provisions for sea lion protection: Garth Griffin, NOAA Fisheries	download 1.2m PDF
10.	9:30 - 10am	Update on the NOAA hatchery review, on the status of NOAA’s recovery planning effort, and on completion of the AHA data verification effort:  Doug Marker; Peter Paquet, manager, wildlife and resident fish; and Jim Waldo.	download 60k PDF
11.	10:15 - 11am	Presentation by Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde Community of Oregon:  Cheryle Kennedy, Grand Ronde Tribe.	download 60k PDF
12.	11 - 11:30am	Status report on Power Function Review:  Mark Walker, director, public affairs division; Doug Marker; and Sharon Ossmann, administrative officer.
13.	1:30 - 2pm	Briefing on the 25th Anniversary Celebration of the Northwest Power Act:  Steve Wright, administrator, Bonneville Power Administration; and Tom Karier, Council Chair.	download 60k PDF
14.	2 - 2:30pm	Update on governance of non-routine analytical functions of the Fish Passage Center:  Doug Marker.	download 60k PDF
15.	2:30 - 3:15pm	Briefing by the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation:  Joe Peone, fish and wildlife director, Colville Confederated Tribes. First Salmon Ceremony 2005, and Chief Joseph Hatchery Program - Step 2 Fiscal Year 2005 Progress Report	download 1mb PDF
16.	3:30 - 4:30pm	Review of Fish and Wildlife Division workplan:  Doug Marker.	download 80k PDF
17.	4:30 - 5pm	Approval for release for comment of draft Monitoring and Evaluation Guidance document:  Doug Marker; Steve Waste.	download 310k PDF
18.	5pm	Council business: Adoption 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.

Last updated: 3/20/2006 (item 15 presentation, F&W item 1)