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Committee Meetings and Council Meeting Agenda

October 16-17, 2007

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Tuesday, October 16

Fish Committee - Blackfoot Room - 8:30am

• Quarterly Review (110k PDF) of within-year Project Funding Adjustments for Implementation:
  • 4th Quarter Summary
• Update (100k PDF) on data management summit
• Discussion (190k PDF) on program amendment
  • Committee recommendation to release call for program amendment recommendations
  • CBFWA Update with Brian Lipscomb and Dave Ward
• CBFWA CSMEP discussion (20k PDF)
• Discussion (70k PDF) on project review process
• Committee discussion (60k PDF) on regional coordination funding proposals for FY 2008-09
• Update (80k PDF) on predator control

Power Committee - Bitterroot Room - 8:30am

• Revised electricity price outlook (220k PDF)
• Bonneville Resource Consistency Determination Process (80k PDF)
• Status report (70k PDF) on Regional Dialogue process
• Discussion (60k PDF) of Efficiency Forum ideas
• Comments (60k PDF) on CO₂ footprint paper
• Update (200k PDF) on Wind Integration Action Plan progress
• Power Division Work Plan (120k PDF)
• Update: Resource Adequacy Progress

Council Meeting - Blackfoot/Bitterroot Room - 1:30pm

	1:30 - 1:45pm	Welcome from James Steele, Jr., Chairman of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.
	1:45 - 2pm	Reports from Fish and Wildlife, Power and Public Affairs committee chairs:  Rhonda Whiting chair, fish and wildlife committee; Jim Kempton, chair, power committee; and Larry Cassidy, chair, public affairs committee.
1.	2 - 2:30pm	Presentation on regional dialogue/residential exchange Bill Drummond, the Manager of the Western Montana Electric G&T Cooperative in Missoula, is a veteran of regional energy issues and has been an active participant in Council and BPA activities for many years. Bill will focus his comments on issues surrounding the ongoing regional dialogue but may touch on other issues as well.
2.	2:45 - 3:30pm	Panel on Program Amendments - State Fish and Wildlife Directors On behalf of the agency directors, Larry Peterman, Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks, Bill Tweit, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife, Tony Nigro, Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife, and Sharon Kiefer, Idaho Department of Fish and Game will share with Council members their agency perspectives on the upcoming fish and wildlife program amendment process. The panel focus will be on the issues that they see as being key in process – specific topics, other ongoing related processes, and overall goals and objectives each have for the process.
3.	3:30 - 4pm	Council decision to release call for Fish and Wildlife Program amendment recommendations:  Patty O’Toole, program implementation manager; Lynn Palensky, program planning and special projects coordinator; Tony Grover, director, fish and wildlife division; and John Shurts, general counsel.	download 130k PDF
4.	4 - 4:15pm	Council decision to approve sixth annual report to the Northwest Governors on Expenditures of the Bonneville Power Administration:  John Harrison, information officer.	download 80k PDF
	4:15pm	Public comment on CO2 footprint paper
		Public comment on any subject before the Council

The Executive Committee will meet in Executive Session at the close of business on Tuesday, October 16.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Continuation of Council Meeting

	8:30 - 9am	Presentation and update on the activities and accomplishments of the Northwest Energy Efficiency Alliance: Margie Gardner, Executive Director.
5.	9 - 9:30am	Presentation on Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribal Energy Development Activities Steve Lozar, Tribal Council Member for the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes and Joe Hovenkotter, Tribal Staff Attorney for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes will discuss current Tribal energy development activities.
6.	9:30 - 9:45am	Presentation on Fishing Contests on Flathead Lake, a Co-Management Strategy to Protect Native Trout Barry Hansen, Tribal Fisheries Biologist with the Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes, will present information related to strategies on Flathead Lake to protect native trout. The Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes have an ongoing joint effort with the State of Montana to control the non-native predacious lake trout population in Flathead Lake.
7.	10 - 10:30am	Report on Science Policy Exchange Conference During the planning of the Science-Policy Exchange, we committed to producing a summary paper of the event. The summary paper is intended to highlight the main points made by the presenters; draw attention to the policy implications and discussion topics; and make relationships to the program, especially with regard to program amendments. Dr. Richard Williams (Rick) moderated the Exchange and is producing the summary from the abstracts, presentations, discussion, and notes. The summary was not available in time for inclusion into the Council packet, but will be available at the meeting. Rick will present a synopsis of the event and an overview of his summary. See abstracts and presentations.	download 1.8mb PDF
8.	10:45 - 11:45am	Presentation on Efficacy of Fish Recovery Programs the Columbia River:  Dr. Jack Stanford, Director, Flathead Lake Biological Station Division of Biological Sciences, The University of Montana.	download 70k PDF
9.	11:45 - Noon	Council decision to release electricity price forecast update for public comment:  Terry Morlan, director, power division.	download 220k PDF
10.	Noon - 12:15pm	Update on data management:  Peter Paquet, manager, wildlife and resident fish.	download 100k PDF
11.	12:15pm	Council business: 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.

Last updated: 10/16/2007  Noon