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Committee Meetings and Council Meeting Agenda

June 10-11, 2008

The Davenport Hotel
10 South Post Street
Spokane, Washington (map)
509-455-8888  fax 624-4455

To participate in any of the meetings, call our central office, 800-452-5161, for the call-in number.

Note: Some Council Members may take a tour of Grand Coulee Dam on Monday, June 9, with representatives of the Columbia Basin Trust.  There will be a Council/Columbia Basin Trust business meeting and dinner on Monday, June 9, at the Davenport Hotel, at 7pm

Tuesday, June 10

Council meeting - Early Bird Room - 8:30am

8:30 - 8:45am	Report on meeting with the Columbia Basin Trust:  Bruce Measure, Council Vice Chair; and Garry Merkel, Chair, Columbia Basin Trust.
8:45am - 10:30am	Comment on recommendations on the Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program amendments.
10:30am - Noon	Council work session on Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program amendments.
Lunch break
1:30 - 4pm	Continuation of Council work session on Columbia River Basin Fish and Wildlife Program amendments.

The Executive Committee will meet in Executive Session at the close of business on
Tuesday, June 10, in the Early Bird Room.

Wednesday, June 11

Power Committee - Flowerfield Room - 9am

• Short-term demand forecast (160k PDF, updated 6/9) (Jourabchi)
• Resource adequacy assessment (500k PDF) (Fazio)
• Analysis (195k PDF, updated 6/9) of higher fuel price assumptions on marginal CO₂ rates (Galbraith, King)
• Introduction (245k PDF) to conservation assessment (Eckman, Grist, Jourabchi)

Fish Committee - Early Bird Room - 9am

• Review (110k PDF) of the follow-up actions from the Fiscal Year 2007 - 2009 recommendations
• Status of the resource report - CBFWA

Continuation of Council Meeting - Early Bird Room - 1pm

	1 - 1:15pm	Reports from Fish and Wildlife, Power and Public Affairs committee chairs:  Rhonda Whiting chair, fish and wildlife committee; Melinda Eden, chair, power committee; and Dick Wallace, chair, public affairs committee.
1.	1:15 - 1:45pm	Briefing on Bonneville Power Administration transmission activity:  Brian Silverstein, Bonneville Power Administration.	download 1mb PDF
2.	1:45 - 2:15pm	Presentation by Pacific Northwest Utilities Conference Committee on Northwest Regional Forecast:  Dick Adams, Executive Director.	download 220k PDF
3.	2:15 -2:45pm	Presentation by the EPA on the draft “State of the River” report on the Columbia River:  Ann Williamson, Deputy Director, Office of Environmental Assessment and Mike Cox, Manager, Risk Assessment Unit, Office of Environmental Assessment, Region X.	download 50k PDF updated 6/13
	2:45 - 3pm	Break
4.	3 - 3:30pm	Presentation by NOAA Northwest Fisheries Science Center on the effects of toxic contaminants on salmonids:  Dr. Tracy Collier, Director of the Environmental Conservation Division, NOAA Science Center.	download 60k PDF
5.	3:30 - 3:45pm	Council decision to release high level biological and implementation indicators report for public comment:  Dr. Tom Karier, Washington Council Member, will present to the Council draft high level biological and implementation indicators and seek Council concurrence to release the indicators for public comment. A meeting to discuss the indicators occurred in Spokane on Thursday, May 29th, which made it impossible to include the final document in this packet. It will be distributed to Council members before the Council meeting on June 11.	download 10k PDF
6.	3:45 - 4pm	Public comment on Council’s draft Fiscal Year 2009 revised budget and Fiscal Year 2010 proposed budget (Council document 2008-04).
7.	4pm	Council Business: Approval of minutes Approval of final report to the governors on Bonneville fish and wildlife expenditures Approval of appointment of  Brian Marotz of Montana to the Fish Passage Center Oversight Board

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: 6/9/2008  1pm