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Committee Meetings and Council Meeting Agenda

January 13-15, 2009

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Thursday, January 8

Power Committee Web Conference - 9:00am

• Discussion (230k PDF, updated 1/20) of power plant construction cost, availability, and retirement uncertainty (Schilmoeller)
• Discussion (190k PDF) of electricity price, demand, and gas price uncertainty (Schilmoeller)
  >> Excel Workbook (2.5mb, updated 1/20)
• Revisions (140k PDF) to fuel price forecast in response to comments (Morlan)

Tuesday, January 13

Fish Committee - 8:30am - Blackfoot Room

• Quarterly Review (90k PDF) of within-year Project Funding Adjustments (Fritsch)
• First look (80k PDF) at proposed format of Annual Report on Monitoring and Evaluation (Nancy)
• Discussion (110k PDF) of the guidance document for science review of Accord projects and update on reviews (Palensky)
• Recommendation (100k PDF) for Columbia River Fish Accord project, Genetic Assessment of Columbia River Stocks, Project #2008-907-00 (Fritsch, Palensky)
• Recommendation (70k PDF) on within-year request for Oregon Fish Screens Project, Project #1993-066-00 and in-lieu discussion (Fritsch, Hirotsu)

Power Committee - 8:30am - Bitterroot Room

• Assessment (300k PDF, updated 1/12) of utility-scale solar-photovoltaic generating resource potential (King)
• Revised (250k PDF, updated 1/12) draft Sixth Plan electricity price forecasts (Galbraith)
• Preliminary drafts (60k PDF) of introductory chapters of Sixth Power Plan (Morlan)
• Recommendation (60k PDF) on release of demand forecast for comment (Jourabchi)
• Review (60k PDF) draft fuel price appendix and part of Chapter 5 (Morlan)

Council Meeting - 1pm - Blackfoot Room

	1 - 1:15pm	Reports from Fish and Wildlife, Power and Public Affairs committee chair:  Rhonda Whiting chair, fish and wildlife committee; Melinda Eden, chair, power committee; and Dick Wallace, chair, public affairs committee.
1.	1:15 - 1:45pm	Presentation on release of demand forecast paper for public comment: Terry Morlan, director, power division; and Massoud Jourabchi, manager, economic analysis.	download 200k PDF
2.	1:45 - 2:30pm	Panel on Bonneville Power Administration role in conservation acquisition:  Nancy Hirsh, Policy Director, NW Energy Coalition; Jim Morton, Executive Director, Human Resources Council, District XI, and John Krigger, President of Saturn Resource Management, Inc.	download 60k PDF
3.	2:30 - 3pm	Update on Bonneville Power Administration role in conservation acquisition:  Mike Weedall, Bonneville	download 60k PDF
4.	3 - 3:30pm	Update on generating resource assumptions for draft Sixth Power Plan: Jeff King, senior resource analyst; and Maury Galbraith, resource analyst.	download 420k PDF, updated 1/12
	3 - 3:15pm	Break
5.	3:15 - 3:45pm	Update on conservation resource assumptions for draft Sixth Power Plan: Tom Eckman, conservation resources manager; and Charlie Grist, senior analyst.	download 510k PDF, updated 1/12
6.	3:45 - 4:15pm	Status report on Wind Integration Action Plan: Jeff King and Maury Galbraith.	download 420k PDF, updated 1/12
7.	4:15 - 4:45pm	Update on preliminary drafts of introductory chapters of Sixth Power Plan:  Terry Morlan	download 100k PDF
8.	4:45pm	Council Business: ISAB nominations Discussion of ISAB work assignments Approval of minutes

Wednesday, January 14 - Continuation of Council Meeting - 8:30am - Blackfoot Room

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8:30am - 5pm

Fish and Wildlife Program Amendments work session:  Tony Grover, director, fish and wildlife division; Patty O’Toole, program implementation manager; and Sandra Hirotsu, senior counsel.

Thursday, January 15 - Continuation of Council Meeting - 8am - Blackfoot Room

	8 - 9:30am	Continuation of Fish and Wildlife Program Amendments work session.
10.	9:30 - 10:15am	Council decision on Columbia River Fish Accord project, Genetic Assessment of Columbia River Stocks, Project #2008-907-00: Mark Fritsch, manager, project implementation.	download 100k PDF
11.	10:15 - 10:30am	Council decision on within-year request for Oregon Fish Screens Project, Project #1993-066-00 and in-lieu discussion: Mark Fritsch; and John Shurts, general counsel.	download 70k PDF
12.	10:30 - 11am	Update on High Level Indicators: Tom Karier, Washington Council Member.	download 60k PDF
	11am	Election of Council officers for 2009.

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: 1/9/2009  9am