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Committee Meetings and Council Meeting Agenda

December 8-9, 2009

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Portland, Oregon (map)
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Tuesday, December 8

Fish and Wildlife Committee  - small conference room – 10:30am

• Project reviews and within-year adjustments - Mark Fritsch
  • Accord project #2008-109-00 (60k PDF), Resident Fish Research, Monitoring and Evaluation
  • Accord project #2007-007-00 (60k PDF), Determine Status and Limiting Factors of Pacific Lamprey in Fifteenmile Creek and Hood River subbasins, Oregon
• Lower Columbia River selective harvest techniques discussion (130k PDF) by WDFW – 11:15am

Power Committee – large conference room – 8:30am

• Update (60k PDF) on analysis status
  • Wholesale power prices
  • $0 to $100 carbon risk scenario
  • Carbon target scenario
  • Other scenarios that are available
• Discussion (60k PDF) of proposed Plan changes by chapter, highlighting treatment of key issues, including:
  • Integration of additional “needs assessment” information
  • Description of resource strategy
  • Revised description of scenarios from updated analysis
  • Dam removal scenario
  • Resource strategy adequacy and reliability
  • Appendix M
  • Appendix Q

The Council will meet in Executive Session at Noon on Tuesday, December 8 to discuss internal personnel matters.

Council Meeting  - large and small conference rooms – 1:30pm

	1:30 – 1:45pm	Greeting from Phil Anderson, director of Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife
	1:45 – 2pm	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.	2 – 5pm	Working session on Draft Sixth Power Plan Issues: Terry Morlan, director, power division. Discussion of proposed Plan changes by chapter, highlighting treatment of key issues, including: Integration of additional "needs assessment" information Description of resource strategy Revised description of scenarios from updated analysis Dam removal scenario Resource strategy adequacy and reliability Appendix M Appendix Q	download 60k PDF

The Public Affairs Committee will meet at the close of business on Tuesday, December 8.

Wednesday, December 9

Continuation of Council Meeting – large and small conference rooms – 8:30am

2.	8:30 – 8:45am	Council decision on project reviews and within-year adjustments:  Mark Fritsch, manager, project implementation. Accord project #2008-109-00 (60k PDF), Resident Fish Research, Monitoring and Evaluation Accord project #2007-007-00 (60k PDF), Determine Status and Limiting Factors of Pacific Lamprey in Fifteenmile Creek and Hood River subbasins, Oregon
3.	8:45 – 9:15am	Briefing on the Quagga-Zebra Mussel Action Plan for Western U.S. Waters: Eileen Ryce, Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks; and Stephen Phillips, Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission.	download 860k PDF video
4.	9:15 – 9:45am	Presentation by Natural Solutions on Innovative Project “Physical and Biological Field Testing of a Flow Velocity Enhancement System (FVES)”: Dr. Charles Coutant, Gordon Burns, and Jean Johnson.	download 60k PDF
	9:45 – 10am	Break
5.	10 – 10:15am	Update on Research Monitoring and Evaluation (RM&E):  Tony Grover, director, fish and wildlife division; and Nancy Leonard, Fish, Wildlife and Ecosystem Monitoring and Evaluation Manager.	download 150k PDF
6.	10:15 – 10:45am	Status report and discussion on the role of the Independent Economic Analysis Board (tentative):  Terry Morlan.	download 60k PDF
7.	10:45am	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: 12/7/2009  2pm