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Committee Meetings and Council Meeting Agenda

March 9-10, 2010

Council Central offices
851 SW Sixth Avenue, Suite 1100
Portland, Oregon (map)
503-222-5161  fax 820-2370

Tuesday, March 9

Fish and Wildlife Committee - large conference room – 8:30am

• Update (60k PDF) on Subbasin Plans for the Bitterroot and Blackfoot (Palensky)
• Draft Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Reporting (MERR) plan (1.1mb PDF) (Leonard)
• Update (60k PDF) on RM&E/Artificial Production Category Review and BiOp Fast-track proposals review (Palensky)
• Hatchery Scientific Review Group (HSRG) alternatives (150k PDF) (Paquet)
• Project Reviews (Fritsch): Step Review (9mb PDF, updated 3/5) of Project #1996-040-00, Mid-Columbia Coho Restoration Project

Power Committee – small conference room – 9:30am

• Discussion (60k PDF) of proposed Tradeable Renewable Energy Credits (TRECs) work plan (King)
• Review (60k PDF) of conservation regional entities (Eckman, Grist), also see presentation (500k PowerPoint)
• Discussion (60k PDF) of future agenda items (Morlan)
• Discussion (110k PDF of remaining Sixth Power Plan items, including appendices I and J and the Statement of Basis and Purpose for the Sixth Power Plan and Response to Comments on the Draft Sixth Power Plan (Morlan)

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

	1:30 – 1:45pm	Reports from Fish and Wildlife, Power and Public Affairs committee chairs:  Bill Booth, chair, fish and wildlife committee; Melinda Eden, chair, power committee; and Rhonda Whiting, chair, public affairs committee.
1.	1:45 – 2:15pm	Briefing on 2010 Fishery Forecasts and 2009 Fishery Retrospective: Bill Tweit, WDFW – see presentation (1mb PDF, added 3/10) Ed Schriever, IDFG - see presentation (1.7mb PDF, added 3/10) also see OPB's news story and our video	download 50k PDF
2.	2:15 – 2:30pm	Update on CBFish.org (Taurus website):  Ben Zelinsky, Bonneville Power Administration; Matt Deniston and Dal Marsters, Sitka Technology.	download 1mb PDF
3.	2:30 – 3pm	Council Decision on Project Reviews:  Mark Fritsch, Manager, Project Implementation; Tom Scribner and Keely Murdoch, Yakama Nation. Step Review: Project #1996-040-00, Mid-Columbia Coho Restoration Project	download 8mb PDF updated 3/5
4.	3 – 3:30pm	Discussion on the future role of the Independent Economic Analysis Board (IEAB):  Terry Morlan, director, power division.	download 100k PDF
	3:30 – 3:45pm	Break
5.	3:45 – 4:15pm	Council decision on the adoption of the remaining Sixth Power Plan items, including appendices I and J and the Statement of Basis and Purpose for the Sixth Power Plan and Response to Comments on the Draft Sixth Power Plan:  Terry Morlan; and John Shurts, legal counsel.  (tentative)	download 110k PDF
6.	4:15pm	Council Business: Approval of Annual Report to Congress. The 90-day public-comment period ends Monday, March 1. Because the comment deadline is after the packet deadline for this meeting, a revision-marked version of the report isn't included in the packet, but will be posted here on March 2. To date we have received no comments on the report, but some are expected from Bonneville. Approval of Fish Passage Center Oversight Board member Council decision to release Draft Monitoring, Evaluation, Research and Reporting (MERR) plan for public comment (tentative, added 3/8) Adoption of minutes

The Public Affairs Committee will meet at the close of business on Tuesday, March 9.

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.

To participate by phone in any of the meetings, please call the Council’s central office for the phone-in number.

The Council will meet in Executive Session at 8:30am, Wednesday, March 10, for the purpose of discussing Council organization, structure, procedure and personnel issues.

Last updated: 3/8/2010  1pm