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Committee Meetings and Council Meeting Agenda

June 13-14, 2006

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Tuesday, June 13

Fish and Wildlife Committee - Garden Room - 8am

• Decision (190k PDF) on within-year project requests
  • UPA Snake River Sockeye facility upgrade
  • Project #1989-024-01, Umatilla Juvenile Outmigration and Survival
  • Project #1997-013-25, Yakima-Klickitat Fisheries Program O&M
• Summary (60k PDF) of ISRP review of 2007-09 proposals
• Discussion (240k PDF) of provincial objective amendments
• Issue development (180k PDF) for 2007-2009 program funding recommendations
  • Staff recommendation for Program operation and maintenance
  • Discussion of Fiscal Year 07-09 within-year budget adjustment process
  • Discussion (80k PDF) of M&E framework - public comments
  • Bonneville Power Administration letter (320k PDF) on ESA implementation
• Report (60k PDF) on province and mainstem system-wide project prioritizations

Power Committee - LeBois Room - 8am

• Public Power Council allocation proposal (390k PDF)
• Renewable portfolio standards and Power Plan (70k PDF)
• Status report (70k PDF) on review of regional economic effects of aluminum industry (70k PDF)
• Resource Adequacy Forum implementation process (390k PDF)
• Resource Adequacy Forum capacity metric and target (160k PDF)
• Indicators (370k PDF) of resource adequacy levels (390k PDF)
• Public comment (390k PDF) on change to action item CNSV-3
• Discussion (390k PDF) of proposal for a wind integration study forum

Council Meeting - Garden Room - 1:30pm

	1:30 - 1:45pm	Reports from Fish and Wildlife, Power and Public Affairs committee chair: Rhonda Whiting, chair, fish and wildlife committee; Jim Kempton, chair, power committee; and Larry Cassidy, chair, public affairs committee.
1.	1:45 - 2pm	Council decision to approve joint Bonneville/Council wind confirmation process:  Terry Morlan, director, power division; and Jeff King, senior resource analyst.	download 90k PDF
2.	2 - 2:30pm	Presentation on the status of the Northern California Current Ecosystem and its relationship to the productivity of Columbia River salmon:  John Ferguson, Director, Fish Ecology Division and Dr. Ed Casillas, Manager, Estuarine and Ocean Ecology Program.	download 160k PDF
3.	2:45 - 3:45pm	Briefing on Columbia River Salmon and Steelhead Harvest Management:  Guy Norman, Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife.	download 970k PDF
4.	3:45 - 4pm	Briefing on the efficiency provisions of EPAct:  Tom Eckman, conservation resources manager.	download 1mb PDF
5.	4 - 4:15pm	Briefing on Bonneville’s conservation achievements report:  Tom Eckman.	download 380k PDF
6.	4:15 - 5pm	Presentation on adult conversion rates through the mainstem Snake and Columbia rivers:  Ritchie Graves, acting FCRPS Branch Chief, National Marine Fisheries Service. Rates upstream of Wells Dam (60k Excel) Rates upstream of Lower Granite (100k Excel)	download 60k PDF
7.	5pm	Public comment on Northwest Power and Conservation Council Draft Fiscal Year 2008 Budget and Fiscal Year 2007 Revisions (Council document 2006-06).

The Council will meet in Executive Session at the close of business on Tuesday, June 13,
to discuss Council organization, structure, and procedure.

Wednesday, June 14 - Continuation of Council Meeting - 9am

The Public Affairs Committee will meet at 8am on Wednesday, June 14 in the Garden Room.

8.	9 - 9:30am	Remarks by Idaho Governor James Risch	video
9.	9:30 - 10am	Council decision on within-year project requests:  Doug Marker, director, fish and wildlife division; and Mark Fritsch, manager, project implementation. UPA Snake River Sockeye facility upgrade Project #1989-024-01, Umatilla Juvenile Outmigration and Survival Project #1997-013-25, Yakima-Klickitat Fisheries Program O&M	download 190k PDF
10.	10:15 - 11:30am	Presentation on ISRP review of 2007-2009 project selection: Dr. Eric Loudenslager, Chair, Independent Scientific Review Panel; and Dr. Rick Williams, Peer Review Group.	download 2.4mb PDF
11.	1 - 1:30pm	Council decision on ISAB mainstem peer review group:  John Shurts, general counsel; Jim Ruff, manager, mainstem passage and river operations; and Erik Merrill, ISRP/ISAB coordinator.	download 70k PDF
12.	1:30 - 2pm	Presentation on the Columbia Basin’s Role in the North Pacific — The Stronghold Approach to Salmon Conservation:  Paula Burgess, Greg Block, and Malin Pinsky, Wild Salmon Center.	download 60k PDF
13.	2pm	Council Business: Adoption of minutes Council approval to release Draft Fifth Annual Report to the Northwest Governors on Expenditures of the Bonneville Power Administration (Council Document 2006-09) for public comment

The Council will meet in Executive Session at the close of business on Wednesday, June 14, to discuss Council organization, structure, procedure and internal personnel matters.

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: 6/7/2006  1pm