Council Agenda July 11-12, 2006

July 11-12, 2006

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The Council will meet in Executive Session on Tuesday, July 11, at 8:45am to discuss internal personnel matters.

Council Meeting - Meeting Room C

1.	9:30 - 10am	Presentation on tribal sovereignty: Maylinn Smith, Director, Indian Law Clinic, University of Montana.
2.	10 - 11am	Panel on Wind Integration: Jeff King, senior resource analyst; Kevin Conway, Grant County PUD; Casey Johnston, NorthWestern Energy; Elliot Mainzer, Bonneville Power Administration.	Memo Conway Mainzer Johnston
3.	11am - Noon	Presentation on cultural resources and sacred sites: Tim Ryan, Salish-Kootenai Tribes.
	Noon	Comments from former Congressman Pat Williams, Montana.

Fish and Wildlife Committee - 1:30pm - Meeting Room C

Discussion (70k PDF) of Fiscal Year 07-09 funding recommendations
- ISRP programmatic issues (80k PDF) and proposed treatment.
  Also see presentation (110k PowerPoint)
- Update (80k PDF) on basinwide and province recommendations.
  Also see presentation (400k PDF)
Issue development (160k PDF) for Fiscal Year 2007-2009 program funding recommendations
- The next project selection
- The three-step review (30k PDF)
- The within-year process
Within-year project funding
- Summary (130k PDF) of requests for third quarter
- Project 2002-002-00 (120k PDF), Restore Natural Recruitment of Kootenai River White Sturgeon
Review (210k PDF) of provincial objectives issue paper
Comment from the Upper Columbia United Tribes. Representatives of the Upper Columbia United Tribes have requested time on the Committee agenda about pending issues in the FY 2007-2009 project selection process.

Power Committee - 1:30pm - Meeting Room D

Initial results of CO₂analysis (King, 1:30-2:00)
Wind cost assessment presentation (King, 2:00-2:30)
Renewable action plan process (Morlan, King, 2:20-2:30)
Follow up analysis of RPS proposals versus Council plan (Morlan, 2:30-2:45)
Discussion of utility IRPs (Schilmoeller, 3:00-3:30)
Requirements for a new demand forecasting system (Jourabchi, 3:30-4:00)
Preliminary results of aluminum economic effects analysis (Morlan, Jourabchi, 4:00-4:30)
Discussion of possible comments on Regional Dialogue Draft Policy (4:30-5:15)
Updates (10 min each):
- Demand response (Corum)
- Columbia Grid (Gibson)
- Progress on capacity metric and standard for regional adequacy forum (Fazio)
- Progress on implementation procedures for adequacy assessment (Gibson)
- Progress on economic adequacy standard (Fazio)

	8 - 8:15am	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.
4.	8:15 - 8:45am	Council decision on within-year project request: Mark Fritsch, manager, project implementation. Project # 2002-002-00, Restore Natural Recruitment of Kootenai River White Sturgeon	download 120k PDF
5.	8:45 - 10:15am	Status report on Fiscal Year 2007-2009 project selection process: Doug Marker, director, fish and wildlife division; and Patty O’Toole, program implementation manager. Basinwide and province recommendations (400k PDF) Summary and proposed responses to ISRP programmatic issues (110k PowerPoint) Status of rolling issue memo	download 260k PDF
6.	10:30 - 11am	Briefing on fish and wildlife project accomplishments: Bill Maslen, Bonneville Power Administration. Earlier this year the Council requested a report from Bonneville on the performance of ongoing fish and wildlife projects. Bill Maslen, Bonneville’s Director of Fish and Wildlife Division will present the results of their review
7.	11 - 11:30am	Update on Columbia River fish mitigation priorities: Jim Ruff, manager, mainstem passage and river operations.	download 640k PDF

The Executive Committee will meet at 1pm on Wednesday, July 12, to discuss internal personnel matters.

8.	1:30 - 2pm	Presentation on Regional Dialogue Draft Policy: Bonneville.	download 60k PDF
9.	2 - 3pm	Update on juvenile mainstem survival analysis: John Williams, Steve Smith and Bill Muir, NOAA.	download 820k PDF
10.	3pm	Council business: Adoption of Council budget 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: 6/30/2006 10am