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Committee Meetings and Council Meeting Agenda

October 17-18, 2006

Great Northern Hotel
835 Great Northern Blvd
Helena, Montana (map)
406-457-5500   fax 457-5501

To participate in any of the meetings, call our central office, 800-452-5161, for the call-in number.

Tuesday, October 17

Fish and Wildlife Committee - 9am - Empire Builder meeting room

• Continued Discussion and possible recommendation of Fiscal Year 2007-2009 Project Funding Recommendations
• Recommendation on fish and wildlife manager coordination funding

Power Committee  - 9am - Western Star meeting room

• Discussion of resource adequacy capacity metric and targets
• Biennial Review interim assessments
  • Demand forecasts
  • Fuel prices
  • Electricity prices
  • Gas-fired resource costs
  • Resource adequacy
  • Transmission
• Updates:
  • Demand response
  • Regional dialogue
  • Wind

Council Meeting - 1:30pm - Empire Builder meeting room

	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 release resource adequacy capacity metric and target for comment:  Terry Morlan, director, power division; and John Fazio, senior power systems analyst.	download 160k PDF
2.	2 - 2:15pm	Council decision to release commercial MCS implementation specifications for public comment:  Terry Morlan; and Charlie Grist, senior analyst.	download 150k PDF
3.	2:15 - 2:30pm	Briefing on power adequacy assessment for coming winter: John Fazio.	download 60k PDF
4.	2:45 - 4pm	Council decision on Fiscal Year 2007-2009 Project Funding Recommendations: Doug Marker, director, fish and wildlife division; Patty O’Toole, program implementation manager; and John Shurts, general counsel.	download 160k PDF

The Executive Committee will meet at 4pm on Tuesday, October 17 to discuss internal personnel matters.

 The Public Affairs Committee will meet at 4pm on Tuesday, October 17.

Wednesday, October 18

Council Meeting - 8:30am - Empire Builder meeting room

5.	8:30 - 9am	Status of the Resources Report:  Brian Lipscomb, executive director, Columbia Basin Fish and Wildlife Authority.	download 70k PDF
6.	9 - 9:15am	Public comment on Pacific Northwest Resource Adequacy Implementation Plan  (Council document 2006-17).	download 80k PDF
	9:15am - 11am	Council decision on Fiscal Year 2007-2009 Project Funding Recommendations: Doug Marker, Patty O’Toole, and John Shurts.
7.	11am	Council business: Approval of minutes Charter renewal for Independent Economic Analysis Board Council Meeting schedule for 2007

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.

Last updated: 10/9/2006  3pm