IDL Pend Oreille Area Fish Passage #2 proposal 200705600

FY07-09 proposal 200705600

Section 1. Administrative

Proposal title	IDL Pend Oreille Area Fish Passage #2
Proposal ID	200705600
Organization	Idaho Department of Lands
Short description	This project will replace two culverts in County roads associated with IDL lands that are fish passage barriers. Implementation of this project will increase the available habitat for bull trout. This project will be cooperative with Bonner County, ID.
Information transfer	Information transfer will include offering project data on-line.
Proposal contact person or principal investigator

Contacts

Contact	Organization	Email
Form submitter
Pete Van Sickle	Idaho Department of Lands	pvansickle@idl.state.id.us
All assigned contacts

Section 2. Locations

Province / subbasin: Intermountain / Pend Oreille

Latitude	Longitude	Waterbody	Description
48.330021	-116.847405	Big Creek	T58, R4W, Sec 34
48.171740	-116.897961	Springdale Cr.	T56N, R5W, Sec. 25

Section 3. Focal species

primary: Bull Trout
secondary: Kokanee
secondary: Rainbow Trout

Section 4. Past accomplishments

Year	Accomplishments

Section 5. Relationships to other projects

Funding source	Related ID	Related title	Relationship

Section 6. Biological objectives

Biological objectives	Full description	Associated subbasin plan	Strategy
Sub-basin Objective 1B1	Protect and restore instream and riparian habitat to maintain functional ecosystems for resident fish	Intermountain	Strategy a: Develop criteria for prioritizing streams and/or stream reaches for native resident and desirable nonnative fishes Strategy c: Develop and prioritize subbasin-wide habitat protection, resotration, and enhancement measures for native reside
Sub-basin objective 1B4	Develop prioritize, and implement projectrs to remove or reduce sediment sources negatively influencing fish habitat	Intermountain	Strategy a: Develop criteria for prioritizing streams and/or stream reaches for sediment reduction improvements

Section 7. Work elements (coming back to this)

Work element name	Work element title	Description	Start date	End date	Est budget
Install Fish Passage Structure	Increase available habitat	Remove two fish passage blocking culverts with fish passable structures	7/1/2007	10/31/2009	$350,000
Biological objectives			Metrics * # of miles of habitat accessed: 16 miles * Does the structure remove or replace a fish passage barrier?: Yes * Was barrier Full or Partial?: Full

Section 8. Budgets

Itemized estimated budget

Item	Note	FY07	FY08	FY09
Supplies	contract costs including all materials	$0	$250,000	$100,000
Totals		$0	$250,000	$100,000

Total estimated FY 2007-2009 budgets

Total itemized budget:	$350,000
Total work element budget:	$350,000

Cost sharing

Funding source/org	Item or service provided	FY 07 est value ($)	FY 08 est value ($)	FY 09 est value ($)	Cash or in-kind?	Status
IDL	Planning, design, administration of project	$3,600	$7,300	$7,300	In-Kind	Confirmed
Totals		$3,600	$7,300	$7,300

Section 9. Project future

FY 2010 estimated budget: $1,000
FY 2011 estimated budget: $1,000

Comments: On-going ooperational and periodic maintenance of roads and bridges.

Future O&M costs: These costs are annual inspection of structures and periodic maintenance of structures and approach roads.

Termination date: 12/31/2009
Comments: Termination of project occurs when stream crossing structures are installed to project specifications and all payments are completed.

Final deliverables: Fianal deliverables include culverts removed and diosposed and replacement fish passage structures installed and site prepared to specifications.

Section 10. Narrative and other documents

Reviews and recommendations

FY07 budget	FY08 budget	FY09 budget	Total budget	Type	Category	Recommendation
NPCC FINAL FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS (Oct 23, 2006) [full Council recs]
$0	$0	$0	$0	Expense	ProvinceExpense	Do Not Fund
NPCC DRAFT FUNDING RECOMMENDATIONS (Sep 15, 2006) [full Council recs]
$0	$0	$0	$0		ProvinceExpense

ISRP PRELIMINARY REVIEW (Jun 2, 2006)

Recommendation: Response requested

NPCC comments: Numerous items need clarification in a response. Are these culverts actually a barrier for fish passage? How did they select the culverts they plan to work on? What is the value of the habitat they are opening up? Further it should be clarified how many miles of upstream habitat will be accessed. The proposal says 7 in one place and 16 in another. This is basically the same as proposals 200736300 and 200737300, even in that access to 7 miles of stream will be enabled. Does the latter mean that each of the project will provide that much access or that the three projects will in total? A logical case is made to replace these culverts with bridges, but these are two of probably many in the subbasin, so it is unclear why these are the highest priority. Fish (no species indicated) have been observed below the culverts, but no mention is made of occupation of upstream habitat. What is the evidence fish are not passing now, except that culverts do not meet specs? Fish frequently do pass sub-standard structures. The subbasin plan identified fish passage problems such as those that apparently exist here. The Idaho Forest Practices Act and Snake River Basin Adjudication agreement are also cited as justification. This is a stand-alone project. However, the Kootenai Tribe, USFS and others are likely active within this watershed. Perhaps stand-alone means this is not related to any other IDL projects, but it would be useful to know if this project is related to actions on other lands within these stream systems. Collaboration with the county and USFS are listed; the nature of that collaboration is not described, but should be. No monitoring is described for fish passage, use of habitat, or sediment production. Provision for basic M&E, probably by others, should be described in the response.

ISRP FINAL REVIEW (Aug 31, 2006)

Recommendation: Response requested