FY 2002 Columbia Plateau proposal 200202300
Contents
Section 1. General administrative information
Section 2. Past accomplishments
Section 3. Relationships to other projects
Section 4. Budgets for planning/design phase
Section 5. Budgets for construction/implementation phase
Section 6. Budgets for operations/maintenance phase
Section 7. Budgets for monitoring/evaluation phase
Section 8. Budget summary
Reviews and Recommendations
Additional documents
Title | Type |
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25024 Narrative | Narrative |
Overview Powerpoint Presentation | Powerpoint Presentation |
Overview Powerpoint Presentation | Powerpoint Presentation |
Columbia Plateau: Yakima Subbasin Map with BPA Fish & Wildlife Projects | Subbasin Map |
Columbia Plateau: Yakima Subbasin Map with BPA Fish & Wildlife Projects | Subbasin Map |
Section 1. Administrative
Proposal title | Yakima-Klickitat Fisheries Project - Wilson Creek Snowden Parcel Acquisition |
Proposal ID | 200202300 |
Organization | Yakima-Klickitat Fisheries Project - Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife lead agency (YKFP/WDFW) |
Proposal contact person or principal investigator | |
Name | Brent Renfrow |
Mailing address | 201 N. Pearl Ellensburg, WA 98926 |
Phone / email | 5099251013 / renfrbr@dfw.wa.gov |
Manager authorizing this project | Ted Clausing |
Review cycle | Columbia Plateau |
Province / Subbasin | Columbia Plateau / Yakima |
Short description | Proposal is to acquire a portion of Wilson Creek, and its associate floodplain at Ellensburg, Washington, and perform riparian restoration activities. |
Target species | 13 fish species including steelhead and spring chinook |
Project location
Latitude | Longitude | Description |
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46.98 | -120.55 | Wilson Creek near Mattoon Lake |
Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives (RPAs)
Sponsor-reported:
RPA |
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Relevant RPAs based on NMFS/BPA review:
Reviewing agency | Action # | BiOp Agency | Description |
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NMFS | Action 150 | NMFS | In subbasins with listed salmon and steelhead, BPA shall fund protection of currently productive non-Federal habitat, especially if at risk of being degraded, in accordance with criteria and priorities BPA and NMFS will develop by June 1, 2001. |
Section 2. Past accomplishments
Year | Accomplishment |
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NA |
Section 3. Relationships to other projects
Project ID | Title | Description |
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Wilson Creek Fish Protection and Passage Restoration/ YKFP-Yakama Nation | Restoration of fish passage in adjoining segments of stream. Yakama Nation effort is complementary to project. |
Section 4. Budget for Planning and Design phase
Task-based budget
Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2002 cost | Subcontractor |
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Outyear objectives-based budget
Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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Outyear budgets for Planning and Design phase
Section 5. Budget for Construction and Implementation phase
Task-based budget
Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2002 cost | Subcontractor |
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Purchase Property | Property Acquisition | 1 | $150,000 | |
Riparian Restoration | Plant native trees and shrubs | 1 | $15,000 | Yes |
Project Administration | Administor Grant 25.2% | 1 | $41,580 |
Outyear objectives-based budget
Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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Monitor plants | 2003 | 2004 | $0 |
Outyear budgets for Construction and Implementation phase
Section 6. Budget for Operations and Maintenance phase
Task-based budget
Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2002 cost | Subcontractor |
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Outyear objectives-based budget
Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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Outyear budgets for Operations and Maintenance phase
Section 7. Budget for Monitoring and Evaluation phase
Task-based budget
Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2002 cost | Subcontractor |
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Monitoring property | Stream Surveys | 1 | $0 |
Outyear objectives-based budget
Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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Monitoring | 2003 | 2006 | $0 |
Outyear budgets for Monitoring and Evaluation phase
Section 8. Estimated budget summary
Itemized budget
Item | Note | FY 2002 cost |
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Supplies | 7,000 | $7,000 |
Capital | 150,000 | $150,000 |
Subcontractor | 8,000 | $8,000 |
Other | Administration @ 6% = $9,720 | $9,720 |
$174,720 |
Total estimated budget
Total FY 2002 cost | $174,720 |
Amount anticipated from previously committed BPA funds | $0 |
Total FY 2002 budget request | $174,720 |
FY 2002 forecast from 2001 | $0 |
% change from forecast | 0.0% |
Reason for change in estimated budget
NA
Reason for change in scope
NA
Cost sharing
Organization | Item or service provided | Amount | Cash or in-kind |
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Northwest Service Academy | Annual Monitoring | $2,000 | in-kind |
WDFW Land Services | Property Management | $5,000 | in-kind |
Other budget explanation
NA
Reviews and recommendations
This information was not provided on the original proposals, but was generated during the review process.
Fundable only if response is adequate
Jun 15, 2001
Comment:
Fundable only if priority is justified in a response. How does it fit into an overall plan for the Yakima Basin? The project would purchase 30 acres of sheep pasture at $5000 per acre. The review panel apparently drove past or near this on the field tour but unfortunately the project was neither visited nor mentioned. The proposal only minimally describes the project. A map is needed. Benefits to summer steelhead and resident trout are noted but not detailed, and the property is adjacent to a popular recreation lake. It would in theory complement YN habitat efforts on Wilson Creek, but such specific ties and benefits are not described. It also purports to increase instream flows, but by how much? This purchase is only likely to provide benefits as part of the larger Wilson Creek restoration and water rights program.
Comment:
M&E fits under the YKFP umbrella. This project ties closely with work that has been completed under the "Reestablish Safe Access" project number 199803400.* Identified by the CBFWA as a proposal that could potentially be implemented as High Priority projects pending crediting resolution with BPA and NWPPC. The CBFWA will formally request a policy level meeting to resolve this issue.
Comment:
* Identified by the CBFWA as a proposal that could potentially be implemented as High Priority projects pending crediting resolution with BPA and NWPPC. The CBFWA will formally request a policy level meeting to resolve this issue.Comment:
Fundable, but priority of this site is uncertain based on the materials provided. The response provided relatively little new insight into possible fish and fishery benefits from this project, except to reinforce how heavily altered the system is and how its remediation will be costly in terms of dollars and time. In the absence of a clear understanding of the potential of this project, its limiting factors, and especially how it fits into some overall plan for Wilson Creek, the reviewers feel they have little choice but to view this as fundable but at a low priority. The map was helpful.See detailed ISRP comments on the YKFPs.
Comment:
Statement of Potential Biological Benefit to ESUAcquisition would protect parcel of land in lower Wilsons Creek, a stream in which passage is being restored. If not protected, parcel will likely be developed in very near future.
Comments
Acquisition compliments significant other habitat investments in same creek system.
Already ESA Req? no
Biop? yes
Comment:
Somewhat degraded area; may not be consistent with Program or NMFS’ Biological Opinion. Land acquisitions should be deferred until the development of sub-basin plans and BPA’s land and water acquisition policies.Comment:
New proposals in the Yakima subbasin
As discussed in the general issues of this memorandum, there is not sufficient funding to initiate all of the new proposals that were rated as "fundable" by the ISRP and rated as "High Priority" by CBFWA in the Columbia Plateau province within the basinwide funding target of $186 million for Fiscal Year 2002. This is because funding all such proposals would not leave sufficient funds to initiate new proposals in the provinces that remain to be reviewed in the provincial review process. Therefore, the Council and its staff have worked with local entities to further prioritize new work, and asked them to put a premium on new work that represents consensus of the state and tribal resource managers that is consistent with Bonneville's BiOp needs. In the Yakima subbasin a collaborative effort was undertaken to prioritize Fiscal Year 2002 new needs along these guidelines. The following new proposals are those that were rated in this process as the highest priority at this time:
Project ID: 25024: Yakima-Klickitat Fisheries Project - Wilson Creek Snowden Parcel Acquisition
NMFS has designated this project as corresponding directly to RPA action item 150, which seeks to protect currently productive non-federal habitat in subbasins with listed species.
Budget effect on base program (Project 25024):
FY 2002 | FY 2003 | FY 2004 |
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Increase $206,580 | 0 | 0 |
Habitat acquisition proposals.
There are many proposals (both new and ongoing) that focus on habitat acquisition in the Yakima subbasin (25002, 25020, 25024, 25025, 25032, 25078, 199206200, 199603501, and 199705100). Some of these proposals focus on acquisitions of habitat primarily as a strategy to benefit listed anadromous fish, others appear to focus on habitat for wildlife, and others appear to address both. Given the limits available under the target budget for Fiscal Year 2002, each of these projects cannot be fully funded. In order to prioritize among these proposals, the Council may wish to consider the following. First, as stated throughout this memorandum, those proposals that received consensus support by local resource managers that are consistent with the BiOp or are consistent with its off-site mitigation strategy are favored. This would prioritize those acquisition proposals that are exclusively or primarily designed to benefit anadromous fish. Further, the Council should consider its program language that puts a priority on mitigating for wildlife habitat losses in areas of the basin where mitigation efforts have lagged. This program principle was one of the driving considerations for the Council's support for extensive habitat acquisition funding in the Mountain Columbia and Inter-Mountain provinces completed earlier. The Yakima subbasin has received substantial mitigation funding for construction/inundation losses to wildlife habitat in the past, and is not, relatively speaking, an area where wildlife mitigation efforts are lagging behind.
Projects 25024, 25025, 25078, 199603501, 199206200 and 199705100 all have a substantial focus on protecting habitat for listed anadromous fish in the Yakima subbasin. In addition, the first five of those projects were identified in the local collaborative process as priority projects. (See Yakima Issues 1 and 2 above). On the other hand, project 25020, 25002, and 25032, while apparently meritorious projects based on the ISRP and CBFWA reviews, have a substantial wildlife habitat component.
Staff recommendation: In light of the above considerations -- emphasis on anadromous fish, local priorities, the Yakima subbasins relatively advanced level of wildlife mitigation for construction losses -- the staff recommendation is to support funding for the proposals that focus on anadromous fish benefits -- 25002, 25024, 25025, 25078, 199603501, and 199705100. The amounts of funding for each of those proposals have been discussed identified in the issues discussed previously.
Budget effect on base program (Projects 25002, 25020, 25024, 25025, 25032, 25078, 199206200, 199603501, and 199705100):
ProjectNo | FY 2002 | FY 2003 | FY 2004 |
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25078 | Increase of $875,000 | Increase of $875,000 | 0 |
Comment:
Comment:
Land acquisition that is on hold.Comment: