FY 2001 Innovative proposal 22008

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
22008 Narrative	Narrative

Section 1. Administrative

Proposal title	Evaluate and compare the effects of nutrient supplementation from carcasses and fertilizer on fish growth and survival and lower trophic levels.
Proposal ID	22008
Organization	Utah State University (USU)
Proposal contact person or principal investigator
Name	Phaedra Budy And Chris Luecke
Mailing address	Utah State University, Utah Cooperative Fish and Wildlife Unit Logan, Utah 84322-5290
Phone / email	4357977564 / Phaedra.Budy@CNR.USU.edu
Manager authorizing this project	Michel R. Lewis, Director, Contract Office
Review cycle	FY 2001 Innovative
Province / Subbasin	Mountain Snake / Salmon
Short description	Evaluate the relative effectiveness of inroganic fertilizer and carcass introductions in increasing fish growth and survival (anadromous and resident fish) and track and understand the relative importance of different pathways of energy transfer.
Target species	chinook, steelhead, bulltrout, and cutthroat

Project location

Latitude	Longitude	Description
45.3783	-115.5122	South Fork Salmon River

Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives (RPAs)

Sponsor-reported:

RPA

Relevant RPAs based on NMFS/BPA review:

Reviewing agency	Action #	BiOp Agency	Description

Section 2. Past accomplishments

Year	Accomplishment

Section 3. Relationships to other projects

Project ID	Title	Description

Section 4. Budget for Planning and Design phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2001 cost	Subcontractor

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost

Outyear budgets for Planning and Design phase

Section 5. Budget for Construction and Implementation phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2001 cost	Subcontractor

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost

Outyear budgets for Construction and Implementation phase

Section 6. Budget for Operations and Maintenance phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2001 cost	Subcontractor

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost

Outyear budgets for Operations and Maintenance phase

Section 7. Budget for Monitoring and Evaluation phase

Task-based budget

Objective	Task	Duration in FYs	Estimated 2001 cost	Subcontractor

Outyear objectives-based budget

Objective	Starting FY	Ending FY	Estimated cost

Outyear budgets for Monitoring and Evaluation phase

Section 8. Estimated budget summary

Itemized budget

Item	Note	FY 2001 cost
Personnel	FTE: 2 PI's 30% ea, 1 PM 30%, 4 techs 100% ea	$153,724
Fringe	@12%, 38.5%, & 39%	$18,514
Supplies	includes fertilizer and fertilizer equipment	$91,489
Travel	includes on-site housing in travel trailers	$8,000
Indirect	@ 39% Audited Rate	$105,973
Capital	none, travel includes on-site housing in trailers	$0
PIT tags		$0
Subcontractor		$0
Other		$0
		$377,700

Total estimated budget

Total FY 2001 cost	$377,700
Total FY 2001 budget request	$377,700

Cost sharing

Organization	Item or service provided	Amount	Cash or in-kind

Reviews and recommendations

This information was not provided on the original proposals, but was generated during the review process.

REVIEW:
ISRP Review (ISRP 2000-10)

Recommendation:
Yes - B

Date:
Dec 15, 2000

Comment:

This is marginally innovative in that it has not been done in the Columbia River Basin. This proposal intends to analyze carcasses versus inorganic nutrients. Utah's contribution to the nutrient addition experiments call includes a comparison of carcass and inorganic nutrient additions in a controlled and treated field trial over two years. However, the comparison may be confounded by the difference in time of placement of carcasses (fall) and inorganic N and P (spring and summer, assumed). Little evidence of a nutrient limitation was provided (i.e., evidence that N and/or P was at low or undetectable ppm). The detailed invertebrate work is probably unnecessary if the target is smolt yield or resident fish growth and abundance. Recent literature on nutrient briquettes and British Columbia studies, including work published ten years ago, was not referenced.