FY 2002 Columbia Plateau proposal 25088
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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25088 Revised Proposal Budget | Response Attachment |
25088 Revised Proposal Narrative | Response Attachment |
25088 Narrative | Narrative |
25088 Sponsor Response to the ISRP | Response |
Memo from K. Weist (NPCC) to Council Members RE: Oregon Plan EMAP Presentation | Correspondence |
Section 1. Administrative
Proposal title | Salmonid Population and Habitat Monitoring in the Oregon Portion of the Columbia Plateau |
Proposal ID | 25088 |
Organization | Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) |
Proposal contact person or principal investigator | |
Name | Bruce Mcintosh And Richard W. Carmichael |
Mailing address | 28655 Highway 34 Corvallis, OR 97333 |
Phone / email | 5417574263 / Bruce.McIntosh@orst.edu |
Manager authorizing this project | Ed Bowles, ODFW Fish Division Head |
Review cycle | Columbia Plateau |
Province / Subbasin | Columbia Plateau / John Day |
Short description | Implement fish population and habitat monitoring (EMAP), steelhead life history monitoring, habitat prioritization, and fish/wildlife/habitat protection in the Oregon portion of the Columbia Plateau |
Target species | all anadromous and resident salmonids |
Project location
Latitude | Longitude | Description |
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Deschutes, John Day, Umatilla, and Walla Walla subbasins | ||
44.7863 | -118.9502 | Middle Fork John Day River near confluence with Slide Creek |
44.9888 | -118.9368 | North Fork John Day River near the town of Dale. |
44.83 | -119.82 | John Day River near the town of Spray |
44.42 | -119 | John Day River near the town of John Day |
45.1747 | -121.074 | Bakeoven Creek |
45.264 | -121.0243 | Buck Hollow Creek |
Reasonable and Prudent Alternatives (RPAs)
Sponsor-reported:
RPA |
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Action 188 |
Action 150 |
Action 174 |
Action 184 |
Action 180 |
Relevant RPAs based on NMFS/BPA review:
Reviewing agency | Action # | BiOp Agency | Description |
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NMFS | Action 184 | NMFS | The Action Agencies and NMFS shall work within regional prioritization and congressional appropriation processes to establish and provide the appropriate level of FCRPS funding for a hatchery research, monitoring, and evaluation program consisting of studies to determine whether hatchery reforms reduce the risk of extinction for Columbia River basin salmonids and whether conservation hatcheries contribute to recovery. |
NMFS | Action 180 | NMFS | The Action Agencies and NMFS shall work within regional prioritization and congressional appropriation processes to establish and provide the level of FCRPS funding to develop and implement a basinwide hierarchical monitoring program. This program shall be developed collaboratively with appropriate regional agencies and shall determine population and environmental status (including assessment of performance measures and standards) and allow ground-truthing of regional databases. A draft program including protocols for specific data to be collected, frequency of samples, and sampling sites shall be developed by September 2001. Implementation should begin no later than the spring of 2002 and will be fully implemented no later than 2003. |
NMFS | Action 154 | NMFS | BPA shall work with the NWPPC to ensure development and updating of subbasin assessments and plans; match state and local funding for coordinated development of watershed assessments and plans; and help fund technical support for subbasin and watershed plan implementation from 2001 to 2006. Planning for priority subbasins should be completed by the 2003 check-in. The action agencies will work with other Federal agencies to ensure that subbasin and watershed assessments and plans are coordinated across non-Federal and Federal land ownerships and programs. |
Section 2. Past accomplishments
Year | Accomplishment |
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2000 | Bull Trout spawning ground surveys completed annually in the Umatilla/Walla Walla subbasin since 1993, in John Day subbasin since 1998/99 and in the Deschutes subbasin since 1986. |
1999 | 19 bull trout in the Umatilla subbasin tagged with radio transmitter and tracked. Radio telemetry in the John Day subbasin as part of a BPA funded project (9405400) |
Section 3. Relationships to other projects
Project ID | Title | Description |
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RPA Action 150 | by identifying currently productive non-Federal habitat for enhanced protection through ODFWs Priority Watershed process | |
RPA Actions 174 and 184 | by developing estimates of the abundance and distribution of hatchery fish in natural production areas through counts of adult salmon spawners | |
RPA Action 180 | by determining the status and trends in fish populations and their habitats | |
RPA Action 188 | by our SAR estimates of wild salmonid stocks from the John Day subbasin. | |
NMFS' 2000 FCRPS Biological Opinion | John Day subbasin is a priority subbasin, program supports habitat protection and restoration | |
9801600 | Monitor Natural Escapement & Productivity of John Day Basin Spring Chinook | This project will be dependent upon our proposed work for an improved, statistically-based sampling design to better monitor spawner distribution of spring chinook. |
numerous completed and ongoing habitat projects | GIS data base of juvenile rearing and redd distributions supports evaluations of various habitat improvement projects in the basin. | |
199901100 | Assess Fish Habitat & Salmonids in the Walla Walla Watershed in Washington | Conducts bull trout spawning ground surveys in the Washington portion of the subbasin. Assesses the abundance and distribution of salmonids in Washington. |
200003900 | Walla Walla River Basin Monitoring and Evaluation Project | This project conducts spawning ground surveys in areas where spring chinook spawn. This overlaps in time and location with bull trout spawning areas. Information is shared between projects. |
199000501 | Umatilla River Basin Natural Production Monitoring & Evaluation Project | Bull trout collected at rotary screw trout operated by this project will be radio tagged if logistically feasible. Project staff assist with bull trout spawning ground surveys. |
198805304 | Hood River Production Program ODFW M&E | Share office space, office machines, sampling equipment, tools. |
199304000 | Fifteenmile Creek Habitat Restoration Project | Share office space, office machines, sampling equipment, tools. |
199900600 | Restoration of Riparian Habitat in Bakeoven/Deep Creeks. | Steelhead escapement, production estimates can be used to evaluate success of restoration activities. Life history information collected can be used to guide restoration activities. |
9303000 | Buck Hollow Watershed Enhancement | Steelhead escapement, production estimates can be used to evaluate success of restoration activities. Life history information collected can be used to guide restoration activities. |
9405400 | Bull Trout Life History, Genetics, Habitat needs and Limiting factors in Central and NE Oregon. Ongoing since 1994. | will share equipment and coordinate activities |
Section 4. Budget for Planning and Design phase
Task-based budget
Objective | Task | Duration in FYs | Estimated 2002 cost | Subcontractor |
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Objective 3: Determine the impact that hatchery origin steelhead spawning naturally with wild origin steelhead may have on natural production in the Deschutes subbasin. | Task 1: Obtain property easement for trapping facilities on Bakeoven and Buck Hollow creeks. | 1 | $30,000 |
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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Objective 3: Determine the impact that hatchery origin steelhead spawning naturally with wild origin steelhead may have on natural production in the Deschutes subbasin. | Task 1: Purchase, construct and install upstream migrant adult traps and weirs near the mouth of Bakeoven and Buck Hollow creeks. | 1 | $30,000 | |
3: | Task 1: Purchase, construct and install downstream migrant juvenile traps near the mouth of Bakeoven and Buck Hollow creeks. | 1 | $25,000 |
Outyear objectives-based budget
Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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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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1. Implement monitoring of the status and trends in anadromous and resident salmonid populations and their habitats | a.Habitat and Juvenile Salmonid Monitoring | ongoing | $418,800 | |
1. | Steelhead Spawner Monitoring | ongoing | $273,133 | |
2. Estimate smolt-to-adult survival rates (SAR) and management unit contributions for summer steelhead above river mile 184 in the John Day River subbasin. | a. Capture, age, and PIT tag emigrating summer steelhead smolts for SAR. | 3 | $83,182 | |
2 | b. Obtain detection information for PIT-tagged fish detected at mainstem Columbia River dam facilities. | 6 | $12,984 | |
2. | c. Establish and implement trap monitoring sites to estimate contributions of management units to smolt production. | 3 | $42,782 | |
Objective 3: Determine the impact that hatchery origin steelhead spawning naturally with wild origin steelhead may have on natural production in the Deschutes subbasin. | Task 1. Enumerate by origin all species of migratory fish captured at the adult traps and weirs in Bakeoven and Buck Hollow creeks. | 12 | $100,000 | |
3: | Task 2: Determine selected adult life history patterns for hatchery and wild origin summer steelhead escaping into the Bakeoven and Buck Hollow subbasins. Estimate age structure of adult wild and hatchery origin summer steelhead escaping to adult traps. | 12 | $50,000 | |
3: | Task 3: Examine spawning characteristics of wild and hatchery origin steelhead in Bakeoven and Buck Hollow subbasins. Estimate temporal and spatial distribution of spawning in Buck Hollow and Bakeoven creeks. Estimate mean number of fish per redd in Bu | 12 | $7,972 | |
3: | Task 4: Determine numbers of downstream migrant juvenile steelhead from Bakeoven and Buck Hollow subbasins. Estimate the abundance of downstream migrant juvenile steelhead from Bakeoven and Buck Hollow subbasins. | 12 | $100,000 | |
3: | Task 5: Determine selected life history characteristics of downstream migrant juvenile steelhead from the Bakeoven and Buck Hollow subbasins. Estimate selected morphometric characteristics, including mean fork length and mean weight of juvenile migrant | 12 | $50,000 | |
3: | Task 6: Determine the genetic structure of wild adult steelhead escaping to the Bakeoven and Buck Hollow subbasins. Estimate the genetic structure from a sample of wild adult steelhead captured at the adult migrant trapping sites in Bakeoven and Buck Ho | 12 | $25,000 | Yes |
4: Bull Trout Monitoring in the Columbia Plateau | a. Conduct bull trout spawning ground surveys in the Deschutes, John Day, Umatilla, and Walla Walla subbasins. | ongoing | $141,060 | |
4. | b: Monitor the movement patterns of fluvial bull trout in the Umatilla and John Day subbasins using radio telemetry equipment. | 2 | $110,000 | |
5. Designate priority watersheds for enhanced protection and accelerated restoration of salmonid habitats throughout the Oregon portion of the Columbia Plateau. | Collect and summarize existing habitat and fish distribution, population, and migration information. | 0.5 | $56,265 | |
5. | Using the watershed prioritization approach developed for coastal basins as a framework, develop criteria for selecting priority watersheds specific to the Columbia Plateau | 0.5 | $56,264 | |
6. Implement a new staff position to develop, implement, and evaluate programs to protect and restore fish and wildlife in the Columbia Basin. | ongoing | $115,589 | ||
7. Implement three new staff positions in the Oregon State Police-Fish and Wildlife Division to enhance enforcement and protection activities in the John Day, Deschutes, and Umatilla/Walla Walla River basins. | ongoing | $309,538 |
Outyear objectives-based budget
Objective | Starting FY | Ending FY | Estimated cost |
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1. Implement monitoring of the status and trends in anadromous and resident salmonid populations and their habitats | 2003 | 2006 | $3,131,434 |
2. Estimate smolt-to-adult survival rates (SAR) and management unit contributions for summer steelhead above river mile 184 in the John Day River subbasin. | 2003 | 2006 | $283,598 |
3. Determine the impact that hatchery origin steelhead spawning naturally with wild origin steelhead may have on natural production in the Deschutes subbasin. | 2003 | 2006 | $1,231,888 |
4. Bull Trout Monitoring in the Columbia Plateau | 2003 | 2006 | $746,783 |
5. Designate priority watersheds for enhanced protection and accelerated restoration of salmonid habitats throughout the Oregon portion of the Columbia Plateau. | 2003 | 2004 | $109,532 |
6. Implement a new staff position to develop, implement, and evaluate programs to protect and restore fish and wildlife in the Columbia Basin. | 2003 | 2006 | $523,113 |
7. Implement three new staff positions in the Oregon State Police-Fish and Wildlife Division to enhance enforcement and protection activities in the John Day, Deschutes, and Umatilla/Walla Walla River basins. | 2003 | 2006 | $1,400,855 |
Outyear budgets for Monitoring and Evaluation phase
FY 2003 | FY 2004 | FY 2005 | FY 2006 |
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$1,971,385 | $1,823,037 | $1,764,140 | $1,836,949 |
Section 8. Estimated budget summary
Itemized budget
Item | Note | FY 2002 cost |
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Personnel | $815,604 | |
Fringe | OPE varies by position (44%) | $355,446 |
Supplies | $229,371 | |
Travel | $128,100 | |
Indirect | 20.1% | $307,232 |
Capital | rotary screw traps, 3 vehicles for OSP | $164,066 |
NEPA | none | $0 |
PIT tags | # of tags: 5000 | $11,250 |
Subcontractor | University of Montana Genetics Lab | $25,000 |
Other | training | $1,500 |
$2,037,569 |
Total estimated budget
Total FY 2002 cost | $2,037,569 |
Amount anticipated from previously committed BPA funds | $0 |
Total FY 2002 budget request | $2,037,569 |
FY 2002 forecast from 2001 | $0 |
% change from forecast | 0.0% |
Cost sharing
Organization | Item or service provided | Amount | Cash or in-kind |
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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:
Do not fund unless a response adequately addresses the ISRP concerns. The basic philosophy in this proposal is one that would be useful basinwide
This proposal is fundable only if this project adequately demonstrates coordination with other monitoring and evaluation work in the Columbia Plateau. Preferably the individual projects would be joined into a cooperative project. This would include Tier 1 and 2 monitoring and evaluation in the projects: 199405400 Bull Trout Abundance Monitoring in the Lower Deschutes, 25010 Regional Stream Conditions and Stressor Evaluation, 199801600 Natural Escapement & Productivity of John Day Basin Spring Chinook. For a description of Tier 1 and 2 monitoring see the ISRP programmatic comments at beginning of the report
This proposal would implement a coordinated approach to fish population and habitat monitoring using the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds Monitoring Program. This approach has successfully been implemented in Oregon's coastal watersheds to apply a rigorous sampling design (EPA EMAP design) and has greatly improved coordination among state, federal, and tribal governments, along with local watershed groups. The proposal is consistent with the NMFS 2000 BiOp's recommendation for Tier 1 and Tier 2 monitoring.
Objectives 1 (steelhead) and 4 (bull trout) of this project should be expanded to include a comparable sampling effort for spring chinook and other resident salmonids to provide a coordinated approach for monitoring of all salmonids in the Columbia Plateau. The sampling design for bull trout in Objective 4 should employ the EPA EMP design, after perhaps some pilot work to identify boundaries of survey areas. Furthermore, these monitoring objectives should be coordinated with the stream habitat monitoring proposed in Project #25010 proposed by ODEQ. The objectives in these projects fall primarily under the Tier I and II monitoring and evaluation as envisioned by the 2000 BiOp.
Objectives 2, 3, 5, 6, and 7 should each be submitted in separate proposals before being review in the next round. They are unrelated to each other although each can make obvious use of data collected under Objectives 1 and 4. In particular, there is little justification given for need for the additional staff called for in Objectives 6 and 7.
CBFWA Funding Recommendation
High Priority/ Recommended Action
Aug 3, 2001
Comment:
This project has been split into three separate proposals identified as 25088a, 25088b, and 25088c.Comments for 25088a: Recommended Action - This proposal was submitted through the "fix-it loop" per the ISRP's request. This proposed research was originally included as Objective 5 in project proposal 25088. A specific project number has not been assigned. This proposal combined with 25010, 25069, 25084, and 199801600 address similar issues leading the reviewers to question to what degree do the collection activities represent redundancy? Funding should be delayed until coordination will insure data overlaps will be minimized. The reviewers found that the criteria, for the most part, were not appropriate for reviewing this proposal. However, the reviewers express concern about the strategies and cannot identify measurable outcomes. This project would be a companion to the subbasin planning activities and should be initiated (or considered for funding) when subbasin planning begins.
Comments for 25088b: High Priority - This proposal was submitted through the "fix-it loop" per the ISRP's request . This proposed research was originally included as Objective 7 in project proposal 25088. This proposal has not been assigned a specific project number. An RPA does not exist for this proposal. This proposal will allow for increased enforcement on private lands. Presently, the only sites where enforcement occurs are those for which a complaint has been filed. Enforcement capabilities in the Columbia Plateau South have recently reduced due to the elimination of six employees. Reviewers indicate that there appears to be a lack of coordination among enforcement proposals. The CTWSRO, ODFW, and CTUIR need to meet and coordinate prior to funding. This project poses an in-lieu issue. If funded, this project should be held to the same standards as the two existing conservation enforcement projects currently being funded under the fish and wildlife program.
Comments for 25088c: High Priority - The proposal, which specifically addresses NMFS RPA 179, 182, and 184, was submitted through the "fix-it loop" per the ISRP's request . The proposed research was originally included as Objective 3 in project proposal 25088. A specific project number has not been assigned. Coordination must occur between ODFW and CTWSRO prior to funding.
Comment:
Fundable, adequate response. An interagency monitoring coordination committee responsible for tier 2 monitoring in Oregon will integrate this project with other projects monitoring escapements, water quality. The ISRP strongly endorses this coordination. This proposal would implement a coordinated approach to fish population and habitat monitoring using the Oregon Plan for Salmon and Watersheds Monitoring Program. This approach has successfully been implemented in Oregon's coastal watersheds to apply a rigorous sampling design (EPA EMAP design) and has greatly improved coordination among state, federal, and tribal governments, along with local watershed groups. The proposal is consistent with the NMFS 2000 BiOp's recommendation for Tier 1 and Tier 2 monitoring.Comment:
Statement of Potential Biological Benefit to ESUN/A
Comments
These tasks primarily include law enforcement and ODFW administrative work. They may well be important, but fall less under the purview of monitoring.
Already ESA Req? no
Biop? no
Comment:
Statement of Potential Biological Benefit to ESUWould provide information concerning the impact of hatchery fish on a wild steelhead population in the Deschutes Basin. This information would allow more effective recovery planning and implementation of management actions.
Comments
This objective is a worthwhile goal. However, the design proposed will have relatively low power, and the number of sample sites will nearly certainly need to be increased to detect significant differences. This type of study, including before/after data collection and control/treatment areas is tremendously important, but this particular study is unlikely to provide robust information. In addition, there is a huge quantity of disparate data/types of work being done, that could be much better coordinated. If the experimental design for objective 3 can be improved, this is a reasonable and worthwhile project.
Already ESA Req? no
Biop? yes
Comment:
Statement of Potential Biological Benefit to ESUAllows more accurate assessment of population status and habitat conditions, as well as collection of baseline data in the Columbia Plateau Province. This in turn, will allow more effective recovery planning, by providing necessary information for targeting actions.
Comments
These are important objectives. However, they should be should be explicitly coordinated with NMFS and other agencies; currently ODFW has been working with NMFS, BoR and several other agencies to create a comprehensive M and E program for the John Day Basin --this is important work and should be strongly supported.
Already ESA Req? no
Biop? yes
Comment:
Statement of Potential Biological Benefit to ESUThis task includes collection and organization of habitat information across the Columbia Plateau. Such data compilation will allow more effective targeting of management actions and provide information important for TRT and other analyses
Comments
The administrative aspect of this task -- identifying priority watersheds -- is probably a low priority for NMFS. However, the data collection and organization that accompanies this project has the potential to be extremely useful to the subbasin assessment and TRT processes. This aspect should be supported.
Already ESA Req? no
Biop? yes
Comment:
Statement of Potential Biological Benefit to ESUN/A
Comments
Relevant for resident fish ESA concerns -- should be highlighted by FWS
Already ESA Req? N/A
Biop? no
Comment:
This project should not be funded, either in its original entirety or as the daughter projects that were broken out during the ISRP fix-it loop. The project should not be funded because:- It is a large and expensive ($2.0 mill.) aggregation of relatively unrelated objectives that should have been submitted as separate projects. This is essentially an omnibus funding proposal (not a unified umbrella program proposal), which should be discouraged by the Council, ISRP, and BPA. It was “dissolved” in the fix-it loop. Council staff has still not been able to interpret what parts of the original proposal the ISRP considered “Fundable,” and the CBFWA funding recommendations are not consistent with its own rearrangement of the objectives.
- The objectives are not adequately described and justified. For example, Objective 1 involves complex and costly ($682K in FY02 alone) monitoring that is described by a mere two paragraphs in the proposal narrative. References cited in those two paragraphs also are not very informative. Objective 7 (3 new enforcement officers, $310K in FY02) receives only seven lines of description/justification. The current Council/ISRP/BPA project solicitation and selection process was meant to ensure that funded projects are supported by thorough, professional-quality proposals. This proposal is very inadequate and should not be funded, especially in the amount requested.
- The proposal does not adequately describe how its work would be integrated with the several existing and new monitoring programs within the same agency (e.g., steelhead spawning ground surveys), with sister agencies (e.g., ODEQ’s proposal #25010 and the current EPA-funded project in the John Day), or with other ongoing and overlapping monitoring (e.g., CTUIR projects in the Umatilla and Walla Walla). At present, there appears to be considerable redundancy with other work, and we may have more M&E work going on in some subbasins than is useful or necessary.
- The sponsor does not propose cost sharing and states in the budget summary of this $2.0 million proposal that cost sharing is “not applicable.” Oregon is supporting the Oregon Plan sampling (analogous to Objective 1 in this proposal) in coastal streams, why not in the interior? The sponsor is presently funding some monitoring (e.g., steelhead spawning ground surveys) that is proposed for BPA funding through this project. Would this project replace or duplicate the state-funded work? Under objective 7 (3 new OSP officers), the sponsor does not describe the need or the incremental benefit that the additional officers would generate for the FWP. The Council and BPA should expect cost-share and better financial justification from the sponsor for big and expensive projects like this.
Comment:
Projects 25088, 199405400 and 199801600 -- Monitoring activities in the Columbia Plateau south subbasins.
In its original proposal for project 25088, ODFW had proposed a number of tasks that appeared to ISRP to have no relation to each other. One aspect was a Deschutes Steelhead Stray Study, an advanced anadromous monitoring and evaluation study that formed the basis of Oregon's statewide monitoring, a bull trout monitoring and evaluation component similar to the anadromous study, and a law enforcement component. ISRP requested that the project be broken up into its logical components and appended to or coordinated with currently ongoing and complimentary projects. The sponsors complied with the ISRP request.
Tasks originally included in 25088 spread into two existing projects as follows: the bull trout EMAP monitoring and evaluation component was added into project 199405400 and the anadromous EMAP monitoring and evaluation component of 25088 was added to project 199801600, resulting in a 628.7% increase in the existing 199801600 project budget over the FY 2001 forecast. The sponsors had compartmentalized the steelhead stray study and the law enforcement project, but the new projects were not assigned new numbers, and instead simply entitled the various components 25088a (the steelhead study), 25088b (a research study that was supported by CBFWA only as a Recommended Action), and 25088c (the law enforcement component).
ODFW dropped project 25088b due to lack of consensus. CBFWA supported the assignment of the anadromous tasks to 199801600, the bull trout tasks to 199405400, and the steelhead stray study of 25088a. The managers supported the law enforcement project 25088c, but with reservations that it presented an in lieu issue, and needed coordination with other managers.
The ISRP has reviewed the various components of the original 25088 project. Though the panel supported that proposal, they left no indication of their intentions with the other projects.
Staff recommendation: 25088a is primarily a research study with monitoring and assessment elements. As such, it would fall under the Council criteria as a disfavored category of new or expanded research initiatives.
The Council must determine the funding priorities for law enforcement projects. NMFS has not identified project 25088c as implementing the Biological Opinion, so the project meets only the collaboratively developed criteria. The Council has funded other law enforcement projects and has another proposal pending in the Umatilla subbasin. These projects, if funded, should be coordinated and held to the same reporting standards as previously funded law enforcement projects.
Project 199801600 is an ongoing project with a greatly expanded scope based upon the ISRP recommendation to join the evaluation work proposed in the original 25088 into a cooperative project. The Council would fund the ongoing work under General Issue 2 (the funding criteria) .
The new work in project 199801600 would appear to be assessment type of activities that would aid the Council in subbasin planning under the Program. The John Day is also a priority subbasin for the Bureau of Reclamation and the Bureau has been actively pursuing development of a monitoring program funded by Bonneville in the John Day to complement the Action Agencies' Biological Opinion responsibilities. Staff believes these new activities will help the Action Agencies address their monitoring and evaluation responsibilities under the Biological Opinion.
Staff recommends that the monitoring in the John Day should be a coordinated effort and that Bonneville is correct in the need to coordinate these activities. The Council should emphasize the need for coordination through the BPA contracting process.
Budget effect on base program (Project 25088*):
FY 2002 | FY 2003 | FY 2004 |
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No effect | No effect | No effect |
Budget effect on base program (Project 199801600):
FY 2002 | FY 2003 | FY 2004 |
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Increase $904,931 | Increase $891,980 | Increase $922,475 |
*The budget represents funding for the steelhead stray project, referred to as 25088a, and does not reflect the project associated with law enforcement, referred to as 25088c.