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Assessment Summary

View the details of the Council Recommendation for this project as part of the 2013 Geographic Category Review.

NPCC Assessment 1988-022-00-NPCC-20131125
Assessment Number: 1988-022-00-NPCC-20131125
Project: 1988-022-00 - Umatilla Fish Passage Operations
Review: 2013 Geographic Category Review
Proposal: GEOREV-1988-022-00
Proposal State: Pending BPA Response
Approved Date: 11/5/2013
Recommendation: Implement with Conditions
Comments: Implement with condition through FY 2018: Bonneville and sponsor to address ISRP qualification regarding progress reports in contracting and in future reviews. See Programmatic Issue and Recommendation And Recommendation C for long term maintenance.
Conditions:
Council Condition #1 ISRP Qualification: Qualification #1—Bonneville and sponsor to address ISRP qualification regarding progress reports in contracting and in future reviews.
Council Condition #2 ISRP Qualification: Qualification #2—Bonneville and sponsor to address ISRP qualification regarding progress reports in contracting and in future reviews.
Council Condition #3 Part 4: Council explanations addressing the formal requirements of Section 4h(10)(D) of the Northwest Power Act

Explanations as to how the Council responded to the recommendations of the Independent Scientific Review Panel

Umatilla Fish Passage Operations (Project #1988-022-00). The ISRP concluded that this project meets scientific review criteria with two qualifications that “should be addressed in contracting and in future reviews.” The first qualification, concerning monitoring and progress reports, the Council did include as a condition on the recommendation for funding. The ISRP’s second qualification was that “[c]ollection of adult salmon and steelhead selected for use as broodstock should continue to follow the Hatchery Scientific Review Group’s (HSRG) guidelines for the Umatilla and Walla Walla subbasins.” (To explain, the project not only provides for coordination and operation of passage facilities and other measures to provide adequate passage conditions, it also “is responsible for collecting broodstock for the Umatilla production program and adult return data for the Umatilla River.”) The project sponsor currently operates consistent with the HSRG guidelines. The Council has no reason to believe that it will not continue to do so, and the ISRP is free to inquire about it in future reviews. But the Council decided not to impose this qualification as a requirement in contracting. The issue of the HSRG guidelines as imposed requirements versus best practices guidelines is an issue at play in the process to amend the Council’s program that is in progress (as of October 2013).